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Campus & Community
Seriously, grads: Don’t be afraid
Live with intention and don’t let fear keep you from being the person you want to be, Larry Wilmore told the Class of 2023 on Wednesday.
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Campus & Community
Rubenstein to step down from Harvard Corporation
Longtime University supporter will remain chair of Global Advisory Council.
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Campus & Community
Timothy R. Barakett named Harvard treasurer
Timothy R. Barakett, a member of the Harvard Corporation since 2019, will become treasurer of the University beginning July 1. He will succeed Paul J. Finnegan, who will carry forward as a member of the Corporation.
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Campus & Community
There’s more to life than money, but still …
Eight faculty members share insights on what to do, what not to do, and how to figure out what matters most.
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Campus & Community
Reflecting on 2022-23
It felt like the start of a new era as life on campus returned to a post-pandemic normal. A timeline marks some of the highlights from the 2022-23 academic year.
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Campus & Community
Wrapped in tradition
The Harvard University Native American Program began practicing the tradition last year at its affinity graduation ceremony for Native students. The event comes with its own communal pageantry, but HUNAP has found a way to also make it feel very personal.
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Campus & Community
Praise for students who faced an extraordinary test — and passed
“Looking at you, I see the future as it might one day be, and it gives me hope,” Bacow told the Class of 2023.
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Campus & Community
Power of poetry, warning to preserve academic freedom
Pulitzer Prize winner explains how her work brings more love into her life while physicist urges defense of classroom speech.
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Campus & Community
Bells to ring on Commencement Day
For the 36th year, a number of neighboring churches and institutions will ring their bells in celebration of the city of Cambridge and of Harvard’s 372nd Commencement Exercises on May 25. The bells will begin at 12:15 p.m.
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Campus & Community
Preparing to rebuild even as war with Russia rages
Konstantin Usov struggled with the decision to attend the Kennedy School, but others urged him not to pass up the opportunity to acquire knowledge to bring back and share when Kyiv and Ukraine begin rebuilding.
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Science & Tech
What drives four future climate leaders
Seniors represent diverse backgrounds, concentrations, and perspectives on finding real-world solutions to complex, mounting crisis.
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Campus & Community
‘I realized that I couldn’t say no — not because of personal ambition, but given the moment.’
Harvard’s 29th president shares memories and lessons from his early life and career.
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Campus & Community
Shoyo Sato’s curious comeback
Ahead of graduation from the Harvard Kenneth C. Griffin Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, Shoyo Sato looks back on the experience as the best thing that could’ve happened.
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Campus & Community
Making connections between modern, ancient — and each other
The orations will be delivered during Morning Exercises in Tercentenary Theatre on May 25.
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Campus & Community
Three seniors awarded Fay Prize for outstanding theses
Three students were recognized by the Harvard Radcliffe Institute with the Captain Jonathan Fay Prize, the annual award for the top three best theses of the College’s graduating class.
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Campus & Community
Class of 2027 yield continues strong trend
Admitted students will benefit from the second expansion of Harvard Financial Aid Initiative in two years.
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Campus & Community
Leading with authenticity
Tracy “Ty” Moore II ’06 outlines goals as he prepares to step into the role of alumni president of the Harvard Alumni Association.
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Nation
Fanning the flames on ‘Succession’
Harvard Extension School faculty member Thomas M. Nichols played an analyst on a recent episode of HBO’s dark satire “Succession.”
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Campus & Community
‘I couldn’t have done it alone’
Harvard Law School grad gives thanks for sacrifices by his dad and brother, and help and support from friends and professors.
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Campus & Community
Finishing his mother’s verse
Darius Atefat-Peckham ’23 honors his mother’s legacy through his own work and bringing her unfinished poetry to light.
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Campus & Community
Love of grandmother’s garden blossoms into climate justice activism
Aliyah Collins’ nonprofit aims to help students of historically Black colleges and universities to make spiritual connections with nature, launch conversations about environmental equity.
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Campus & Community
Road less traveled by
LaNell Williams is building a career as a researcher and leader by going her own way, helping prospective grad students of color find theirs.
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Campus & Community
From halls of Montezuma to those of Knafel
Former Marine David Miller surprised himself by his college success and was, in turn, surprised by his experience at College.
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Health
Estrogen a more powerful breast cancer culprit than we realized
A Harvard Medical School study shows the sex hormone estrogen — thus far thought to be only a fuel for breast cancer growth — can directly cause tumor-driving genomic rearrangements.
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Science & Tech
EPA’s new rules on forever chemicals don’t go far enough, study suggests
Harvard-led team finds standards don’t account for major source of drinking water contamination.
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Campus & Community
Saving Mom a seat in class
Life circumstances put sophomore Elio Kennedy-Yoon and grad student mother in “Queer Nation” course at Harvard Kennedy School.
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Nation & World
How 14th Amendment can help Biden avoid default
Constitutional scholar Laurence Tribe says in requiring the president to pay U.S. debts it supersedes debt-limit law, breaks impasse over GOP demands.
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Health
Newly identified genetic variant protects against Alzheimer’s
Researchers identified a first-of-its-kind patient with a genetic predisposition for early-onset Alzheimer’s disease who remained cognitively intact more than two decades beyond the expected age of memory impairment.
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Campus & Community
Seeing obstacles, remaining undeterred
“I do have worries and fears,” says Oren Rimon Or ’23. “But I have developed the confidence that when you want something, you find a way to do it.”
