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  • Know your gnomon

    Professor John Huth of Harvard’s Department of Physics gave a one-hour overview of his popular General Education course, “Primitive Navigation,” to freshmen and their families on Oct. 14. The talk was part of the annual Freshman Parents Weekend program of lectures, tours, and open houses.

  • Harvard 375th – History in Photographs

    A look back at photographs of Harvard through the years.

  • Alumni honored with Hiram Hunn Award

    The Harvard Admissions Office has recognized select alumni with the Hiram Hunn Award.

  • Harvard’s 375th Anniversary Celebration

    On Friday evening, October 14th 2011, in Tercentenary Theatre, Harvard’s extended family of faculty, students, staff, alumni and invited guests gathered together for a festive evening featuring fabulous desserts and a memorable musical performance. The Harvard Radcliffe Orchestra performed, accompanied by a chorus of over a hundred student voices followed by a solo performance by our own international celebrity cellist, Yo-Yo Ma ‘76.

  • 375th party under the umbrellas

    Harvard writers and photographers ventured to all corners of the campus and captured the University’s 375th anniversary celebration.

  • Zakaria to speak at Commencement

    Harvard names Fareed Zakaria, an alumnus who is a thought leader on international affairs, as principal speaker for the 361st Commencement in May.

  • Answer to today’s trivia question

      Question: Who was the first woman to receive an honorary degree from Harvard? Answer: Helen Keller, in 1955 Read about Keller’s life of letters and philanthropy. For more information…

  • Standing as a community

    More than 50 students, faculty members, and administrators gathered Wednesday night to commemorate National Coming Out Day and to memorialize the BGLTQ students nationwide who committed suicide in recent years following harassment.

  • One-stop service

    While many members of the Harvard community were enjoying their summer break, the University’s parking, housing, and ID services were unified into one beautifully renovated Campus Service Center.

  • Faculty Council meeting held Oct. 12

    At the Oct. 12 meeting of the Faculty Council, its members met with Provost Alan M. Garber to ask and answer questions as representatives of the faculty. They also discussed the Harvard Library.

  • Fight fiercely, Harvard

    Boxing has longstanding roots at the University. A required sport in the halcyon days of Theodore Roosevelt, today the Harvard Boxing Club is keeping tradition alive, but with a modern twist — its inclusion of women.

  • A look inside: Quincy House

    Quincy House residents get down and dirty in the Mimi Aloian Pottery Studio.

  • Health care changes ahead

    Open enrollment begins Oct. 27 at Harvard. Until Nov. 9, faculty, staff, and retirees can make changes to their benefits, elect a new vision care plan, and review 2012 rates and features for Harvard’s health plans.

  • Breakthrough

    In science and medicine and across the humanities, Harvard has a legacy of transformative intellectual breakthroughs.

  • Case Method

    Todd Rakoff Byrne Professor of Administrative Law, Harvard Law School

  • Sports Helmets, Catcher’s Mask

    Thomas J. Gill IV Associate Professor of Orthopedic Surgery, Harvard Medical School Chief, MGH Sports Medicine Service

  • Reshaping the Humanities

    Stephen Greenblatt Cogan University Professor

  • Multiple Intelligences

    Tina Grotzer Associate Professor of Education, Harvard Graduate School of Education

  • Harvard Stories launches

    Over the course of its history, Harvard has been home to hundreds of thousands of people who have as many stories to tell. As it celebrates its 375th anniversary, the University is launching Harvard Stories, a video oral-history project that showcases engaging personal narratives from members of the Harvard community.

  • Search begins for new dean of Harvard Divinity School

    President Drew Faust announces the search for a new dean for the Harvard Divinity School. To assist in the search process, faculty members from the Divinity School and the Faculty of Arts and Sciences will serve on an advisory committee.

  • Leading Business Education

    Nitin Nohria Dean, Harvard Business School Richard P. Chapman Professor of Business Administration

  • How to build a party

    Preparations are under way for Harvard’s 375th celebration in Tercentenary Theatre on Friday. Wondering how to plan a party for 5,000 of your closest friends? Find out what you’ll need.

  • FY11 fundraising results announced

    Despite continuing economic uncertainty, Harvard University raised $639 million in cash through fundraising efforts in fiscal year 2011, the third-highest total in the University’s history.

  • Earning her education by degree

    Administrator Barbara Elfman, who interrupted her studies to raise her family, is using the TAP program to earn her master’s at Harvard.

  • Harvard Boxing Club

    Boxing Club helps students learn to take a punch — in life

  • Faculty contribute essays to new book

    Three Harvard faculty members have contributed essays to a new book, “Social Knowledge in the Making,” to be published Oct. 14 by the University of Chicago Press.

  • Jan Merrill-Oldham, preservation librarian, dies

    Jan Merrill-Oldham, Harvard’s Malloy-Rabinowitz Preservation Librarian from 1995 to 2010 and the driving force in developing the renowned preservation programs in the Harvard Library, died Oct. 5 at her home in Cambridge.

  • Film Forum to host Gardner retrospective

    The Film Forum in New York City will host a one-week retrospective of documentarian and ethnographer Robert Gardner’s influential films from Nov. 11 to Nov. 17.

  • Harvard’s Birthday Cake

    Harvard University is celebrating its 375th birthday this year, and we needed a REALLY big cake. Joanne Chang (’91), the owner of Flour Bakery, obliged.

  • Voices from the trees

    To celebrate the University’s 375th anniversary, excerpts of famous speeches will play on loop from trees in Harvard Yard.