Sylvia Mathews Burwell ’87, former president of American University and former secretary of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, has been elected president of the Harvard University Board…
Harvard scientists are participating in the Cambridge Science Festival, 10 days of events where experts in technology, engineering, and math share research with the public.
Professor S. Allen Counter will receive the Museum of African American History’s 2012 Living Legends Award alongside Massachusetts First Lady Diane B. Patrick and baseballer Jim Rice.
At the April 25 meeting of the Faculty Council, its members approved the Harvard Extension School courses for 2012-13 and Courses of Instruction for 2012-13. They also heard a review of the Ph.D. program in biostatistics and updates on College Standing Committees.
Nobel Laureate and onetime Harvard professor Seamus Heaney will reprise a 1986 poem at Commencement this year, celebrating Harvard in its 375th year – and inspiring a new a cappela work by Richard Beaudoin.
The Phillips Brooks House Association’s ninth annual Summer Urban Program auction raised funds to run 12 summer day camps for low-income children and teens from the Greater Boston area.
Harvard President Drew Faust announced on April 25 the appointment of Jonathan L. Walton as Pusey Minister in the Memorial Church and Plummer Professor of Christian Morals, succeeding the late Rev. Peter J. Gomes.
Rising sophomores are connecting with each other, their new House, and the community this spring through Harvard College Serves (HCS). Launched this year by the College Events Board, HCS joins incoming freshmen with House public service student representatives and public service tutors for volunteer projects at area nonprofits.
A memorial service celebrating the life of Mallinckrodt Professor of Biochemistry Emeritus Paul Doty will be held on May 4 at 3 p.m. in the Memorial Church.
The Harvard men’s soccer team took on the Haiti National Team in a match to benefit the Haitian Football Federation and Partners In Health April 22 at Harvard Stadium.
University leaders, donors, alumni, professors past and present, representatives from the city of Cambridge, and members of the architectural firm Robert A.M. Stern Architects participated in the dedication of Harvard Law School’s Wasserstein Hall, Caspersen Student Center, Clinical Wing Building on April 20.
More than 150 students and family members participated in Family Math Night at the Gardner Pilot Academy. The academy had support from the Harvard Achievement Support Initiative.
A study by researchers at the Ragon Institute of Massachusetts General Hospital, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and Harvard is among those chosen to receive Top 10 Clinical Research Achievement Awards from the Clinical Research Foundation.
The Office for the Arts at Harvard (OFA) and the Council on the Arts at Harvard, a standing committee of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, announced the recipients of the annual undergraduate arts prizes for 2012.
It has played host to farmers markets, seen musical performances, and been the site of a skating rink. Now, the plaza outside Harvard’s Science Center is about to be refurbished, with the goal of transforming it from a pedestrian walkway into a vibrant meeting space for Harvard student, faculty, and staff events, and the surrounding community.
A program at Widener Library rescues vulnerable holdings from its 65 miles of shelves by linking alert students with Harvard authorities on conservation and digitization.
A new complex at Harvard Law School is designed to pull its offshoots together, while promoting collaboration and interaction. Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court Elena Kagan will be on hand to dedicate the new building on April 20.
Museum exhibition designer Danielle Hanrahan always loved art and nature. A late-in-life career move to the Harvard Herbaria allowed her a chance to explore the latter.
The Harvard Alumni Association (HAA) announced that Raphael W. Bostic ’87 has been chosen by his classmates to serve as chief marshal for Commencement 2012 as the University concludes its yearlong 375th anniversary celebration.
Stephen Greenblatt, the John Cogan University Professor of the Humanities, was awarded the 2012 Pulitzer Prize for general nonfiction for “The Swerve: How the World Became Modern.”
Harvard will host a live outdoor simulcast of the American Repertory Theater’s production of “Woody Sez: The Life and Music of Woody Guthrie” on May 17. Tickets are available May 3.
The American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) presented Alan D. D’Andrea with the 52nd Annual AACR G.H.A. Clowes Memorial Award for his work in understanding cancer survival and progression.
On April 12, hundreds of staff, students, and faculty gathered to recognize more than 60 individual and team winners at the third annual Green Carpet Awards hosted by the Office for Sustainability.
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