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Campus & Community
A real sense of belonging
The incoming Harvard Alumni Association president aims to continue the people-centered leadership of her predecessor.
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Campus & Community
Departing as leaders
Six Harvard seniors received inducted into the armed forces at the annual ROTC commissioning ceremony.
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Arts & Culture
A concentration’s first growth spurt
As Harvard’s Theater, Dance & Media specialty turns 2 this spring, it graduates its first concentrators.
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Campus & Community
For graduate the numbers add up
Daniel Schlauch is looking to put his talents with numbers to work fighting cancer.
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Campus & Community
Centennial Medals awarded by GSAS
Graduate School of Arts and Sciences awards the Centennial Medal to four outstanding alumni whose contributions to knowledge, to their disciplines, to their colleagues, and to society have made a fundamental and lasting impact.
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Campus & Community
Announcing 2017-18 Radcliffe Institute Fellows
Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study introduces its new class of fellows for 2017-18.
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Campus & Community
The bells are ringing
For the 29th consecutive year, neighboring churches and institutions will ring their bells at the conclusion of Harvard’s 366th Commencement Exercises.
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Campus & Community
Emerging challenges in digital higher ed
The team at Harvard’s Vice Provost for Advances in Learning Research hosted digital-learning practitioners from around the nation to discuss common challenges in their work.
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Campus & Community
The gift of the art of noticing
Graduating seniors gathered in the Memorial Church for the Baccalaureate Service, a tradition as old as Commencement.
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Campus & Community
At PBK ceremony, a call to empathy
Sherry Turkle was the orator during Phi Beta Kappa Literary Exercises Tuesday at Sanders Theatre. She was joined by poet and memoirist Mark Doty.
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Campus & Community
A Ugandan border official, redefined
Agnes Igoye brought her fight to end human trafficking from Uganda to Harvard’s Kennedy School.
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Campus & Community
Birth of a peaceful Europe
On June 5, 1947, Secretary of State George C. Marshall stood on the steps of Memorial Church and delivered an address that changed the world. The retired five-star general, credited during World War II with organizing the fastest and biggest military buildup in U.S. history, took just under 11 minutes to announce the creation of…
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Campus & Community
Meet the student orators
Three student orators, Auguste (Gussie) Roc, Jessica Glueck, and Walter Smelt III, were chosen in a speech-writing competition to address Harvard’s Class of 2017.
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Campus & Community
Being true to himself
Damon Clark ’17 will graduate with a greater knowledge of Navajo history and culture and a renewed pride in his indigenous identity.
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Campus & Community
Forging her path through different worlds
At Harvard Divinity School, Margaux Fitoussi explored migration as it echoed from her childhood and as it afflicts worlds far from hers.
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Campus & Community
Books on repeat
The Gazette asked a few Harvard faculty to talk about the book that they have reread the most and why they keep coming back.
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Campus & Community
2017 Election Results: Harvard Overseers and HAA Elected Directors
Harvard University today announced the results of the annual elections of new members to the Board of Overseers and of the Harvard Alumni Association Elected Directors.
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Campus & Community
Grants back study-abroad initiatives in Italy, Canada
Plans for immersive student experiences in Canada’s far north and in Italy received grants from the President’s Innovation Fund for International Experiences.
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Campus & Community
Seminal speeches through the years
An impressive range of orators have used the opportunity of delivering seminal speeches at Harvard, reaching not only those in attendance but the nation and sometimes the world.
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Campus & Community
Eduard Sekler, Carpenter Center’s inaugural director, dead at 96
Eduard Franz Sekler, an architecture historian and first director of the Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, has died. He was 96.
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Campus & Community
Speaking the language of sympathy
Bennett Capozzi ’17, a History & Literature concentrator with a Language Citation in Arabic, will travel to Jordan to master the language he learned at Harvard.
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Campus & Community
Stepping down and speaking up
In an interview with the Gazette, Harvard Law School Dean Martha Minow reflects on her eight years leading the School.
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Health
Closing in on a breakthrough
New findings from the lab of Harvard Medical School Dean George Daley suggest a path for creating immune-matched blood cells, derived from patients’ own cells, for treatment purposes.
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Campus & Community
Learning to let it fly
In her last piece before graduating, student correspondent Amanda Beattie ’17 reflects on the lessons she and her friends have learned in their four years as Harvard undergraduates.
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Campus & Community
Sanes receives Gruber Neuroscience Prize
Joshua R. Sanes, the Jeff C. Tarr Professor of Molecular and Cellular Biology and founding director of the Center for Brain Science, has been named recipient of the 2017 Gruber Neuroscience Prize.
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Arts & Culture
Tango with a serious message
“Arrabal,” a new American Repertory Theater show with a book by Harvard graduate John Weidman explores the brutal years of Argentina’s military dictatorship through tango and music.
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Campus & Community
Afternoon of Engagement offered personal anecdotes, suggestions
The Presidential Task Force on Inclusion and Belonging’s campus-wide event provided questions, answers, and insight.
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Arts & Culture
Reviving the Philosophy Chamber
A new exhibit at Harvard Art Museums re-creates the Philosophy Chamber, located in Harvard Hall in the late 18th and early 19th centuries.
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Campus & Community
‘There was just no way I was going to do what everyone else did’
Interview with Professor Pamela Silver as part of the Experience series.
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Campus & Community
Making rhyme and reason speak for him
Obasi Shaw ’17, an English concentrator with a secondary on computer science, wrote a rap album for his senior creative writing thesis, a first at the Department of English.
