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Campus & Community
Trusted voice among leaders in higher education
Harvard’s next president, Lawrence Bacow, is known among his peers in higher ed as someone they can turn to for advice.
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Campus & Community
Praise, optimism in reaction to Bacow choice
Members of the Harvard community weighed in with their thoughts Monday on the selection of former Tufts University president Lawrence S. Bacow as Harvard’s next leader.
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Nation & World
A complicated problem, made worse by politics
The inaugural Mahindras Humanities Center conference on “Migration and the Humanities” tackled different facets of the many population movements now crisscrossing the globe.
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Campus & Community
John Harvard’s Charlestown
After a recent snowfall, we explored the neighborhood of the University’s namesake and spoke with historian Rosemary Kverek of Charlestown and Cambridge Historical Commission Director Charles Sullivan.
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Campus & Community
Bacow, named Harvard president, meets the press
Larry Bacow, named Harvard president, meets the press.
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Campus & Community
Harvard names Lawrence S. Bacow as 29th president
Lawrence S. Bacow, one of the most experienced and respected leaders in American higher education, will become the 29th president of Harvard University on July 1.
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Campus & Community
Basketball court dedicated to Thomas G. Stemberg ’71
Harvard Athletics and the men’s and women’s basketball programs have announced the dedication of the court in the newly renovated Lavietes Pavilion as the Thomas G. Stemberg ’71 Court.
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Arts & Culture
Junot Díaz gets personal — and political — at Harvard conference
Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Junot Díaz read his story “The Money” at the Harvard conference Migration and the Humanities.
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Campus & Community
Medal or no medal, a golden opportunity
Harvard star Ryan Donato ’19 will skate for USA hockey in the Winter Olympics, upholding a family tradition.
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Campus & Community
‘Sketching’ with clay
Ben Owen III of North Carolina comes from a long line of potters. The master potter demonstrated his technique at a Harvard Ceramics Program workshop.
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Nation & World
Harvard’s Dreamers have their say
As part of the DACA seminar series highlighting diverse facets of immigration, five undocumented students at Harvard spoke about how they navigate elite academic spaces amid fears of deportation.
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Campus & Community
To compete, they let it slide
Friday marks the opening of the Olympic Games in Pyeongchang, South Korea, where one of the winter competition’s quirkier events will again attract viewers who often start off unsure what to make of it, and end up die-hard fans. Many who give a try it are instantly hooked. Just ask Harvard junior Neekon Vafa, president…
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Campus & Community
Serving up community and sustainable fare
The renovation of the Richard A. and Susan F. Smith Campus Center is on schedule, and food vendors have been announced for its fall opening.
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Campus & Community
Randi Griffin ’10 to play for unified women’s hockey team at Olympics
Former Harvard women’s ice hockey player Randi Griffin ’10, a dual citizen of the United States and South Korea, will play for the unified Korean team at the Pyeongchang Olympics.
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Campus & Community
College grad finds ‘endless’ opportunities in public service
Omar Khoshafa ’17 has been named this year’s Harvard Presidential City of Boston Fellow.
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Nation & World
Media columnist surveys the landscape
Margaret Sullivan, media columnist for The Washington Post, talks about the turmoil in journalism, the difficulties of covering the Trump administration, and the landscape ahead.
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Nation & World
Trump’s language, unseemly to critics, reassures his base
First as a candidate and now as president, Donald Trump’s expressions and arguments are pointed directly at the worried white working class, and remain a draw for his political base.
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Campus & Community
Philip Alden Kuhn, 82
At a Meeting of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences on Feb. 6, 2018, the Minute honoring the life and service of the Philip A. Kuhn, Francis Lee Higginson Professor of History and of East Asian Languages and Civilizations Emeritus was placed upon the records. Professor Kuhn, through artful, deeply researched storytelling, reshaped approaches to…
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Campus & Community
J. Richard Hackman, 73
At a Meeting of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences on Feb. 6, 2018, the Minute honoring the life and service of the late J. Richard Hackman, Edgar Pierce Professor of Social and Organizational Psychology, was placed upon the records. Professor Hackman sought to understand the elemental ability of living beings to operate as collectives…
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Campus & Community
Abdelhamid Sabra, 89
At a Meeting of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences on Feb. 6, 2018, the Minute honoring the life and service of the late Abdelhamid Ibrahim Sabra, Professor of the History of Arabic Science emeritus was placed upon the records. Professor Sabra was best known for his extensive investigations into medieval and early modern optics…
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Science & Tech
Studying shark scales to design better drones, planes, turbines
Researchers use sharkskin as a model to create more lift in aerodynamic machines.
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Work & Economy
The stock market goes off-road
Harvard Business School’s Robin Greenwood, who studies price bubbles, discusses the stock market plunge that took place earlier this week.
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Nation & World
Gauging how children grow, learn, thrive
Two professors at the Harvard Graduate School of Education are leading a longitudinal study to research children’s development in both formal and informal early education settings in Massachusetts.
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Arts & Culture
Feminism and fairy tales
Radcliffe film series spotlights the feminine power in many traditional fables and folk tales.
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Nation & World
China’s philosophical dilemma
A forum at Tsai Auditorium marked the publication of “Encountering China: Michael Sandel and Chinese Philosophy.”
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Campus & Community
Harvard makes climate pledge to end fossil fuel use
Members of Harvard climate change task force explain how they reached ambitious goals to end fossil fuel use on campus by 2050.
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Arts & Culture
African-American folklore inspires meeting of the minds
Harvard scholars Henry Louis “Skip” Gates Jr. and Maria Tatar discuss the collaborative effort behind “The Annotated African American Folktales.”
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Nation & World
Durbin outlines plight of the undocumented
As the fate of thousands of undocumented Dreamers hangs in the balance, U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin, a champion of immigration and co-sponsor of the original DREAM Act, spoke at Harvard Kennedy School Thursday evening about the difficulty Democrats will face next week getting new legislation passed through Republican-controlled Congress.
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Campus & Community
Paul Rudd honored as Hasty Pudding’s Man of the Year
Paul Rudd, a staple of comedic cinema for the past 25 years, was recognized as Hasty Pudding Theatricals’ 2018 Man of the Year on Feb. 2.
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Campus & Community
SEAS convocation reflects growing interest in field
The largest class in the 10-year history of the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences attended the Sophomore Convocation to learn more.
