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Nation & World
Nigeria at the crossroads
Nobel laureate and writer Wole Soyinka told a Harvard audience on Wednesday that ruthless Islamist religious fundamentalism is “the enemy of humanity.”
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Nation & World
Drilling down on corruption
As he concludes a five-year lab study on institutional corruption, Harvard Law School Professor Lawrence Lessig, departing as head of the Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics, reflects on the lessons learned, and the challenges that remain.
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Health
A home fit for a king
State wildlife biologists installed a peregrine falcon nesting platform high on Memorial Hall’s tower.
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Science & Tech
Deans’ Challenges winners
Five student-led teams at Harvard were named winners in the third annual Deans’ Challenges, focusing on health and life sciences, cultural entrepreneurship, the food system, and innovation in sports.
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Campus & Community
Faculty Council meeting held April 29
On April 29 the members of the Faculty Council approved preliminary versions of the University Extension School courses for 2015-16 and Courses of Instruction for 2015-16.
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Campus & Community
Long hitting the high notes
Harvard’s Lowell House Opera is the longest continually performing opera company in New England.
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Campus & Community
Welcoming Harvard’s next class
A freshman returns to Visitas, the annual weekend focused on incoming Harvard College students, and views their weekend through fresh eyes.
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Arts & Culture
A vivid life
The life and art of Mark Rothko are examined in the new play “Red,” to be performed at Harvard Art Museums.
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Science & Tech
Redesigning design contests
A Harvard conference on design competitions — which can be creative, ubiquitous, and troubling — lays out the present controversies surrounding them, and some solutions.
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Campus & Community
A call for ideas
Awards given after New Venture Competition celebrate entrepreneurship at Harvard Business School.
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Arts & Culture
How to recast antiquity
With help from a Harvard grant and a class on the ancient Near East, Harvard students are re-creating casts of Mesopotamian masterpieces.
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Work & Economy
‘I had this extraordinary sense of liberation’
Interview with Dean Nitin Nohria of Harvard Business School as part of the Experience series.
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Campus & Community
Claudine Gay named dean of social science
Claudine Gay, a Harvard professor of government and African and African American Studies, and a distinguished scholar of mass political behavior, has been appointed dean of social science in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences.
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Campus & Community
Seven graduate students awarded prestigious fellowships
Seven students from Harvard’s Graduate School of Arts and Sciences were awarded Fulbright Fellowships earlier this week. The scholars’ research will take them across the globe — to Africa, Asia, and Europe.
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Arts & Culture
At the heart of ‘Mad Men’
Matthew Weiner, creator of “Mad Men,” talked about his development as a writer and the show’s beginnings in a conversation with Harvard’s Bret Anthony Johnston on Monday at Sever Hall.
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Nation & World
Understanding Turkey
Turkey appears to be moving away from the path toward reforms that helped to fuel an economic resurgence there in the early 2000s, a leading economist told a Harvard audience.
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Nation & World
‘I felt as if I was on a boat at sea’
Renee Salas, a Wilderness Medicine Fellow from Harvard-affiliated Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School instructor in emergency medicine, was working at a remote clinic near the Mount Everest Base Camp when Saturday’s earthquake struck Nepal. She shared her experience with the Gazette.
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Nation & World
After Nepal quake, Harvard responds
With Nepal struggling to grasp the enormous calamity caused by the magnitude 7.8 earthquake that struck north of Kathmandu Saturday, Harvard is mobilizing to help with technical and medical assistance and reaching out to faculty, staff, and students visiting the region.
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Science & Tech
The fast-firing universe
Nobel laureate and astrophysicist Brian Schmidt returns to Harvard this week to deliver the Morris Loeb and David M. Lee Lectures in Physics. Schmidt will discuss his discovery that the expansion of the universe is accelerating, as well as the SkyMapper survey of the southern skies and the first stars that emerged after the universe’s…
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Nation & World
Not backing down
Speaking at the Harvard Kennedy School, Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe talked about his country’s economic and political difficulties, during the first stop of his state visit to the United States.
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Science & Tech
Women in sciences
A group called Harvard Graduate Women in Science and Engineering just celebrated a decade of fellowship in those fields.
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Campus & Community
Fryer wins Clark Medal
Roland Fryer, Harvard’s Henry Lee Professor of Economics, has been awarded the American Economic Association’s John Bates Clark Medal, which is given annually to a rising young economist.
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Nation & World
Reconnecting on education
Panelists across Harvard gather to consider how education should and will affect tomorrow’s global challenges.
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Campus & Community
Undergrads collecting degrees, heading abroad
Four graduating seniors will begin yearlong fellowships as part of the Fulbright Scholars program administered by the U.S. Department of State. Joy Ming, Tyreke White, and Amanda Reilly will all complete their studies at the Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences this year.
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Science & Tech
Seeking a bisexual revolution
A successful bisexual movement would lead not only to more freedom for bisexuals, but to “liberation of all other groups. In fighting for its goals, it would not forget how all forms of oppression are interlinked,” said Shiri Eisner, author of “Bi: Notes for a Bisexual Revolution,” in delivering the annual Nicholas Papadopoulos Lecture.
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Arts & Culture
The mystery of Mahler
American audiences quickly embraced the Austrian composer and conductor Gustav Mahler when he moved to the United States, and to a surprising degree, lecturer Federico Cortese told an Ed Portal audience.
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Campus & Community
Smart response
The emergency communications startup RapidSOS was awarded $70,000 as the winner of the fourth President’s Challenge.
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Health
Promising stem cell therapy
Harvard Stem Cell Institute researchers at Massachusetts General Hospital have developed an “imageable” mouse model of brain-metastatic breast cancer and shown the potential of a stem-cell-based therapy to eliminate metastatic cells from the brain and prolong survival. The study, published online in the journal Brain, also describes a strategy for preventing the potential negative consequences…
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Campus & Community
Where skill meets flair
The 24th annual Harvard Invitational ballroom competition, organized by the University’s ballroom team, happened in downtown Boston April 11 and 12.
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Campus & Community
Portman named Class Day speaker
Actress Natalie Portman ’03 has been selected as Class Day speaker for Harvard College. Portman will address the graduating class on May 27, the day before the 364th Commencement.
