Campus & Community
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Endowment offers Harvard flexibility but also risks
Economist speaks of balancing act between immediate needs and long-term planning
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Slave trade database moving to Harvard
Publicly accessible digital tool compiles four decades of scholarship on more than 30,000 voyages and 200,000 people.
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‘This is weakening the United States.’
Scholars react to Trump administration actions against Harvard and other institutions
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The food was good. The conversation was better.
‘Our Harvard’ brings students together to tackle tough issues
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New experiences at their fingertips
Course on tactile reading shows students ‘Why Braille Matters’
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Harvard won’t comply with demands from Trump administration
Changes pushed by government ‘unmoored from the law,’ Garber says. ‘The University will not surrender its independence or relinquish its constitutional rights.’
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Don’t just stand there
It’s easy enough to say you value diversity, but honoring that goal can be tricky in context. A workshop on bystander awareness offered strategies on what to do when diversity is challenged in the workplace.
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Harvard College Librarian, Nancy Cline, to retire
After nearly 15 years of exceptional service, Nancy M. Cline, the Roy E. Larsen Librarian of Harvard College, will retire at the end of this academic year.
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Back from Afghanistan
A veteran, now a midcareer student at the Harvard Kennedy School, reflects on the values that his military peers bring to campus. Still, when a sharp noise splits the air, he ducks.
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Aid groups that make a difference
The Harvard Community Gifts Giving Fair brought to campus many local organizations whose missions are helping those in need.
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Corporation Committee on Shareholder Responsibility releases annual report
Harvard’s 2010 annual report of the Corporation Committee on Shareholder Responsibility, a subcommittee of the President and Fellows, is now available upon request from the Office for the Committees on Shareholder Responsibility.
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A look inside: Kirkland House
Holiday festivities are in high gear at Kirkland House.
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Hyman to step down as provost
Provost Steven E. Hyman, who spurred an expansion of interdisciplinary research at Harvard and has overseen the revitalization of the University’s libraries and many of its museums and cultural institutions, plans to leave his post after nearly a decade.
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Law firm honors deceased partner
Law firm Andrews Kurth LLP has created the Richard H. Caldwell Financial Aid Fund, named after its deceased senior partner Richard Caldwell, a 1963 graduate of Harvard Law School.
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Rockefeller fellows chosen for 2011-12
The Michael C. Rockefeller Memorial Fellowships Administrative Board has awarded fellowships to six graduating seniors.
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10 named to new Harvard Library Board
President Drew Faust has announced the names of the first 10 members of the new Harvard Library Board, which will oversee the transition of the University’s vast library system to a coordinated structure.
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Michael P. Burke appointed FAS registrar
Michael P. Burke has been appointed the new registrar for the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, effective Jan. 31.
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HIO seeks international art
The Harvard International Office is seeking submissions of international art for an exhibit. The deadline is Jan. 9.
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At last, the edible science fair
Final projects were displayed Dec. 7 for the “Science and Cooking: From Haute Cuisine to the Science of Soft Matter” science fair. Illustrating the tenacious bond between science and cooking, students used physics, chemistry, and biology to manipulate recipes and create foods that stretch the imagination.
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How we get hooked
Harvard Provost Steven Hyman gave Harvard’s neighbors in the community a taste of the University’s academic workings, with a community lecture on the biological mechanisms behind drug addiction Dec. 7.
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Learning better
In an event at the Harvard Business School’s Spangler Center, author Ellen Galinsky talked to principals, child-care providers, and parents about the “seven essential life skills every child needs.”
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Executive director of Harvard Center Shanghai named
Jeffrey R. Williams was named the inaugural executive director of the Harvard Center Shanghai on Nov. 22.
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Governance Review Culminates in Changes to Harvard Corporation
The Harvard Corporation, the governing board formally known as the President and Fellows of Harvard College, will undertake a number of changes to its composition, structure, and practices, it was announced today (December 6).
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Q&A on Harvard’s changing Corporation
The Harvard Corporation is embracing a number of significant changes, including its first expansion since its creation 360 years ago. President Drew Faust and Robert Reischauer, the Corporation’s senior fellow, discuss the changes that are designed to expand the capacity of the President and Fellows of Harvard College as it guides the University forward.
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Shopping in, and for, the Square
Dozens of staff, faculty, and students — along with local business owners and Harvard President Drew Faust — turned out at Forbes Plaza on Dec. 2 to kick off Crimson Shops Local, an annual effort by the University and the Harvard Square Business Association to encourage shopping nearby for the holidays.
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Registration open for 14-day reading course
Registration is open for the Bureau of Study Counsel’s 14-day Harvard Course in Reading and Study Strategies. The fee is $150.
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Sampson named to Office of Justice advisory board
U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder named Harvard Professor Robert Sampson, the Henry Ford II Professor of the Social Sciences, to the newly created Office of Justice Programs Science Advisory Board on Nov. 23.
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Faculty Council meeting held Dec. 1
A summary of the Faculty Council meeting held on Dec. 1.
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Generally, a happy anniversary
As Harvard’s Gen Ed curriculum expands, it’s drawing ever-widening interest from students and faculty after its first year.
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A look inside: Kirkland House
Within the dark-paneled Junior Common Room of Kirkland House, comedic duo Peter and Bobby Farrelly, the masterminds behind the teenage hilarity in the films “Dumb and Dumber” and “There’s Something About Mary,” entertained a crowd recently as part of the popular series “Conversations with Kirkland.”
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Greening the Kennedy School
Harvard Kennedy School makes quick progress in efforts to conserve energy use, promote recycling.
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In search of Captain Nemo
In this Student Voice column, a senior talks about how he learned to chart his own course while at Harvard.
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Choral director honors tradition
Harvard’s Holden Choirs use one word to describe their new director, Andrew Clark: energy. Clark and Kevin Leong conduct a holiday concert at 8 p.m. Dec. 10.
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Star count of the universe may triple, new study suggests
A study suggests the universe could have triple the number of stars scientists previously calculated.
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Scholars venerable
Retired Harvard faculty, some with astonishing personal stories, are windows onto a vanishing past, even as many continue to work in their fields.
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‘100 Reasons To Give’
The Harvard Community Gifts campaign, which kicked off in December with a new theme — “100 Reasons To Give” — is accepting donations via payroll deduction until Jan. 21.