Physician and acclaimed novelist underlines immigrants’ contributions to Harvard and the nation, urges graduates to show courage, character in the face of hardship
The Harvard Museum of Natural History’s “The Language of Color” exhibition, which was supposed to close in 2009 but remained popular among visitors, will close in October to make way for a new exhibition on Thoreau’s Maine woods, featuring the work of photographer Scot Miller.
Award-winning author and Harvard Professor Jill Lepore will talk about her latest title, “Book of Ages: The Life and Opinions of Jane Franklin,” on Sept. 10 at the Radcliffe Institute.
A memorial service for Harry Parker will be held 2 p.m. Aug. 17 at the Memorial Church in Harvard Yard. There will also be a row in Parker’s honor at 9 a.m. and an afternoon tea at 3:30 p.m.
East Boston elementary school children are exploring and interpreting “The Wizard of Oz” through the creative arts using a program called Pre-Texts, which was developed by Doris Sommer, the Ira and Jewell Williams Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures and director of the Cultural Agents Initiative at Harvard.
Harvard men’s basketball head coach Tommy Amaker has been selected for induction into the Washington Metropolitan Basketball Hall of Fame, adding to the growing list of honors he has received this offseason. The ceremony will be held Sept. 24 at the Omni Shoreham Hotel in Washington, D.C., as part of “An Evening with the Legends of the Game” event.
Harvard’s President’s Innovation Fund for International Experiences has provided a boost to four new programs, as well as providing renewal or extension funding to three other projects.
During a panel discussion, Crimson Summer Academy mentors, themselves graduates of the program, tell current students how they reached their academic goals.
Seoul native Hansung Ryu has returned home from Harvard after two months as an intern at the Joslin Diabetes Center, where he also found time for the Harvard Summer School Orchestra.
While Harvard’s Farmers’ Market is known for transforming the Science Center Plaza into a farm fresh mecca, it also hosts a weekly read-aloud where children of all ages can enjoy stories read by a Cambridge Public Library staff member.
For the 38th year, Harvard and the city of Cambridge hosted more than 1,000 of the city’s senior citizens for a day of food, fun, music, and community.
The Office of Sustainability hosted a “lighting fair” Tuesday that offered members of the Harvard community energy-efficient bulbs at a fraction of their regular cost.
As July — National Ice Cream Month — winds down, the National Weather Service shows Cambridge’s temperatures going back up, so chances are you’ll find someone from the Harvard community dipping into a frozen delight. At Harvard, ice cream is a year-round staple.
Lorna Daniells, a prominent research librarian who worked at Harvard Business School’s Baker Library from 1946 until her retirement in 1985, died on June 11 in Bloomfield, Conn., at the age of 94. During her nearly 40 years at HBS, she served as chair of the library’s reference department from 1970 to 1974, head of the department from 1974 to 1979, and as bibliographer from 1979 to 1985.
An independent report commissioned by President Drew Faust following news of email searches related to cases before the Administrative Board in fall 2012 was released on Monday.
This year, Harvard Summer School’s size and span — 6,000 students; the 50 states, as well as Puerto Rico and American Samoa, and more than 100 countries; an age range of 14 to 81 — demonstrate anew the University’s commitment to diversity.
Swissbäkers expands in Allston with the addition of a playground and outdoor seating, adding vibrancy to Western Avenue. The ribbon cutting is part of Harvard’s continued efforts to focus on revitalizing the community.
The Harvard Allston Education Portal has a summer mentoring program that pairs Harvard undergraduates with schoolchildren from Boston’s Allston-Brighton neighborhood to help find new ways to engage the youngsters in math, science, and writing.
Michael A. Cianfrocco, a postdoctoral fellow in molecular and cellular biology, has been named a fellow by the Damon Runyon Cancer Research Foundation.
Mexican artist Pedro Reyes visited the Arnold Arboretum to plant a hydrangea — using a shovel made from the metal of surrendered firearms — as part of his Palas por Pistolas (Shovels for Guns) program.
President Obama awarded Robert Putnam, the Peter and Isabel Malkin Professor of Public Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School, with the 2012 National Humanities Medal. Also receiving the award was a former Overseer and former faculty member at the Graduate School of Design.
Daniel M. Wegner, a pioneering social psychologist who helped to reveal the mysteries of human experience through his work on thought suppression, conscious will, and mind perception, died July 5 at age 65.
Donald Pfister, Asa Gray Professor of Systematic Botany and dean of the Harvard Summer School, has been appointed interim dean of Harvard College. Pfister’s career at Harvard spans nearly 40 years.
School of Engineering and Applied Sciences graduate William Marks departs Harvard with a hat trick of achievements: a Fulbright Scholarship, a Gates Cambridge Scholarship at Cambridge University in England, and an offer of admission to Harvard Business School’s 2+2 M.B.A. program.
The family of the late William F. Connell, M.B.A. ’63, has donated an additional $10 million to Harvard Business School (HBS) to establish the Margot and William F. Connell Family MBA Program Innovation Fund.
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