Campus & Community
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A walking elegy, tiny gallery, and gentle Brutalism
Photography professor recommends 3 local spots to find beauty, solace
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Faber appointed chief development officer for Faculty of Arts and Sciences
New associate vice president and dean of development for FAS to begin Aug. 25
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IT Summit focuses on balancing AI challenges and opportunities
With the tech here to stay, Michael Smith says professors, students must become sophisticated users
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When the falcons come home to roost
Birds of prey have rebounded since DDT era and returned to Memorial Hall. Now new livestream camera offers online visitors front row seat of storied perch.
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John C.P. Goldberg named Harvard Law School dean
John C.P. Goldberg named Harvard Law School dean Leading scholar in tort law and political philosophy has served as interim leader since March 2024
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Federal judge blocks Trump plan to ban international students at Harvard
Ruling notes administration action raises serious constitutional concerns
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It’s title time!
Oliver McNally made four free throws in the final seconds and scored 14 of his 17 points in the second half, while Brandyn Curry drained four 3-pointers, finishing with 12 points, as the Harvard men’s basketball team clinched at least a share of its second straight Ivy League title with a 67-63 win at Cornell Saturday evening.
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In OT thriller, Harvard upends Columbia, 77-70
Keith Wright scored 16 points on 8-of-11 shooting and had eight rebounds, while Kyle Casey had 19 points, as the Harvard men’s basketball team earned a 77-70 win in overtime on the road at Columbia Friday.
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Bridging the gap
Two Harvard pediatric cancer researchers at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute (DFCI) and a scientist at Columbia University Medical Center have each received $100,000 Bridge Grants from a private foundation seeking to help make up for declining federal biomedical research funding.
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Faculty Council meeting for Feb. 29
At the Feb. 29 meeting of the Faculty Council, its members approved proposals for a Ph.D. program in education and to change the schedule of regular meetings of the Faculty in the Rules of Faculty Procedure.
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Lady Gaga, Winfrey target bullying
Lady Gaga and her mother Cynthia Germanotta launched the Born This Way Foundation, a youth empowerment initiative, at Harvard’s Sanders Theatre on Feb. 29.
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‘Your Medical Mind’ explored
The third John Harvard Book Celebration Lecture featured Harvard doctors and best-selling authors Jerome Groopman and Pamela Hartzband, who tackled the topic “Your Medical Mind: How to Decide When Experts Disagree.” The next lecture is March 1 at the Parker Hill Branch of the Boston Public Library in Roxbury.
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Legend is recognized
Nine-time Grammy winner John Legend was serenaded by Harvard singers and had a front-row seat to the student dance performances at the 27th Cultural Rhythms, an annual festival hosted by the Harvard Foundation, on Feb. 25.
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Vogel wins Gelber Prize for book
Henry Ford II Professor of the Social Sciences Emeritus Ezra F. Vogel has won the 2012 Lionel Gelber Prize for his book “Deng Xiaoping and the Transformation of China.”
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Guardian editor to lecture, receive honors
Alan Rusbridger, editor of the British-based Guardian newspaper, will address an audience of students, faculty, journalists, and members of the public on March 6 at the Harvard Kennedy School.
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Five named Sloan Fellows
Five professors have been named Sloan Fellows by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation.
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May 14 memorial for David Wheeler
A memorial service has been set for longtime A.R.T. resident director David Wheeler, who died Jan. 4.
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Penn stuns Harvard, 55-54
The Harvard men’s basketball team controlled much of the second half, but Ivy League rival Penn scored 15 of the last 20 points to stun the Crimson, 55-54 on Feb 25. The Crimson face Columbia on March 2.
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Challenges to address
The issues selected for the President’s Challenge for social entrepreneurship were announced during a special kickoff on Wednesday at the Harvard Innovation Lab (i-lab), which is hosting the challenge.
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Historian’s book a prize finalist
Professor Maya Jasanoff is one of three finalists for the $50,000 George Washington Book Prize for “Liberty’s Exiles: American Loyalists in the Revolutionary World,” published by Knopf.
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Barbara Lindsay Norton, 20-year staffer, dies
Barbara Lindsay Norton, a longtime Harvard employee, died on Feb. 17 in North Andover, Mass., after illness.
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Eight from Harvard headed Down Under
The Harvard Club of Australia Foundation has announced fellowship awards to eight accomplished Harvard researchers intending collaborative scientific research in Australia during 2012, and to two Australian researchers headed to Harvard.
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Sabeti named Young Global Leader
Assistant Professor of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology Pardis Sabeti has been selected as a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum.
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Harvard tennis pro nabs honors
Harvard’s Head Tennis Professional Michael L. Mercier has been named Professional Tennis Registry (PTR) Member of the Year for the State.
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Faculty Council meeting held Feb. 15
At the Feb. 15 meeting of the Faculty Council, its members considered proposals for a Ph.D. program in education and to change the schedule of regular meetings of the Faculty in the rules of faculty procedure. They also met with President Drew Faust to ask and answer questions as representatives of the faculty.
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How Social Networks are like Carbon – Nicholas Christakis – Harvard Thinks Big
Nicholas Christakis Professor of Sociology (FAS) and Professor of Medical Sociology (Harvard Medical School) and and Professor of Medicine (Harvard Medical School)
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Making the World Smaller – Daniel Lieberman – Harvard Thinks Big
Daniel Lieberman Professor of Human Evolutionary Biology
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Confusion, Play and Postponing Certainty – Eleanor Duckworth – Harvard Thinks Big
Eleanor Duckworth Professor of Education Harvard Graduate School of Education
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Stimulating Cells – Doug Melton – Harvard Thinks Big
Doug Melton Thomas Dudley Cabot Professor of the Natural Sciences at Harvard University and co-Director of the Harvard Stem Cell Institute
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Act Big: Dare to See – Kaia Stern – Harvard Thinks Big
Kaia Stern Director of the Prison Studies Project Visiting Faculty at Harvard Divinity School Visiting Faculty in Sociology at Harvard University Visiting Faculty in African and African American Studies at Harvard University
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GSAS Dean Allan Brandt to step down
Harvard Graduate School of Arts and Sciences Dean Allan M. Brandt, who pioneered a new approach to curricular development with the launch of the Graduate Seminars in General Education, announced Feb. 15 that he will step down as GSAS dean this spring owing to health considerations. He plans to return to the faculty when his treatment is concluded.
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Immersed in the body politic
Susan Greenhalgh, a new professor in Harvard’s anthropology department, studies China’s controversial one-child policy, finding lessons for American health policymakers, too.
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The magic of beanbags
Two high school friends brought an old-fashioned backyard tossing game with them when they entered Harvard, and now it’s an official club sport.
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A life reborn, a story now told
Escaping Cambodia’s violence, Aun Em gradually built a new life, becoming IT coordinator at Harvard Medical School and a passionate advocate for women.
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A look inside: Eliot House
In Eliot House, interested students flock to a basement woodshop to construct tables, boxes, or chairs, to turn vases or bowls, or to create other works.
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Slowing down to see more
An undergraduate finds her path to satisfying public service by searching among the alternatives she sampled to discover the best fit for her.