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Campus & Community
A key player on the field and off
Softball co-captain Melissa Schellberg ’10 leaves her mark on the Harvard community.
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Campus & Community
Teaching as ‘a secular pulpit’
After a quarter century, David Damrosch left Columbia to pursue his passions in literature and languages at Harvard.
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Campus & Community
Living the lessons we have learned
A graduating Harvard Kennedy School student, herself Native American, ponders the experiences of her predecessors, students at the Indian College in the 1660s.
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Campus & Community
How to engineer change
Harvard’s School of Engineering and Applied Sciences makes rapid progress in reaching long-term energy-saving goals.
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Science & Tech
Getting a bird’s-eye view of the past
The archaeological work of Harvard students, using satellite photos to locate ancient structures, is on display at the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology.
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Campus & Community
HKS establishes professorship on the international financial system
With the world’s attention focused on global financial reform and responsibility, the Harvard Kennedy School is establishing a professorship dedicated to addressing the challenges of the international financial system.
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Campus & Community
Murty family gift establishes Murty Classical Library of India series
The Murty family’s endowed series will bring the classical literature of India, much of which remains locked in its original language, to a global audience.
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Campus & Community
Five from Harvard win DCPS case competition
The District of Columbia Public Schools (DCPS) has announced that a team of five Harvard graduate students were named the 2010 winners of The Urban Education Redesign Challenge, for their public engagement and mobilization strategy for DCPS.
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Arts & Culture
Rebels to some, achievers to others
For two lecturers, the achievements of American radicals have been too long ignored. They argue that a reappraisal is due.
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Campus & Community
It’s Arts First at Harvard
The annual Arts First Festival (April 29 to May 2) will take over the sidewalks of Harvard Square and 43 venues across campus, with hundreds of student performers and arts opportunities.
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Arts & Culture
What makes a life significant?
A diverse Harvard panel marks the 1910 death of William James, celebrates his life, and revisits his famous question.
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Campus & Community
Ending on a high note
After more than three decades as the head of Harvard’s choral program, Jim Marvin prepares to say farewell. In tribute to Marvin, more than 400 alumni from the choirs will return to campus this weekend (April 30 to May 2) to celebrate his long career with a series of receptions and group sings, and a…
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Campus & Community
Around the Schools: Harvard Kennedy School
Two documentaries from this year’s Sundance Film Festival had an exclusive screening at the inaugural Gleitsman Social Change Film Forum at the Harvard Kennedy School (HKS).
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Campus & Community
Language of learning
With a culturally diverse student body and more than 80 languages and several hundred courses available for study, Harvard’s commitment is unmatched nationally.
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Campus & Community
Kanter honored by Good Housekeeping Magazine
Rosabeth Moss Kanter, the Ernest L. Arbuckle Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School and chair/director of the Interfaculty Initiative on Advanced Leadership, has been named one of the “125 women who changed our world” over the past 125 years by Good Housekeeping in the May 2010 issue (released April 13) for the magazine’s…
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Campus & Community
Evening with Champions
With her spotlight purring like an old projector, Linda Yao ’10 used a steady hand to follow the cast of famed figure skaters as they shaved graceful ribbons into the ice during “An Evening with Champions.”
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Campus & Community
Enriquez named associate curator of modern and contemporary art
The Harvard Art Museum announces the appointment of Mary Schneider Enriquez as Houghton Associate Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art in the museum’s Department of Modern and Contemporary Art, effective April 5.
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Arts & Culture
Peering into gearworks of FDA
Daniel Carpenter’s new book, “Reputation and Power: Organizational Image and Pharmaceutical Regulation at the FDA,” probes the workings of a crucial federal safety agency that often is either lionized or demonized.
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Campus & Community
Around the Schools: Faculty of Arts and Sciences
Iconic musicals such as “Fiddler on the Roof” form the core of Carol Oja’s course “American Musicals, American Culture,” but students recently got an inside look at the contemporary scene through visits from composers Lin-Manuel Miranda (“In the Heights”) and Joshua Schmidt (“The Adding Machine”).
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Campus & Community
Steven Pinker wins George A. Miller Prize in Cognitive Neuroscience
Steven Pinker, the Johnstone Family Professor of Psychology in the Department of Psychology, was named this year’s winner of the George A. Miller Prize in Cognitive Neuroscience, presented by the James S. McDonnell Foundation.
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Campus & Community
EPA recognizes Harvard as a leader in green power purchasers
Harvard University has been announced as one of three schools in the Ivy League that were recognized by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency as 2009-10 Collective Conference Champions for using green power.
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Campus & Community
Shinagel receives service citation
Michael Shinagel, Harvard dean of Continuing Education and University Extension, is the recipient of the 2010 Walton S. Bittner Service Citation from the University Continuing Education Association (UCEA).
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Campus & Community
Kaelin among Canada Gairdner Award recipients
William Kaelin, a physician-scientist at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, has been named one of seven recipients of the 2010 Canada Gairdner Award.
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Campus & Community
Lifetime achievement award presented to Spengler and Buckley
The New England Office of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has awarded the Harvard Extension School’s John Spengler, and George Buckley an Environmental Merit Lifetime Achievement Award in recognition of their exceptional work and commitment to the environment.
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Campus & Community
Walton appointed assistant professor of African American religions
Social ethicist and African American religious studies scholar Jonathan Walton has been named assistant professor of African American religions at Harvard Divinity School, effective July 1.
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Arts & Culture
Building on tradition
A Wampanoag home, called a wetu, is built on the site of Harvard’s Indian College.
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Arts & Culture
Classical literature of India ‘unlocked’
The Murty family’s endowed series will bring the classical literature of India, much of which remains locked in its original language, to a global audience.
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Arts & Culture
The invention of childhood innocence
In a new book, Harvard professor Robin Bernstein says that the concept of childhood innocence only dates to the 19th century, and was only applied to whites.
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Arts & Culture
One Report: Integrated Reporting for a Sustainable Strategy
Harvard Business School Senior Lecturer Robert G. Eccles and his co-writer explain how business’s use of integrated and transparent reporting of financial and nonfinancial results adds value to companies, their shareholders, and the overall sustainability of society.
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Arts & Culture
No Small Matter: Science on the Nanoscale
Felice Frankel, a research associate in systems biology at Harvard Medical School, and her co-author help to explain nanoscale technology with a book of thorough explanations and colorful, illustrative photographs.