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Nation & World
Building a discussion around the Memorial Church
Diane Moore, director of the Religious Literacy Project at Harvard Divinity School, used Harvard’s Memorial Church as a focal point in kicking off her discussion on religion. Moore spoke as part of the Harvard Ed Portal’s faculty series.
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Campus & Community
President and vice chair of Harvard Overseers named
Kenji Yoshino ’91, the Chief Justice Earl Warren Professor of Constitutional Law at New York University School of Law, has been elected president of Harvard’s Board of Overseers for the academic year 2016-17. Nicole Parent Haughey ’93 has been elected vice chair of the Overseers executive committee for 2016-17.
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Campus & Community
Rashida Jones named 2016 Harvard Class Day speaker
Rashida Jones ’97, whose professional acting career began the year she graduated from Harvard College, will address the Class of 2016 on May 25 as part of the annual Class Day celebration.
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Nation & World
Endowments as engines of education
In letter, Harvard officials tell congressional committees why endowments are fundamental to higher education’s stability, research, and mission.
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Nation & World
Terror threat on mind of Italian PM
Prime Minister Matteo Renzi of Italy talked about challenges facing Europe in a stop at Harvard during a four-day trip to the U.S.
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Nation & World
Hiding money in plain sight
The U.S. Treasury Department has begun scrutinizing the secret world of the American luxury real estate market to better assess how much of it may be enmeshed in money laundering.
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Campus & Community
College admits 2,037
The members of the Harvard Class of 2020 have received their acceptance notifications. The College is admitting 2,037 applicants from a record pool of 39,041.
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Campus & Community
Lifted up into history
A portrait of the late Rev. Peter J. Gomes, the Pusey Minister in the Memorial Church for almost 40 years, was unveiled at the Faculty Room in University Hall. It is the first portrait of a non-white person in the iconic, stately room.
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Campus & Community
Dunster House renewed
Dunster House is the first House to be completely renewed, informed by test projects that transformed Stone Hall at Quincy House and McKinlock Hall at Leverett House.
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Campus & Community
Envisioning Allston’s enterprise research campus
Harvard has named Steven D. Fessler to lead the real estate development of the Allston enterprise research campus.
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Nation & World
The fears of American Muslims
Vitriolic politics and terror strikes are fueling an increase in suspicion and mistrust of American Muslims, panelists say.
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Nation & World
Gateway to inclusion
St. Louis planners and activists converge on Harvard to talk with one another and ponder the future of a troubled area.
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Science & Tech
Understanding faults
Phoebe DeVries, a Ph.D. candidate in earth and planetary sciences and a 2016 Harvard Horizons Scholar, will deliver a five-minute talk about predicting seismic hazards on April 5 at Sanders Theatre.
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Nation & World
Minding the gaps
At the fourth annual Anita Hill Lecture on Gender Justice, Wake Forest University Professor Melissa Harris-Perry said that while more women have entered into today’s knowledge economy, they still make only 77 cents to every dollar men earn — and black and Latino women earn even less.
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Campus & Community
Institute of Politics, 50 years in
As the Institute of Politics at Harvard Kennedy School celebrates its 50th anniversary, alumni reflect on the important influence it had on their lives.
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Nation & World
Star negotiator
A discussion at Harvard Law School will highlight the negotiation work of James B. Donovan, an alumnus who negotiated the release of several Cold War prisoners. Donovan’s story is the subject of the film “Bridge of Spies,” which will be screened before the discussion.
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Campus & Community
New ‘startup’ grants
For incoming freshmen to Harvard College’s Class of 2020, ‘start-up’ grants will help ease the pressures of everyday expenses.
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Science & Tech
Earlier warnings for heat waves
In a new study, researchers from Harvard University and the National Center for Atmospheric Research have identified sea surface temperature patterns that help predict extreme heat waves in the Eastern United States up to 50 days in advance.
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Health
Deploying mosquitoes against Zika
Flaminia Catteruccia, an associate professor of immunology and infectious diseases at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, speaks to the Gazette about using genetically modified mosquitoes to combat the Zika virus and other diseases.
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Nation & World
An EU outflanked, endangered
Harvard analysts discuss the security, political, and economic ramifications of the Brussels terrorist attacks on the European Union.
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Campus & Community
International Committee of the Red Cross president honored
Peter Maurer, president of the International Committee of the Red Cross, will receive the inaugural Elisabeth B. Weintz Humanitarian Award on March 29 at the Harvard Art Museums. Earlier that day, he will deliver a Director’s Seminar at the Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies at Harvard. On March 30, he will speak at…
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Health
Strength in love, hope in science
Husband and wife Eric Minikel and Sonia Vallabh have found a home at the Broad Institute to work toward a treatment for her fatal disease.
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Nation & World
To speak, and move others to act
Language, literature, and the liberal arts are key disciplines in forming leaders, Harvard President Drew Faust said during a speech at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point.
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Campus & Community
Pinning their hopes on buttons
Catchy slogans, iconic symbols, and striking colors are the makings for memorable political buttons.
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Nation & World
A ‘new phase’ of global terrorism
U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security Jeh C. Johnson spoke to students at Harvard Kennedy School about the complex efforts that go into national security, particularly in the wake of terrorist attacks.
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Nation & World
At the intersection of sexuality and spirituality
From pastor to corporate lawyer to divinity school student, Danny Ballon has learned that you don’t have to choose between being gay and being Christian. Now he wants to help others understand their options.
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Arts & Culture
Searching for paradise
Chilean poet Raúl Zurita will deliver a bilingual reading as the Robert F. Kennedy Visiting Professor in Latin American Studies.
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Nation & World
The making of two educators
Harvard University President Drew Gilpin Faust and her brother, Donald Gilpin, a retired English and drama teacher, shared their thoughts on pedagogy in a discussion at the Harvard Graduate School of Education.
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Arts & Culture
‘The Global Philosopher’
Harvard Business School (HBS) and BBC Radio 4 have worked together to produce the first episode of “The Global Philosopher,” a program hosted by Harvard political philosopher Michael J. Sandel.
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Science & Tech
Warmer weather, finer wines
By examining more than 500 years of harvest records, researchers found that wine grape harvests across France, on average, now occur two weeks earlier than in the past, largely due to climate change. While earlier harvests are normally associated with higher quality wines, researchers caution the trend likely won’t last.
