Campus & Community

At a Meeting of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences on March 6, 2012, the Minute honoring the life and service of the late Leon Kirchner, Walter Bigelow Rosen Professor of Music Emeritus, was placed upon the records. Professor Kirchner reoriented the study and practice of music beyond academic disciplines to include performance and founded the Harvard Chamber Orchestra.

In its first trip to the NCAA Men’s Division 1 Basketball Championship tournament in decades, the Harvard men’s team slashed an 18-point deficit to 5 before falling to heralded Vanderbilt, 79-70. Despite the loss, the Crimson and their fans can look back on an Ivy title and a record 26 wins — and forward to a bright future.

Picked to finish last, men’s hockey makes late-season run in ECAC playoffs, finishing one win shy of the national tournament

Forget nutrition labels and calorie counting. Michelle Gallant, a clinical dietitian at Harvard University Health Services, is on a one-woman mission to teach how proper eating means trusting your gut.

At a Meeting of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences on March 6, 2012, the Minute honoring the life and service of the late Oscar Handlin, Carl M. Loeb University Professor Emeritus, was placed upon the records. Professor Handlin was the most influential and creative historian of American social life in the second half of the twentieth century.

Close to 300 members of the Harvard community participated in Team Fitness Challenge, logging nearly 200,000 minutes of running, aerobics, yoga, Zumba, and weight training.

Harvard University announced March 21 that it has signed an agreement with the United States Army to re-establish a formal on-campus relationship with the Army Senior Reserve Officers’ Training Corps (SROTC).

Harvard University announced today that well-known Boston business executive and philanthropist Joseph J. O’Donnell ’67, M.B.A. ’71, a longtime Harvard benefactor, and his wife, Katherine A. O’Donnell, have donated $30 million to the University.

A memorial service for James Q. Wilson, former Henry Lee Shattuck Professor of Government at Harvard, will be held on April 13.

Harvard women’s basketball team knocked off Hofstra Thursday night, 73-71, to become the first team in Ivy League history to record a win in the Women’s National Invitation Tournament (WNIT) on Thursday.

“Ashkelon 3: The Seventh Century B.C.,” a publication co-written by Semitic Museum Director Lawrence Stager, has won the Irene Levi-Sala Book Prize.

Laurent Rivard had 20 points, but the 12th-seeded Harvard men’s basketball team fell in the second round of the NCAA tournament to No. 5 seed Vanderbilt by a score of 79-70 Thursday evening at University Arena.

Dorrit Cohn ’45, Ernest Bernbaum Professor of Literature Emeritus, died March 11. A professor of German and comparative literature, Cohn was one of three women appointed to the Faculty of Arts and Sciences in 1971.

The men’s basketball team at Harvard University returns to the NCAA tournament for the first time since 1946.

Jill Lepore David Woods Kemper ’41 Professor of American History

The Harvard men’s basketball team was awarded a 12 seed in the NCAA basketball tournament and will travel to Albuquerque, N.M., to take on No. 5 Vanderbilt in the second round, the NCAA announced Sunday.

David Valek scored a hat trick, and Alex Killorn added two goals and two assists to lead the Harvard men’s hockey team to an 8-2 win against rival Yale on Sunday in the deciding game of an ECAC Hockey quarterfinal series.

Harvard’s Alphonse Fletcher University Professor Henry Louis Gates Jr. will be honored at City University of New York School of Law’s annual Public Interest Law Association Gala and Auction benefit March 23.

The Real Estate Academic Initiative at Harvard is offering its second round of grants of the academic year to support real estate and urban development research by Harvard faculty and students.

We take a fresh look at Housing Day, one of the many hallowed traditions at Harvard University.

Throughout the Harvard community, students, faculty, staff, and alumni/ae are working every day across disciplines and around the globe to generate innovative ideas and solutions. Here are just a few examples.

Medicine, business, politics….You never know where the spark of innovation may originate at Harvard.

What can termites teach us about building complex computer systems?

Our bodies repair and regenerate with the help of compound structures at the end of chromosomes called telomeres. But as these telomeres weaken, we age. Harvard swimmer Meaghan Leddy COL ’12 explains how Harvard scientists are exploring ways to reverse the symptoms of aging by increasing the levels of a certain enzyme to keep our telomeres healthy.

Students from all disciplines flock to Computer Science 1, or “CS50,” one of the most popular offerings at Harvard.

Harvard researchers and clinicians collaborate across disciplines and around the globe to craft solutions to the world’s toughest health challenges.

Jeremy Geidt, lecturer on dramatic arts and senior actor at the American Repertory Theater (A.R.T.), recounts a few memorable moments in Harvard’s history.

The roots of innovation at Harvard can often be found in its students.

Maya Jasanoff and her faculty colleagues gathered at the Tsai Auditorium on Feb. 16 and March 7 to consider how the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) may look in a generation. The discussions were part of the Conversations @ FAS series, which this year asks some of Harvard’s leading scholars to imagine the faculty at 400.

In lecture halls, laboratories, and spaces across Harvard, dedicated teachers including Kevin Kit Parker, Gordon McKay Professor of Bioengineering and Applied Physics in the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, are creating fertile environments for innovation, championing bold ideas and encouraging students to think in new ways.