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  • Campus & Community

    Asia Center to support summer travel for 75 students

    This summer, the Asia Center will fund 75 students traveling to east, south, and southeast Asia to conduct research, participate in internships, and pursue intensive language study.

  • Campus & Community

    William von Eggers Doering

    At a Meeting of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences on May 1, 2012, the Minute honoring the life and service of the late William von Eggers Doering, Mallinckrodt Professor of Chemistry, Emeritus, was placed upon the records. Time called Professor Doering’s synthesis of quinine “one of the greatest scientific achievements in a century.”

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    Oleg Grabar

    At a Meeting of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences on May 1, 2012, the Minute honoring the life and service of the late Oleg Grabar, Aga Khan Professor of Islamic Art, Emeritus, was placed upon the records. Professor Grabar was one of Islamic art and architecture’s most influential and insightful scholars.

  • Arts & Culture

    Exhibit honors influential Harvardians

    The Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies (Villa I Tatti) in Florence, Italy, has announced a new online exhibition, “Berenson and Harvard: Bernard and Mary as Students,” opening June 4.

  • Campus & Community

    Dynamic partners

    A longtime partnership at the Radcliffe Institute pairs students and fellows on a range of scholarly projects and research.

  • Campus & Community

    A time was had by all

    A fond look back at the memorable events of Harvard’s 375th year.

  • Campus & Community

    Clowning around, with purpose

    Laura Ricci, who is receiving a master’s degree from the Graduate School of Education, has a long background as a professional therapeutic clown in a children’s hospital.

  • Campus & Community

    Applications open for Australia-Harvard Fellowships

    The Harvard Club of Australia Foundation is accepting applications for its 2013 Australia-Harvard Fellowship program.

  • Campus & Community

    A poem for Harvard

    Seamus Heaney, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature, returns to Harvard to read a poem at Morning Exercises. As Harvard celebrates its 375th anniversary, he will reprise his 1986 “Villanelle for an Anniversary,” composed for the University’s 350th.

  • Campus & Community

    Sharing the Harvard experience

    Outgoing Harvard Alumni Association (HAA) President Ellen Gordon Reeves, A.B. ’83, Ed.M. ’86, will be leaving the HAA in good hands as she prepares to pass the baton to Carl Muller, A.B. ’73, J.D. ’76, M.B.A. ’76.

  • Campus & Community

    Degrees of success

    A breakdown of degrees awarded at Harvard’s 361st Commencement.

  • Campus & Community

    Radcliffe recognizes top theses

    The Captain Jonathan Fay Prize is awarded annually to the graduating Harvard College senior who has produced the most imaginative work or original research in any field.

  • Campus & Community

    Hoffman, Beerbohm win teaching prize

    Physicist Jenny Hoffman and political theorist Eric Beerbohm have won the Roslyn Abramson Award, given annually to assistant or associate professors for excellence in undergraduate teaching.

  • Campus & Community

    Home is where one starts out

    A student from Australia, far from home and legally blind, found her niche by singing in the Memorial Church choir.

  • Campus & Community

    The scene builder at Commencement

    For 20 years, Commencement Director Grace Scheibner has been responsible for the detailed planning and execution of the Harvard Commencement Morning Exercises.

  • Nation & World

    Ahead of the learning curve

    From the $40 million Hauser gift to support teaching and learning initiatives to the recent announcement of the global online platform edX, Harvard tackled the future of higher education head-on in 2011-12. As the University’s 375th anniversary draws to a close, the Gazette asked some prescient professors: “What’s the one big idea that will transform…

  • Campus & Community

    Reischauer Institute funds student research, travel in Japan

    Founded in 1973, the Edwin O. Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies promotes research on Japan and brings together Harvard faculty, students, leading scholars from other institutions, and visitors to create one of the world’s leading communities for the study of Japan.

  • Campus & Community

    Korea Institute funds Korea-focused research, study, and work

    The Korea Institute at Harvard University promotes the study of Korea and brings together faculty, students, scholars, and visitors to create a leading Korean studies community at Harvard.

  • Campus & Community

    You’re all right, lefty

    On the baseball diamond, senior Brent Suter serves up pitches, and off the field he pitches service.

  • Campus & Community

    HAA announces Harvard Medalists

    The Harvard Alumni Association (HAA) has named Charles W. Collier, Ellen R. and Melvin J. Gordon, Harry L. Parker, and Susan S. Wallach the recipients of the 2012 Harvard Medal.

  • Campus & Community

    Center for European Studies funds undergraduate research

    The Center for European Studies recently announced its 2011-12 student grant winners, continuing its long tradition of promoting and funding student research on political, historical, economic, social, cultural, and intellectual trends in modern or contemporary Europe.

  • Campus & Community

    GSAS honors its leading alumni

    The Centennial Medal is the highest honor awarded by the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, given annually during Commencement week to celebrate the achievements of a select group of Harvard University’s most accomplished alumni.

  • Campus & Community

    Eight receive honorary degrees

    Journalist Fareed Zakari, who was chosen as the principal speaker at the Afternoon Exercises, is among those to be presented an honoroary degree at Harvard’s 361st Commencement.

  • Campus & Community

    O, hear the bells

    A joyous peal of bells will ring throughout Cambridge today. In celebration of the city of Cambridge and of the country’s oldest university — and of our earlier history when bells of varying tones summoned us from sleep to prayer, work or study — this ancient yet new sound will fill Harvard Square and the…

  • Campus & Community

    A Class Day doubleheader

    At Class Day, U.S. Rep. Barney Frank ’61, J.D. ’77, and comedian Andy Samberg offered words of wisdom and wit to Harvard’s graduating Class of 2012.

  • Campus & Community

    In full regalia, and ready to regale

    This year’s accomplished trio of Commencement orators draws inspiration from diverse sources, from the late Rev. Peter J. Gomes to Japanese haiku to the Latin inscription on Dexter Gate.

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    Award honors beloved mentor

    Students and faculty celebrated the inauguration of the Arthur P. Dempster Award. The award recognizes promising graduate students in the Statistics Department, especially those working in theoretical and foundational statistics.

  • Arts & Culture

    A.R.T. reaps Tony Awards notice

    Diane Paulus, artistic director of the American Repertory Theater (A.R.T.), and her reimagined production of “Porgy and Bess” nabbed 10 Tony Award nominations, and another musical with ties to the A.R.T. grabbed 11.

  • Campus & Community

    Finnegan elected to Corporation

    Paul J. Finnegan, A.B. ’75, M.B.A. ’82, a widely admired member of the University’s Board of Overseers, past president of the Harvard Alumni Association, and co-CEO of a leading Chicago-based investment firm, has been elected to become the newest member of the Harvard Corporation, the University announced May 23.

  • Campus & Community

    Stepping up

    A day before graduating, four Harvard seniors receive their military commissions.