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  • Secret history

    FreeThink@Harvard is a new interactive e-learning series sponsored by the Dean of Students Office at Harvard Extension School. Each discussion is led by Harvard faculty and includes a classroom chat with a crowd of Harvard alumni, students, faculty, and staff that is also streamed online.

  • No quit in Crimson

    The season will continue for the Harvard men’s basketball team, despite a heartbreaking loss to Princeton on Saturday (March 12) that cost the squad a spot in the NCAA tournament. The Crimson will square off against Oklahoma State on March 15 in the National Invitational Tournament.

  • Allston’s retail profile rising

    New tenants, including 11 over the past year, have helped to bring Harvard’s vacant Allston properties back to life.

  • Heartbreaker

    What with all the lights, cameras, and raucous action pervading the John J. Lee Amphitheater in New Haven, Conn., this Saturday (March 12), one could be forgiven for thinking that the one-game playoff pitting the Harvard men’s basketball team against Princeton was a scripted affair. Unfortunately for the 2011 Ivy League co-champion Crimson, it was the Tigers who managed to score the Hollywood ending.

  • Signing ceremony welcoming ROTC to Harvard

    Harvard University will again host a Reserve Officers’ Training Corps (ROTC) program on campus. The agreement, signed Friday afternoon, March 4, at Loeb House by Secretary of the Navy Ray Mabus and President Drew Faust, will end a 40-year hiatus.

  • Touring the Yard with John Stilgoe

    Harvard professor John Stilgoe takes viewers on a tour of historic Harvard Yard and explores its many unique and exciting features.

  • A sort of homecoming

    On Harvard’s annual Housing Day, freshmen receive their housing assignments for the next three years.

  • Acting minister appointed

    Wendel W. “Tad” Meyer, who joined the Memorial Church at Harvard University as associate minister for administration in December, will become acting Pusey Minister in the Memorial Church while the University seeks a permanent successor to the late Rev. Peter J. Gomes.

  • The voice of reform

    Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, a Harvard Kennedy School alumna who at great personal risk has played a key role in stabilizing and reviving her nation, will be the principal speaker at Afternoon Exercises of Harvard University’s 360th Commencement in May.

  • The lure of green

    More than 30 energy and environment employers connected with Harvard students at the Office of Career Services’ second annual Energy and Environment Expo.

  • Aiding a pilot school

    Harvard-sponsored math night for elementary-school students and parents at Allston’s Gardner Pilot Academy was the latest collaboration in the University’s long partnership with the school.

  • Scholarship sends student to India

    Isabel Salovaara ’12 will study abroad this semester in Delhi, India, as part of a scholarship from IES Abroad.

  • MPSA awards Daniel Carpenter

    The Midwest Political Science Association (MPSA) has named Daniel Carpenter, Freed Professor of Government, the winner of the 2011 Herbert Simon Award for his career scientific contributions to the study of public administration.

  • College welcomes junior parents

    Harvard faculty, experts, and President Drew Faust welcomed the families of third-year undergraduates to campus and gave the Class of 2012 advice on preparing for life after college during the Junior Parents Weekend (JPW) program, March 4-5. More than 560 students and nearly 1,200 of their guests attended the annual event.

  • Harvard Thinks Big 2: “Escaping the Ivory Tower” – Caroline Elkins

    Caroline Elkins, Professor of History; Chair of the Standing Committee on African Studies; Chair of the Standing Committee on Ethnic Studies

  • Harvard Thinks Big 2: “Triumph in the City” – Edward Glaeser

    Edward Glaeser, Fred and Eleanor Glimp Professor of Economics; Member of the Faculty at the John F. Kennedy School of Government; Director of the Taubman Center for State and Local Government

  • Harvard Thinks Big 2: “From Eye to Mind: Affirming the Union of Science and Art” – Robert Lue

    Robert Lue, Professor of the Practice of Molecular and Cellular Biology; Tutor in Biochemical Sciences; Director of Life Sciences Education

  • Harvard Thinks Big 2: “Beauty as a Call to Justice” – Elaine Scarry

    Elaine Scarry, Walter M. Cabot Professor of Aesthetics and the General Theory of Value; Senior Fellow of the Society of Fellows

  • Harvard Thinks Big 2: “Beyond Point-and-Shoot Morality” – Joshua Greene

    Joshua Greene, Assistant Professor of Psychology

  • Harvard Thinks Big 2: “Experiencing Time in Music” – Richard Beaudoin

    Richard Beaudoin, Lecturer on Music

  • Harvard Thinks Big 2: “Citizens” – Lawrence Lessig

    Lawrence Lessig, Professor of Law

  • Harvard Thinks Big 2: Introductions

    Steven Hyman, Provost; Member of the Board of Snydics of Harvard University Press; Professor of Neurobiology; Peter Davis ’12 and Zachary Richner ’11, Co-Producers and Co-Hosts of Harvard Thinks Big

  • Bill Richardson named IOP spring visiting fellow

    Former governor of New Mexico Bill Richardson has been named a spring visiting fellow at the Institute of Politics.

  • Harvard and ROTC

    At Harvard, military service is regarded as a form of public service. The University’s long history with the Reserve Officers’ Training Corps has provided generations of students with formative leadership opportunities, and it has provided the military with some of its best-educated officers.

  • Signing ceremony welcomes ROTC

    After a 40-year hiatus, Harvard University will again host a Reserve Officers’ Training Corps (ROTC) program on campus, according to an agreement signed Friday (March 4) by President Drew Faust and Navy Secretary Ray Mabus, J.D. ’76.

  • Harvard welcomes back ROTC

    Harvard President Drew Faust and Navy Secretary Ray Mabus today (March 4) signed an agreement that will re-establish the Reserve Officers’ Training Corps (ROTC) formal presence on campus for the first time in nearly 40 years.

  • ROTC on campus

    When introducing Adm. Mike Mullen at a Harvard Kennedy School forum Nov. 17, 2010, Harvard President Drew Faust said, “I want to be the president of Harvard who sees the end of ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell’ because I want to be able to take the steps to ensure that any and every Harvard student is able to make the honorable and admirable choice to commit him- or herself to the nation’s defense.” That aim was reached with the signing of an agreement with the Naval ROTC March 4, 2011.

  • Harvard welcomes back ROTC

    Harvard University announced on Thursday (March 3) that it will formally welcome the Naval Reserve Officers Training Corps (NROTC) program back to campus, following the decision by Congress in December to repeal the “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” law regarding military service.

  • 38 honored with Dean’s Distinction

    Some of Harvard’s most impressive “unsung heroes” took the spotlight on Wednesday (March 2), when 38 Faculty of Arts and Sciences staff members were honored with Dean’s Distinction awards.

  • HBS announces student start-up competition winners

    Harvard Business School’s Arthur Rock Center for Entrepreneurship has announced nine winners of Minimum Viable Product (MVP) Funding, a new pilot program offering $50,000 in total awards to student entrepreneurs working on projects during the School’s winter term.