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Campus & Community
An inspiration to students
Professor of Astronomy Alyssa A. Goodman was named the Harvard Foundation’s 2015 Scientist of the Year.
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Nation & World
Massive study on MOOCs
A Harvard and MIT study’s findings suggest that teachers often constitute a significant portion of the participants in MOOCs; that learner intentions matter; and that those with financial stakes have higher completion rates.
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Campus & Community
Harvard College admits 1,990
On March 31, admission notifications were sent to 1,990 of the record 37,307 who applied for admission to the Harvard College Class of 2019.
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Campus & Community
Honoring, and feeling, Heaney’s presence
A new suite at Adams House captures the spirit of the late poet Seamus Heaney and offers students a quiet space in which to write and reflect.
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Health
Pesticides result in lower sperm counts
Men who ate fruits and vegetables with higher levels of pesticide residues had lower sperm counts and lower percentages of normal sperm than those who ate produce with lower residue levels, according to a new study from Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.
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Arts & Culture
Bringing sanity to clarity
Professor Steven Pinker talks about his latest book, “The Sense of Style: The Thinking Person’s Guide to Writing in the 21st Century.”
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Health
Mystery motor
Harvard researchers have solved the mystery of how some bacteria move across surfaces with the discovery of a rotary motor in the bacterium Flavobacterium johnsoniae.
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Campus & Community
Senior named Churchill Scholar
Harvard student Evan O’Dorney ’15 is named a Churchill Scholar.
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Campus & Community
The Crimson in Seattle
Alumni and friends, including many recent graduates, joined President Drew Faust at a Your Harvard celebration in Seattle.
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Nation & World
‘The most dangerous thing in the world is apathy’
His Holiness the 17th Gyalwang Karmapa, Ogyen Trinley Dorje, spoke about love, environmental issues, and apathy to a capacity crowd at Harvard’s Memorial Church.
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Arts & Culture
A close glimpse of James Baldwin
Houghton Library recently acquired its 3,000th American item, the typescript of an unproduced James Baldwin play — a rich tangle of the author’s obsessions in need of a scholar’s clarifying touch.
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Nation & World
Radically rethinking education
Higher education in the digital age is radically remaking the models by which it delivers its content, the leader of a higher education technology association said.
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Arts & Culture
The introspective Laurie Anderson
Performance artist Laurie Anderson delved into her inspirations and motivations as she gave the Music Department’s Louis C. Elson Lecture.
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Arts & Culture
Up for debate
During two days of programming at the Harvard Art Museums, scholars, students, and the public explored the significance and innovative conservation of Mark Rothko’s Harvard murals. The events highlighted the murals’ return to public discourse and their new role as potential models for the treatment of aged and damaged art.
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Science & Tech
Science in the mix(er)
“Science and Cooking” was the topic of a HarvardX lecture offered at the new Harvard Ed Portal in Allston.
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Arts & Culture
Seeing, feeling, being
A symposium will investigate what makes us human, and go beyond philosophy to do it.
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Arts & Culture
Breaking musical barriers
In a visit to Harvard, Marin Alsop discussed some of the challenges she has faced as music director of the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra.
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Nation & World
Harvard in Beijing
During a historic visit to Beijing, Harvard President Drew Faust delivered the Tsinghua Global Vision Lecture, “Universities and the Challenge of Global Climate Change,” to faculty and students at Tsinghua…
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Science & Tech
A quantum leap for women
Step by step, a growing Harvard women’s student group is helping to change the male-dominated culture of computer science by creating fresh realities.
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Campus & Community
Karen Moore to lead Board of Overseers
Karen Nelson Moore ’70, J.D. ’73, a judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit, has been named president of Harvard University’s Board of Overseers. Diana Nelson ’84, chair of the board of Carlson, will serve as vice chair of the Overseers executive committee.
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Campus & Community
Guidelines for Harvard’s 364th Commencement
A special notice regarding Harvard’s 364th Commencement Exercises, which will be held May 28.
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Campus & Community
Faculty Council meeting held March 25
On March 25 the members of the Faculty Council approved changes to the Handbook for Students for 2015-16. They also heard a review of human evolutionary biology and presentations from the Task Force on Sexual Harassment and from the University Benefits Committee.
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Arts & Culture
A fountain of music
As part of a course on music composition, Harvard students created original works inspired by objects in the Harvard Art Museums collections. Those compositions were recently brought to life by cellist Neil Heyde of London’s Royal Academy of Music at a concert held in the Calderwood Courtyard.
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Arts & Culture
Soccer’s versatile beauty
Harvard course uses the game of soccer to explore the complexity of the humanities.
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Science & Tech
Where science meets creationism
Professor David Montgomery’s most recent book explores an unexpected crossroads: the intersection of geology and the Bible.
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Campus & Community
An icy welcome
Charles River, frozen into the spring, hampers Harvard’s crew season. Lightweight crew competitions were canceled for Saturday due to the icy conditions on the Charles. The men’s heavyweight crew will compete on April 4.
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Campus & Community
Target: Climate change
Harvard will convene a panel at Sanders Theatre on April 13 to discuss the wide-ranging concerns surrounding climate change.
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Nation & World
For Jill Abramson, journalism comes full circle
Former New York Times executive editor Jill Abramson talks about leaving daily journalism to teach at Harvard, where her career began.
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Campus & Community
Matching dreams
Members of Harvard Medical School’s Class of 2015 tear open envelopes that reveal where they will spend the next three to seven years of their training in residency programs.
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Health
Healthy school lunches have to taste good, too
School collaborations with a professionally trained chef to improve the taste of healthy meals significantly increased students’ consumption of fruits and vegetables, according to a new study led by researchers from Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.
