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Campus & Community
Two are Abramson winners
Kevin Eggan, associate professor of stem cell and regenerative biology, and David Elmer, assistant professor of the classics, are the winners of the 2011 Roslyn Abramson Award for excellence in undergraduate teaching.
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Campus & Community
Extension School recognizes outstanding grads
Each Commencement, the Harvard Extension School recognizes the notable accomplishments of its top graduates and outstanding faculty with numerous awards and prizes.
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Campus & Community
GSAS honors outstanding alumni
This year’s Centennial Medal from the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences is being awarded to a leading international scholar in mathematics, a well-traveled space scientist, a former university president who epitomizes grace under fire, and a historian who paints America’s past in vivid strokes.
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Campus & Community
Guided by faith
Divinity School student Shauntae Smith will draw from her Harvard studies to lead the youth ministry at her home church in Brooklyn, N.Y.
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Campus & Community
Fighting poverty, by design
A young Harvard architect, with an eye to other cultures, challenges his profession to use design to end poverty and spur social justice.
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Campus & Community
Racing to find her passion
Setbacks in her ski racing career set Marguerite Thorp on the path to serving her passion for global health and social justice.
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Campus & Community
The master distiller
Jason Harrow argued his team to victory in Harvard Law School’s prestigious moot court competition. But his biggest test came in a real federal courtroom, where Harrow took up a high-profile case against the music industry.
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Nation & World
Planning a life for others
Before he was a graduate of Harvard, Jeffrey Lynn Hall Jr. was a graduate of the streets of St. Louis, which taught him to look back and to give back.
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Campus & Community
All creatures great and small
Viewing all life as interconnected, Australian equine specialist Mark Schembri will use his degree from the Harvard School of Public Health to help humans and animals live healthier.
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Campus & Community
Pianist on the rise
Charlie Albright — “among the most gifted musicians of his generation,” according to The Washington Post — has excelled in Harvard’s joint program with the New England Conservatory and is on track to receive a master’s of music in piano performance next year.
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Campus & Community
A Poehler-ized Class Day
Comedian Amy Poehler addressed Harvard’s graduating seniors on Class Day, peppering her remarks with humor and humble words of wisdom.
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Campus & Community
Harvard at 375
The University gets ready to celebrate its classic values, as well as its recent innovative momentum in the sciences, public service, diversity, internationalism, and the arts. Oct. 14 will be the launch of the official 375th anniversary.
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Campus & Community
Three to join Harvard Corporation
In its first expansion in more than three centuries, the Harvard Corporation will add three new members this July. They are Lawrence S. Bacow, Susan L. Graham, and Joseph J. O’Donnell. The appointments were announced May 25.
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Campus & Community
Officers of the day
On the eve of Commencement, three Harvard students become military officers during the annual ROTC commissioning ceremony.
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Campus & Community
Underdogs to top dogs
With a victory over heavily favored Notre Dame on May 1 in Pittsburgh, the Radcliffe Rugby Football Club claimed the 2011 USA Rugby Division II National Championship. It was an astonishing success for a team whose future seemed uncertain only a few years ago.
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Campus & Community
Baby, it’s been a wild ride
Master’s recipient Lena Eisen proves that having a child and going to graduate school at the same time can make for a workable adventure.
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Campus & Community
Pondering a precious life
For the past decade, the Harvard Business School Portrait Project has asked graduating M.B.A.s the question once posed by poet Mary Oliver: “Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?” The answers are often surprising.
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Campus & Community
‘Finish your own sentences’
Invoking the legacy of the late Rev. Peter J. Gomes, Harvard President Drew Faust’s Baccalaureate Address urged graduates to veer from scripts and write their own post-college endings.
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Campus & Community
The game ends, and life begins
Once a Harvard and pro football star, Business School grad Isaiah Kacyvenski is ready to tackle fresh challenges.
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Campus & Community
A celebration of excellence
The first act of Commencement honored graduating seniors during a Phi Beta Kappa ceremony, with Joyce Carol Oates and Henri Cole as speakers.
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Nation & World
Harvard in the military
Recent graduates commissioned as officers through ROTC are training, traveling, and plunging into combat.
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Campus & Community
David Axelrod joins IOP Board
The Institute of Politics at Harvard Kennedy School has added another prominent political practitioner to its Senior Advisory Committee: David Axelrod.
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Campus & Community
Research papers draw acclaim
The Harvard Environmental Economics Program has awarded three prizes to Harvard students for the best research papers addressing a topic in environmental, energy, or resource economics.
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Science & Tech
A walk through forests — without rain
New England forests are the focus of a new exhibit at the Harvard Museum of Natural History, funded by the largest donation in the institution’s history.
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Campus & Community
Working toward a new Charlesview
The development of quality homes for the residents of the 40-year-old, 213-unit Charlesview Apartment complex at Barry’s Corner took a big step forward when city, state, and Harvard officials broke ground on a new building at Brighton Mills on May 16.
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Campus & Community
Gram gives peace a chance
In the face of acts of profound violence — including the murder of her brother — Danielle Gram ’11 has chosen to make peace her life’s work.
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Campus & Community
Making an art of science
Graduating senior Kevin Shee threw himself into Harvard’s dance scene after arriving as a freshman, but he leaves after nourishing a second love — science — that will take him to a research career after graduation.
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Campus & Community
Nine named Rappaport Fellows
Seven students from Harvard have been named Rappaport Public Policy Fellows and two are named Radcliffe/Rappaport Doctoral Policy Fellows.
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Arts & Culture
The spirituality of the stage
Actress and playwright Amy Brenneman and longtime collaborator Sabrina Peck, both Harvard graduates, reunite at the American Repertory Theater to present their play about spirituality, fame, and a debilitating illness.
