The Civil Rights Movement spurred Harvard President Drew Faust to youthful activism and influenced her choice to become a historian of the American South, Faust told the Harvard Business School’s first-year class, urging students to keep their desire to make a difference at the forefront of their minds.
At its 13th and final meeting of the year on May 5, the Faculty Council approved next year’s Handbook for Students and Courses of Instruction for the College and the courses for the University Extension School. The council also heard a proposal regarding the administration of final examinations.
The Harvard Black Men’s Forum (BMF), which pays tribute to the contributions that black women have made to Harvard and to society at large, recognized former Cambridge Mayor Denise Simmons, among others, at its Celebration of Black Women event on April 29.
On May 3, more than 250 Harvard athletes from 18 varsity teams took the Palmer-Dixon Gymnasium by storm for the second annual Bench Press for Breast Cancer Challenge, pumping iron and raising greenbacks for the Susan G. Komen for the Cure.
People have about the same risk of having suicidal thoughts or attempting suicide when starting out on antidepressants no matter what type of pill they’re prescribed, new research shows.
Nitin Nohria, the Richard P. Chapman Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School (HBS), will become the School’s 10th dean, President Drew Faust announced today (May 4).
Harvard University and Banco Santander announced a letter of intent today that will enable Harvard to support master’s candidates and visiting fellows from China through participation in Banco Santander’s Marco Polo Program.
Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Annette Gordon-Reed will return to Harvard in July as a professor at the Law School and of history in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences. She also will be the Carol K. Pforzheimer Professor at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study.
Vegan Carol J. Adams speaks about meat eating as more than violence against animals, saying that it’s also often an expression of violence against women.
Lisa Hogarty, a seasoned administrator with experience in academia and the health care industry, has been named vice president for Campus Services at Harvard University.
A graduating Harvard Kennedy School student, herself Native American, ponders the experiences of her predecessors, students at the Indian College in the 1660s.
With the world’s attention focused on global financial reform and responsibility, the Harvard Kennedy School is establishing a professorship dedicated to addressing the challenges of the international financial system.
The Murty family’s endowed series will bring the classical literature of India, much of which remains locked in its original language, to a global audience.
The District of Columbia Public Schools (DCPS) has announced that a team of five Harvard graduate students were named the 2010 winners of The Urban Education Redesign Challenge, for their public engagement and mobilization strategy for DCPS.
The annual Arts First Festival (April 29 to May 2) will take over the sidewalks of Harvard Square and 43 venues across campus, with hundreds of student performers and arts opportunities.
After more than three decades as the head of Harvard’s choral program, Jim Marvin prepares to say farewell. In tribute to Marvin, more than 400 alumni from the choirs will return to campus this weekend (April 30 to May 2) to celebrate his long career with a series of receptions and group sings, and a special tribute concert at Sanders Theatre.
With a culturally diverse student body and more than 80 languages and several hundred courses available for study, Harvard’s commitment is unmatched nationally.
Two documentaries from this year’s Sundance Film Festival had an exclusive screening at the inaugural Gleitsman Social Change Film Forum at the Harvard Kennedy School (HKS).
Rosabeth Moss Kanter, the Ernest L. Arbuckle Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School and chair/director of the Interfaculty Initiative on Advanced Leadership, has been named one of the “125 women who changed our world” over the past 125 years by Good Housekeeping in the May 2010 issue (released April 13) for the magazine’s 125th anniversary.
The Harvard Art Museum announces the appointment of Mary Schneider Enriquez as Houghton Associate Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art in the museum’s Department of Modern and Contemporary Art, effective April 5.
With her spotlight purring like an old projector, Linda Yao ’10 used a steady hand to follow the cast of famed figure skaters as they shaved graceful ribbons into the ice during “An Evening with Champions.”
Iconic musicals such as “Fiddler on the Roof” form the core of Carol Oja’s course “American Musicals, American Culture,” but students recently got an inside look at the contemporary scene through visits from composers Lin-Manuel Miranda (“In the Heights”) and Joshua Schmidt (“The Adding Machine”).
Steven Pinker, the Johnstone Family Professor of Psychology in the Department of Psychology, was named this year’s winner of the George A. Miller Prize in Cognitive Neuroscience, presented by the James S. McDonnell Foundation.
Harvard University has been announced as one of three schools in the Ivy League that were recognized by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency as 2009-10 Collective Conference Champions for using green power.
Michael Shinagel, Harvard dean of Continuing Education and University Extension, is the recipient of the 2010 Walton S. Bittner Service Citation from the University Continuing Education Association (UCEA).
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