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Campus & Community
Crossing disciplines, finding knowledge
At Harvard, many centers, courses, and collaborations maintain a sharp focus on the intellect, but they increasingly also are working to address everyday issues in life, and they’re crossing academic boundaries to do so more effectively.
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Campus & Community
Graduating to a life in service
Four Harvard seniors received their military assignments on Wednesday before family and friends during the Reserve Officers’ Training Corps commissioning ceremony in Tercentenary Theatre.
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Campus & Community
Harvard College deanship named
The Harvard College deanship will be renamed the Danoff Dean of Harvard College, in recognition of the longtime dedication of Ami Kuan Danoff ’84 and William A. Danoff ’82, and their most recent generosity in support of Harvard College and House renewal.
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Campus & Community
Why I volunteer for Harvard …
While most Harvard journeys start on campus, they rarely end there. More than 10,000 College alumni give back as steadfast volunteers, in more ways than one. Four alumni share why they dedicate their time and energy to Harvard.
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Campus & Community
Courage is rooted in knowledge, Faust tells seniors
Harvard president bids Class of ’15 farewell at Baccalaureate, telling members they should resist the call to be ruled by fear, even though it floods society.
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Campus & Community
Deep into the past
Harvard’s traditional Phi Beta Kappa Literary Exercises showcased gifted graduates, gifted teachers, gifted members of the Class of 1965, and a poet and orator who both looked to the past to call up lessons for the future.
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Campus & Community
Innovation and immersion overseas
Grants from the President’s Innovation Fund for International Experiences are helping faculty members plan and develop a suite of new study-abroad experiences for students.
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Campus & Community
A historical honor
Harvard’s honorary degree recipients span history, with Benjamin Franklin, Helen Keller, John F. Kennedy, and Nelson Mandela being just a few among the hundreds over the past 364 commencements.
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Nation & World
Reflections on the Marshall Plan
Former U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger reflects on predecessor George C. Marshall’s Commencement address at Harvard in 1947, which extended America’s hand to a battered Europe and, in so doing, helped to create a stable postwar order and an inclusive, long-term U.S. foreign policy.
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Campus & Community
My lasting Harvard memory
Samantha Noh ’15 shares her memorable Harvard moment, connecting to a distant student past as part of the Yard archaeology digs .
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Campus & Community
Words as well as drawings
The Graduate School of Design’s Héctor Tarrido-Picart, who earned two degrees, is drawn to bustling cities, and to the literature that defines them.
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Campus & Community
100 years of Widener
The massive library, which rose after the Titanic sank, remains a linchpin of learning and conservation at Harvard.
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Campus & Community
Where football meets astrophysics
Michael Mancinelli ’15 found that at Harvard he could anchor an offensive line and immerse himself in electrical engineering at the same time.
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Campus & Community
Commencement traditions and facts
Test your knowledge of Commencement facts and traditions.
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Campus & Community
A onetime refugee aims high
When she graduates from the Kennedy School with her master’s, onetime refugee Fadumo Dayib plans to run for president of Somalia, her homeland.
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Campus & Community
Photographs and memories
Every Commencement at Harvard, the Yard fills with graduates and their families celebrating. But look closely in the front row, and you’ll see another jovial gathering. Press photographers from all over the region flock to the Yard to immortalize the regalia and traditions in Tercentenary Theatre. For the Boston press corps, noted for its collegiality,…
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Campus & Community
Ode to a venerable library
Narrated by John Lithgow ’67, this visual love letter to libraries celebrates books and those who watch over them while marking the 100th anniversary of the opening of the Harry Elkins Widener Memorial Library, Harvard’s flagship library.
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Campus & Community
Finding HARMONY
HARMONY — one of Phillips Brooks House Association’s more than 70 volunteer programs — provides instrumental and vocal instruction for children in the Cambridge Public Schools.
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Health
Confronting the creep of opioid abuse
Specialists in care and policy came together at the Harvard Chan School to trade ideas on combating opioid abuse.
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Campus & Community
When your calling comes calling
Megan Diamond took a few years to decide on a path in public health. After working overseas investigating health in Africa, the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health graduate is looking forward to continuing her work in global health.
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Arts & Culture
Down the rabbit hole at Houghton
“Such A Curious Dream! Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland” is on view from May 20 through Sept. 5 at Houghton Library.
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Campus & Community
United in grief and action
Harvard students with ties to Nepal have joined a multicampus response to the devastation wrought by two major earthquakes.
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Campus & Community
Ahead of her time
Saheela Ibraheem has always been ahead of her time and is graduating from Harvard College this spring at just 20, a neurobiology concentrator who is looking forward to pursuing a career in academia.
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Campus & Community
Strong enrollment for Class of 2019
Nearly 81 percent of the students admitted to the Class of 2019 plan to enroll in August. Last year, 80.9 percent matriculated; 81 percent did so the year before. The last time Harvard’s yield on admitted students reached these levels was 1969 for the Class of 1973.
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Science & Tech
Why more ‘hotspots’ aren’t so cool
A new study published today in the Journal of Applied Ecology reports that the number of ecosystem hotspots in Massachusetts has increased over the past decade, with more and more popping up in metro Boston.
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Arts & Culture
A movie as a mirror
Three young Harvard alumni explain the genesis and the process of their making the hit film “Whiplash.”
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Campus & Community
Seal of approval
Harvard’s motto, Veritas, has a long — and for two centuries, invisible — history.
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Campus & Community
A new dean for SEAS
Francis J. Doyle III, a distinguished scholar in chemical engineering at the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB), has been appointed the next dean of the Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) and will take the reins on Aug. 1.
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Health
Changing the way genomes work
In the Wyss Institute’s inaugural podcast “Disruptive,” host Terrence McNally spoke with Pamela Silver and George Church about today’s breakthroughs in technology and modifications to an organism’s genome that can be conducted more cheaply, efficiently, and effectively than ever before.
