Sylvia Mathews Burwell ’87, former president of American University and former secretary of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, has been elected president of the Harvard University Board…
The oldest rivalry in college football dates to 1875, when Harvard and Yale played a bruising game that resembled rugby more than modern football. Back then, fans journeyed by train, horseback, and foot from around New England to view the rough-and-tumble spectacle.
The Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics is giving middle school children in three Massachusetts towns a taste of astronomy, using robotic telescopes they control themselves to fuel their interest in careers in science, technology, engineering, and math.
Dell H. Hymes, 82, an influential linguistic anthropologist and folklorist who taught at Harvard from 1955 to 1960, died in Charlottesville, Va., on Nov. 13.
The Graduate School of Arts and Sciences is offering a wealth of short courses, seminars, and events designed to provide more work or more play, depending on your preference, from Jan. 4 to 24.
Concluding its annual meeting and interviews at Harvard on Nov. 20-21, the Michael C. Rockefeller Memorial Fellowships Administrative Board awarded fellowships to six graduating seniors for 2010-11.
Two Harvard Business School professors, Nancy F. Koehn and Rajiv Lal, have weighed in on the Harvard Business School Web site with their best estimates of how the holiday shopping season will play out. One sees a flat or slightly improved sales period, while the other is guardedly optimistic.
Harvard economic historian Niall Ferguson’s four-part documentary, “The Ascent of Money” (2009), was named Best Documentary at the 37th International Emmy Awards in New York City on Nov. 23.
The Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard presented the Louis M. Lyons Award for Conscience and Integrity in Journalism to slain Sri Lankan newspaper editor Lasantha Wickrematunge and the journalists of Afghanistan on Nov. 17.
Hundreds of Harvard Law School (HLS) students, faculty, and staff gathered in the School’s Pound Hall for a “Thanksgiving for the Troops” event on Nov. 18 to raise money and collect items for soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Mark Barnes has been hired as Harvard University’s chief research compliance officer and senior adviser to the provost and Cathy Gorodentsev has been named the new director of OSP.
The Reischauer Institute names Audrey Ji-eun Kim ’09 and Kathryn Handlir, A.M. ’09, winners of its annual award for outstanding essays on Japan-related topics.
Harvard College has launched a new online Plan of Study tool to help undergraduates outline the courses they will take throughout their four years at Harvard.
The Radcliffe Institute of Advanced Study will look to advance research and promote cooperation among faculty members by providing resources and space that foster collaboration.
The Faculty of Arts and Sciences offered a customized voluntary retirement program to 127 eligible faculty members. At the same time, four of Harvard’s graduate and professional schools unveiled similar plans to eligible members of their faculties.
On Dec. 2, Jay Light, who has been dean of the Business School for the past five years, told the HBS faculty that he is retiring in June. After shepherding the School through some of the most demanding times in its history, he said he was looking forward to having more time to write, to sail, and to spend with his wife. But first the Gazette asked him to glance back over his long career.
It’s hard to tell whether the microscopic worms Brian Knep experiments with and portrays in his show at Judi Rotenberg Gallery are his material or his collaborators. And ultimately, that’s problematic.
The curtain finally closed on the season for the No. 10 Harvard men’s soccer team, which fell to the Maryland Terrapins on Sunday (Nov. 29) in the third round of the NCAA tournament.
Although it may sound counterintuitive, loneliness can spread from one person to another, according to research being released Tuesday that underscores the power of one person’s emotions to affect friends, family and neighbors.
Harvard senior Samuel Bjork has won a prestigious Marshall Scholarship, allowing him to study for two years in the United Kingdom at the university of his choice.
Senior goaltender Christina Kessler has been named the ECAC Hockey Goaltender of the Week, while freshman defender Josephine Pucci was tabbed ECAC Hockey Rookie of the Week, the league office announced Monday afternoon.
For his four-goal performance in the Crimson men’s hockey team’s 6-5 overtime loss to Boston University, Harvard forward Conor Morrison ’13 was named Rookie of the Week by the ECAC on Nov. 30.
The Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard University has received a grant from the Donald W. Reynolds Foundation to establish a new fellowship for business reporters.
To create immune cells to fight off a specific infection, the body has to rapidly draw nutrients from the bloodstream, says Anuraj Shankar, a researcher at the Harvard School of Public Health…
A health care entrepreneur and the first Iraq War veteran to serve in Congress are the latest recipients of the John F. Kennedy New Frontier Award. Pennsylvania Rep. Patrick Murphy and Rebecca Onie, co-founder and chief executive of Project HEALTH, were honored during a ceremony at the John F. Kennedy Jr. Forum.
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