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  • Campus & Community

    Commencement Week: The long winding train

    These photographs offer a tribute to the women and men of the Class of 2011, who become the most recent link in the “long winding train” of Harvard graduates.

  • Campus & Community

    Faculty invited to seek January grants

    This summer, Harvard faculty may want to start thinking about proposals for the President’s January Innovation Fund for Faculty, which begins accepting new applications on Sept. 1. Launched last year, the fund provides grants to faculty across Harvard for the development and implementation of creative learning experiences for students during Winter Break.

  • Health

    ADHD linked to substance abuse risk

    In a long-term study by Harvard researchers, data support the association between childhood ADHD and substance abuse risk.

  • Arts & Culture

    A.R.T. nabs six Elliot Norton Awards

    The 2011 Elliot Norton Awards, awarded on May 23 at the Paramount Theatre in Boston, honored the American Repertory Theater (A.R.T.) with six awards in the Large Theater category.

  • Nation & World

    Schools of the future

    Drawing on their experience as young educators and designers, students from two very different disciplines joined forces to create fresh concepts for daily learning.

  • Campus & Community

    ACLS honors students, grads, faculty

    Current Harvard students, recent graduates, and two professors are among those recently awarded fellowships and grants by the American Council of Learned Societies.

  • Campus & Community

    When traditions gave way to war

    The Class of 1941 returned to Harvard for its 70th reunion, with its defining war and its youth long past. Graduate John Ambrose recalls the times.

  • Nation & World

    Transforming from within

    Ela Bhatt, a lead women’s organizer in India, spoke about social change and personal transformation on Radcliffe Day.

  • Campus & Community

    A difficult journey, a brighter future

    In her Commencement address, Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf says her Harvard graduate studies put her on the path to the success. She urged degree recipients to be fearless and to embrace their failures as they forge their paths in life.

  • Campus & Community

    Moments that make Commencement

    After weeks of rain and cold, Harvard ended the 2010-11 year on a postcard-perfect day of azure skies and warming breezes. Most of the focus was on the speeches and rituals of Tercentenary Theatre, of course. But all across Harvard Yard, where graduating students, faculty, families, and friends gathered, there were thousands of magical moments…

  • Campus & Community

    Overseers 2011 election results

    The president of the Harvard Alumni Association (HAA) today (May 26) announced the results of the annual election of new members of the Harvard Board of Overseers. The results were released at the annual meeting of the association following the University’s 360th Commencement.

  • Campus & Community

    Text of Ellen Johnson Sirleaf’s speech

    H.E. Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, president of the Republic of Liberia, delivered her address at the Afternoon Exercises at Harvard’s 360th Commencement on May 26, 2011.

  • Nation & World

    Accompanying the underserved

    “The road from policy development to implementation is usually long and rocky, one that must be trod with companions,” Paul Farmer, University Professor and co-founder of Partners In Health, told Harvard Kennedy School graduates on May 25.

  • Campus & Community

    Degrees, certificates awarded

    Today the University awarded a total of 7,147 degrees and 70 certificates. Harvard College granted a total of 1,556 degrees.

  • Campus & Community

    CES announces student grant winners

    The Center for European Studies has 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

    John Lemuel Bethune

    John Lemuel Bethune received his Ph.D. in 1961 and moved to Boston and Harvard Medical School to join the Biophysics Research Laboratory under the direction of Bert Vallee and located in the Peter Bent Brigham Hospital.

  • Campus & Community

    Asia Center to support summer travel for 68 students

    The Harvard University Asia Center was established in 1997 to reflect Harvard’s deep commitment to Asia and the growing connections between Asian nations.

  • Campus & Community

    South Asia Initiative

    Since its inception in 2003, the South Asia Initiative continues the long tradition of collaboration between Harvard and South Asia’s nations.

  • Campus & Community

    Strong voices

    The Radcliffe Institute on May 27 will honor Ela Bhatt, founder of the Self Employed Women’s Association of India, with the Radcliffe Institute Medal. Bhatt’s organization has improved the self-sufficiency of more than a million women.

  • Campus & Community

    A lifelong learner

    When Ethel Stafford halted her education to raise her children, she didn’t shed tears. She knew she would return to her studies. At age 60, she graduates from the Extension School with a bachelor’s and plans for a new career.

  • Campus & Community

    Speaking for their class, to the world

    Two Harvard College seniors and a Harvard Kennedy School student carry on the tradition of Commencement orations, given in English and in Latin.

  • Campus & Community

    Thoughtful leadership

    Marcel Moran ’11 of Eliot House and Annie Douglas ’12 of Adams House have been named this year’s David and Mimi Aloian Memorial Scholars.

  • Campus & Community

    Center for Jewish Studies awards seniors

    The Center for Jewish Studies at Harvard University has announced the recipients of the 2011 Norman Podhoretz Prize in Jewish Studies and the 2011 Selma and Lewis Weinstein Prize in Jewish Studies.

  • Campus & Community

    Two colleges, quiet times

    Harvard and Radcliffe were very different places 50 years ago, but the bonds that tie members of the Class of ’61 to Cambridge remain strong.

  • Campus & Community

    A degree delivered

    Harvard awards degree to Native American who completed studies in 1665 but died before Commencement.

  • Campus & Community

    Miller wins Radcliffe’s Fay Prize

    The Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study has named Matthew Smith Miller winner of the 2011 Captain Jonathan Fay Prize for his interdisciplinary work and extensive research on his thesis, “Surely His Mother Mourns for Him: Africans on Exhibition in Boston and New York, 1860-1861.”

  • Campus & Community

    Edwin O. Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies supports student research and travel in Japan

    Founded in 1973, the Edwin O. Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies (RI) 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

    Keeping connected

    Robert R. Bowie Jr. ’73 will conclude his tenure as Harvard Alumni Association president, welcoming incoming President Ellen Gordon Reeves ’83, Ed.M. ’86. Reeves said she hopes to expand on Bowie’s networking theme over the course of her tenure.

  • Campus & Community

    Tunnel vision

    At Adams House, a tradition thrives as students annually paint art in the passageways.