Campus & Community
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Searching for answers to life’s big questions
Kelsey Hanson Woodruff served as Presbyterian minister before quest to study the meaning of life led her to Harvard
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‘There are secrets to unlock’
Harvard’s practice of preservation plays key role in future research
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Ready to listen
Incoming board president Will Makris hopes alumni will share experiences and learn from one another
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Bringing startup energy to whatever he does
Michael Oved builds community around passions for entrepreneurship, Republican politics
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Harvard amends lawsuit to push back against new funding cuts
Government is seeking to ‘micromanage’ University, complaint says, posing threat to advances in health and science
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David Deming named Harvard College dean
Economist who serves as Kirkland House faculty leader begins in new role July 1
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Towering figure in organic chemistry
Yoshito Kishi was a towering figure in organic chemistry renowned for his syntheses of complex natural products.
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Maybe it’s Remy’s world, and the rest of us just live in it
With Remy the cat as their model, Graduate School of Design students learned how animal life can encourage empathy in design.
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Addressing our legacy
Inaugural Vice Provost for Special Projects Sara Bleich gets started in her role, and discusses what’s ahead for the Harvard & the Legacy of Slavery Initiative.
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Harvard University Housing establishes new rents for 2023–2024
The rents noted have been reviewed and endorsed by the Faculty Advisory Committee on Harvard University Housing and will take effect for the 2023-2024 leasing season.
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An exhibit with legs
Harvard’s Pacific octopus specimen has lived on campus since about 1883. Now, fully restored, the model hangs in the Northwest Labs building.
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Listening to air, water
Leanne Betasamosake Simpson discusses how she blends work and climate change activism.
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Jennifer Coolidge named Hasty’s Woman of the Year
Jennifer Coolidge has been named as the recipient of its 2023 Woman of the Year Award, Hasty Pudding Theatricals announced today.
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Bob Odenkirk named Hasty’s Man of the Year
The actor, comedian, and filmmaker will receive his Pudding Pot at a celebratory roast on February 2.
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No stranger to improvisation
Bass player, composer, vocalist Devon Gates merges anthropology, music in Harvard-Berklee program.
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3 Harvard seniors named Marshall Scholars
Three Harvard College seniors were among the 40 winners of the 2023 Marshall Scholarship.
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Alumni committee nominates Overseer, HAA elected director candidates
Elections for new members of the Harvard Board of Overseers and elected directors of the Harvard Alumni Association will begin March 31.
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Women take the lead
A Harvard Division of Continuing Education program addresses the challenges faced by women leaders and their senior managers.
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A bit of chemistry, a bit of rock ’n’ roll
Nobel laureate Carolyn Bertozzi ’88 demonstrated talent for science, creativity even as a Harvard undergrad.
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Our favorite pictures of 2022 have a theme: Zoom, out
Harvard photographers document the vibrant return to campus life after two years of pandemic restrictions.
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‘I love this place’
New President-elect Claudine Gay is introduced to Harvard community.
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On campus and beyond, rise of ‘natural leader’ cause for celebration
Claudine Gay’s election as Harvard’s next president was greeted with joy and praise by scholars on Thursday.
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College accepts 722 under early action program
A pool of 9,553 students applied under the early action program with 722 accepted.
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Harvard names Claudine Gay 30th president
Social scientist and dean of largest University faculty excited to seize ‘moment of possibility’
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Through the looking glass
A kaleidoscopic view of campus.
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Harvard creates first University-wide conference center
David Rubenstein Treehouse to serve as convening, innovation hub, “front door” to Enterprise Research Campus in Allston.
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International Rhodes, Mitchell scholars announced
Two Harvard seniors headed to England, one to Ireland to take deeper dives into concentration disciplines.
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Behind the data, a teacher who left his students transformed
Harvard sociologist Chris Winship’s last class is a cause for celebration and reflection.
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Cornelius Searle Hurlbut Jr., 99
At a meeting of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences on Dec. 6, 2022, the following tribute to the life and service of the late Cornelius Searle Hurlbut, Jr., was spread upon the permanent records of the Faculty.
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Guido Guidotti, 87
At a meeting of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences on Dec. 6, 2022, the following tribute to the life and service of the late Guido Guidotti was spread upon the permanent records of the Faculty
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Jene Andrew Golovchenko, 72
At a meeting of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences on Dec. 6, 2022, the following tribute to the life and service of the late Jene Andrew Golovchenko was spread upon the permanent records of the Faculty.
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Sean Caron named vice president for campus services
Former managing director of Harvard Real Estate to begin new post Jan. 3.
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Princess makes most of Harvard visit
On Friday, the Princess of Wales visited Harvard’s Center on the Developing Child as part of a visit to the U.S.
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Biography of a place
Harvard course asks students to write a history of the Radcliffe Quadrangle.
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13 projects win grants to continue fostering diversity, inclusion on campus
Office for Equity, Diversity, Inclusion, and Belonging selects 13 Harvard projects as winners of the Harvard Culture Lab Innovation Fund Grants.
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Sarah Karmon named new HAA executive director
Sarah Karmon will succeed Philip Lovejoy as the new HAA executive director. She will be the first woman to take the top administrative role for alumni group.