Campus & Community
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Kareem Abdul-Jabbar named Class Day speaker
NBA icon, award-winning author, and humanitarian chosen for ‘his lasting efforts to build a more just and compassionate world’
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Harvard files lawsuit against Trump administration
Filing argues freeze of research funding violates First Amendment, laws, procedures
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Endowment offers Harvard flexibility but also risks
Economist speaks of balancing act between immediate needs and long-term planning
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Slave trade database moving to Harvard
Publicly accessible digital tool compiles four decades of scholarship on more than 30,000 voyages and 200,000 people.
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‘This is weakening the United States.’
Scholars react to Trump administration actions against Harvard and other institutions
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The food was good. The conversation was better.
‘Our Harvard’ brings students together to tackle tough issues
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Committee to review request to dename Winthrop House
Inquiry led by Professor Sean Kelly will report findings to Gay, Hoekstra
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Stepping toward justice
Repair & Responsibility conference brings together Native, University leaders to advance conversation
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Harvard & the Legacy of Slavery launches first grant program
Seeks proposals from community, Harvard that will address systemic inequities
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10 from Harvard named Rhodes Scholars
Nine U.S. recipients, one international; areas of study include higher education, philosophy, neuroscience
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A minority within a minority — women vets at College
They come from different backgrounds, but all agree on need to put themselves out there and hang in
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Hilary Whitehall Putnam, 89
At a meeting of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences on Nov. 7, 2023, the following tribute to the life and service of the late Hilary Whitehall Putnam was spread…
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Franco Fido, 88
At a meeting of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences on Nov. 7, 2023, the following tribute to the life and service of the late Franco Fido was spread upon…
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Oh. My. Gourd.
The stunt was a fundraiser for Harvard OpenBio, a student-run laboratory aimed at democratizing biology.
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Breaking ground on a groundbreaking project
City and University leaders celebrate mixed-use development in Allston
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‘Sharing scholarship in many different registers’
George Aumoithe rings the bell teaching history, exploring electronic music
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147 sworn in as U.S. citizens at Harvard Business School
Dean commends ‘determination, commitment, and courage’ of honorees hailing from 40-plus countries
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Refreshing Harvard’s halls and walls to reflect ‘21st-century ethos’
Campus curator Brenda Tindal discusses plans to update spaces while honoring past
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Capturing curiosity
Harvard labs open their doors to let a photographer record the essence of discovery
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Celebrating Mass STEM Week with astrophysics and AI
“Astronomy Is for All of Us: Celebrating Women Astrophysicists and the History of Cosmic Discovery” recognized Mass STEM week, a statewide effort to boost high schoolers’ interest in and awareness of science, technology, engineering, and math.
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Peabody Museum charts progress on repatriation
NAGPRA project staff doubled to support three-year commitment for consultation, return of all ancestors and associated funerary belongings.
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Graham Blanks can really motor
First-place finishes pile up for rising cross-country star, who talks about team, goals — and that time he passed the lead car.
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Your period started. Of course the tampon dispenser is empty.
All-too-familiar frustration for women sparked campaign to make menstrual products in campus bathrooms as basic an expectation as toilet paper.
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Hearth and home — in Stone Age
Motivating Professor Amy Elizabeth Clark’s interest is what she calls a “feminist approach” to studying human history.
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Using math as bridge within disciplines
Center of Mathematical Sciences and Applications welcomes new director, a Harvard alum who will explore “beautiful, deep” interactions between mathematics and science.
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Funny thing happened on way to med school
Years at College proved formative for the new women’s ice hockey coach. Now she hopes to help her players find their paths.
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Harvard reports strong financial position, yet urges caution
University expenses outpace revenue for fiscal year 2023.
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What a difference a year makes
Students who described themselves in three words last fall get a chance to change their answers.
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Extending financial aid beyond the Yard
Students with zero parent contribution — those whose annual family income is $85,000 or less — will now receive a $2,000 “launch grant” in the fall of their junior year.
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Andrea Baccarelli named next dean of Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
Andrea Baccarelli, noted scientist, educator, and leader, will begin his new role on Jan. 1
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This woman’s work
Faculty and friends of trailblazing Harvard economist Claudia Goldin react to her historic Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences win.
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‘Those inequalities are inequalities that occur within households’
The Henry Lee Professor was honored for her research on women in the workplace
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Voices, faces, and a forum to make trans students visible
Conference on trans rights puts activism and advocacy front and center.
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Keeping faith in time of political, social backlash
Former Attorney General Loretta Lynch argues arc of moral universe may bend toward justice but is long, requires devotion to progress.
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‘We are not people of the past’
Brings Native students, others from neighboring Indigenous communities together to connect, celebrate roots.
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Carl Neracher Morris, 84
At a meeting of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences on Oct. 3, 2023, the following tribute to the life and service of the late Carl Neracher Morris was spread upon the permanent records of the Faculty.