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  • Campus & Community

    Ten faculty named Cabot Fellows

    Ten professors in Harvard’s Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) have been named Walter Channing Cabot Fellows

  • Campus & Community

    HAA names Harvard Medalists

    The Harvard Alumni Association has announced the recipients of the 2010 Harvard Medal: Nina Archabal ’62, M.A.T. ’63, Paul Buttenwieser ’60, M.D. ’64, C. Kevin Landry ’66, and Dean Whitla, Ed. ’60.

  • Campus & Community

    It’s all about the numbers

    Alexander Ahmed ’10 shows a passion for statistics both on the diamond and in the classroom.

  • Campus & Community

    Alumni support financial aid

    For the first time in Harvard’s history, more than 30,000 students applied to the College; 2,110 were accepted into the Class of 2014. More than 60 percent of the admitted students, benefiting from a record $158 million in financial aid, will receive need-based scholarships.

  • Campus & Community

    Benefiting society, scholarship

    For more than two decades, the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences (GSAS) has awarded its Centennial Medal to a select group of graduates who have made significant contributions to society and scholarship: David Bevington ’52, Ph.D. ’59, English; Stephen Fischer-Galati ’46, Ph.D. ’49, history; Eric Maskin ’72, Ph.D. ’76, applied mathematics; Martha Nussbaum, Ph.D.…

  • Campus & Community

    Honorary degrees awarded

    Harvard will confer 10 honorary degrees today (May 27) during the Morning Exercises.

  • Campus & Community

    DRCLAS sponsors summer travel in Latin American Studies

    The David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies (DRCLAS) is sponsoring more than 160 students to travel to Latin America for work, research, and study this summer.

  • Campus & Community

    Alumni rally behind public service

    Outgoing HAA President Teresita Alvarez-Bjelland says the group’s interest in public service is expanding by leaps and bounds. Incoming President Robert R. Bowie Jr. plans to continue strengthening the alumni community.

  • Campus & Community

    When the past is present

    Marcus Briggs-Cloud believes native language is what connects communities. His time at the Divinity School has helped him strengthen that bridge.

  • Campus & Community

    The good ol’ days

    Members of Harvard’s Class of 1950 reminisce about their undergrad years and discuss where their lives went in the 60 years that followed.

  • Campus & Community

    Harvard Business School honors eight for service to society

    Eight members of the Harvard Business School (HBS) M.B.A. Class of 2010 have been named winners of the School’s prestigious Dean’s Award.

  • Campus & Community

    Tom Harkin presented with HSPH’s Healthy Cup Award

    The Harvard School of Public Health’s Nutrition Round Table recently presented Sen. Tom Harkin from Iowa with the third annual Healthy Cup Award on May 18.

  • Campus & Community

    James Houghton: ‘I had the best time in the world’

    James Houghton, senior fellow of the Harvard Corporation, is stepping down from his post at the end of June. He reflected on his long Harvard association during an interview.

  • Campus & Community

    Alfred Pope

    Alfred Pope, professor of neuropathology emeritus at Harvard Medical School and senior neuropathologist at McLean Hospital, died on Feb. 13, 2009, at Fox Hill Village in Westwood, Mass., at the age of 94. Pope, one of the world’s most eminent neuropathologists, served at McLean for more than six decades.

  • Health

    The art of science

    Susan Mango, professor of molecular and cellular biology and MacArthur award winner, brings her unorthodox approach to research.

  • Campus & Community

    Raymond D. Adams

    Raymond Delacy Adams, Bullard Professor of Neuropathology emeritus at Harvard Medical School, died at Brigham and Women’s Hospital on Oct. 18, 2008, at the age of 97. Adams was considered by his peers to be one of the pre-eminent neurologists of the 20th century.

  • Arts & Culture

    Looking for his big break

    Graduating senior Derek Mueller spent a lot of time being theatrical with Harvard’s Hasty Pudding troupe, and is now heading to Los Angeles and the entertainment world.

  • Campus & Community

    Harvard Rituals: Class Day

    CNN international correspondent Christiane Amanpour addresses graduating seniors during Class Day ceremonies the day before Commencement.

  • Campus & Community

    Faust emphasizes public service

    Concluding a year of expanded volunteer efforts at Harvard, president announces new fellowships that will allow students to do well by doing good.

  • Campus & Community

    Daily battle to improve health

    Harvard School of Public Health student Lyle Ignace hopes to use his experience as an American Indian physician and his new understanding of public health systems to make a difference in the Native American community.

  • Campus & Community

    ‘Remarkable teachers’

    Historian Maya Jasanoff and chemist Tobias Ritter are this year’s winners of the Roslyn Abramson Award, given annually to assistant or associate professors for excellence in undergraduate teaching.

  • Campus & Community

    Fighting modern slave trade

    Katherine Chon found her passion in opposing human trafficking worldwide, and her Kennedy School degree will provide new strategies for doing so.

  • Campus & Community

    Other notable 1950 graduates

    In the 60th Anniversary Report for the Class of 1950, where alumni update classmates on the happenings in their lives, a look at some other graduates of note.

  • Nation & World

    Creating worldwide change

    A Harvard Kennedy School degree program celebrates a decade of graduates who are having a major impact on international development.

  • Campus & Community

    Harvey Goldman

    Harvey Goldman, professor of pathology at Harvard Medical School and the Harvard-Massachusetts Institute of Technology Division of Health Sciences and Technology, died on April 6, 2009, from complications of a hematologic disorder. Goldman was not only a master educator, but also an outstanding surgical pathologist and investigator in the field of gastrointestinal pathology.

  • Campus & Community

    Sparking a passion

    Four years ago, Melissa Tran ’10 didn’t want to leave California. Then she came to Harvard and found out what the world has to offer … and what she has to offer the world.

  • Campus & Community

    Harvard Theatre Collection Curator Fredric Woodbridge Wilson dies at 62

    Harvard Theatre Collection Curator Fredric Woodbridge Wilson died May 15 of pancreatic cancer.

  • Campus & Community

    Daniel Tosteson

    Daniel Charles Tosteson, former dean of the Harvard Faculty of Medicine and Caroline Shields Walker Distinguished Professor of Cell Biology, died on May 27, 2009, at the age of 84 after a long and courageous struggle with Parkinson’s disease. His 20-year leadership of the Harvard Medical Faculty was marked by innovation, change, and renewal. His…

  • Health

    In praise of unwanted termites

    The star of Africa’s savanna ecosystems may be the lowly insect. Its regularly spaced mounds prove a key to maintaining ecological function in the area.

  • Campus & Community

    Renaissance man

    A veteran Italian-American chef, Rosario Del Nero rediscovers the joys of learning at the Extension School, and wins an academic prize.