Campus & Community
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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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Harvard to advance corporate engagement strategy
Findings by 2 committees highlight opportunities for growth and expansion
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‘Truly the best’
65 staffers honored as ‘Harvard Heroes’ for ‘exemplary’ service to University’s mission
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Projects help students ‘build bridges’ across differences
Online games and small group discussions provide opportunities for people with contrasting points of view to engage
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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.
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Renewing Harvard’s library system
Setting a fresh course for the future of the Harvard library system, University leaders have embraced a series of recommendations from the Library Implementation Work Group to establish a coordinated management structure and increasingly focus resources on the opportunities presented by new information technology.
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They ride by dawn
With roots dating to 1890, an eclectic group gathers each fall for the cycling season, learning the rules of the road and having fun.
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What’s possible
The annual Arts & Humanities and Social Science Digital Technology Fair at Harvard’s Barker Center offers student and faculty a chance to explore the wide range of digital resources available for research and teaching.
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Harvard encourages community to shop local this season
Harvard University and the Harvard Square Business Association (HSBA) are teaming up again this holiday season to encourage the Harvard community to “think Harvard Square” and shop locally.
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Harvard Overseer to perform at Nobel ceremony
Harvard Board of Overseers member and virtuoso violinist Lynn Chang ’75 was selected by the Norwegian Nobel Peace Prize Committee to perform at the 2010 Nobel Peace Prize ceremonies in Oslo, Norway, on Dec. 10.
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Harvard Foundation honors Jagland
The Harvard Foundation presented its annual Humanitarian Award to Thorbjørn Jagland, chairman of the Nobel Peace Prize Committee and secretary-general of the Council of Europe.
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Book award named in Middle East scholar’s honor
The Middle East Studies Association announced a new book award named for Professor Roger Owen of Harvard’s Center for Middle Eastern Studies.
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Two named Marshall Scholars
Harvard seniors Kenzie Bok and Jonathan Warsh have received prestigious Marshall Scholarships, which will allow them to pursue two years of graduate study in the United Kingdom at the universities of their choice.
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HBS’s Charles Christenson, 80
Royal Little Professor of Business Administration Emeritus Charles J. Christenson died of natural causes at his Cambridge, Mass., home at the age of 80.
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‘100 Reasons To Give’
With Harvard Community Gifts: 100 Reasons To Give, you can support one or more diverse organizations with a donation through payroll deduction or by check.
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Peering into their futures
Three Harvard College seniors and a first-year Harvard Medical School student are among the 32 American men and women named as 2011 Rhodes Scholars.
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The Game 2010
The classic fall showdown as a second-half deluge lifts the Crimson
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HSPH professor awarded for diabetes research
Columbia University Medical Center presented the 2010 Naomi Berrie Award to Gökhan S. Hotamisligil, the James Stevens Simmons Professor of Genetics and Metabolism and the chair of the Department of Genetics and Complex Diseases at the Harvard School of Public Health.
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Rhodes Scholars announced
Three Harvard undergraduates and a first-year Harvard Medical School student are among the 32 American men and women named Rhodes Scholars.
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Second-half deluge lifts Crimson
Harvard football gets by Yale, 28-21, with three unanswered touchdowns. A photo gallery and video capture the day, the traditions.
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Brian Marsden, astronomer and comet predictor, 73
Brian Marsden passed away on Nov. 18 after a prolonged illness at the age of 73. He was a supervisory astronomer at the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory and an associate of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics.
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48 seniors elected to Phi Beta Kappa
Forty-eight seniors were recently elected to the Harvard College chapter of Phi Beta Kappa, Alpha Iota of Massachusetts.
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Harvard prof wins prize for criminology study
The 2011 Stockholm Prize in Criminology has been jointly awarded to John Laub of the National Institute of Justice and Harvard’s Henry Ford II Professor of the Social Sciences Robert Sampson for their research showing why and how criminals stop offending.
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Ceramics Program hosts holiday show and sale
The Ceramics Program of Harvard’s Office for the Arts will present its annual holiday show and sale Dec. 9-12 at 219 Western Ave. in Allston.
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PBHA launches holiday gift drive
Phillips Brooks House has launched Harvard’s annual holiday gift drive — an effort to collect more than 1,000 gifts for children in Boston and Cambridge.
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Three scholars recognized for music contributions
Three scholars from Harvard’s Music Department received prizes at the Society for Ethnomusicology conference in Los Angeles in early November.
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Keeping creature company
For 33 years, José Rosado has taken care of more than 300,000 amphibians and reptiles in Harvard’s Museum of Comparative Zoology.