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  • Three faculty named Harvard College Professors

    Khaled El-Rouayheb, Ju Yon Kim, and James Mickens have been named Harvard College Professors. The professorships provide support for professional development.

    Ju Yon Kim (from left), Khaled El-Rouayheb, and James Mickens.
  • Continuing Ed forges ahead

    The Division of Continuing Education celebrated the 10th anniversary of its Professional Development Programs with the grand opening of its expanded space at One Brattle Square.

    Professional Development Program (PDP) space and studios
  • Steven Edgar Ozment, 80

    At a meeting of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences on May 3, 2022, the following tribute to the life and service of the late Steven Edgar Ozment was spread upon the permanent records of the Faculty.

  • Albert Morton Craig, 93

    At a meeting of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences on May 3, 2022, the following tribute to the life and service of the late Albert Morton Craig was spread upon the permanent records of the Faculty.

  • Emmanuel Farhi, 41

    At a meeting of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences on May 3, 2022, the following tribute to the life and service of the late Emmanuel Farhi was spread upon the permanent records of the Faculty.

  • ‘Arts First has come back to life’

    For the first time since 2020, Arts First returned to live performances on Harvard’s campus.

    The Harvard University Band performs in the Science Center Plaza.
  • Rubén Blades (finally!) receives Harvard Arts Medal

    Acclaimed salsa singer and composer Rubén Blades, LL.M. ’85, also known as the “Poet of Salsa,” was awarded the 2022 Harvard Arts Medal in a ceremony at Sanders Theatre.

    Ruben Blades with Harvard Jazz BAND.
  • Packing four years into three

    Swimming star Felicia Pasadyn graduates early with highest student-athlete GPA at NCAA Championships.

    Felicia Pasadyn '22
  • One lie leads to another until we tell the truth

    Harvard Radcliffe Institute held a daylong conference, “Telling the Truth About All This: Reckoning with Slavery and Its Legacies at Harvard and Beyond,” on Friday.

    Ibram X. Kendi RI ’21.
  • 16 elected to American Academy of Arts & Sciences

    Sixteen Harvard faculty are among the 261 American Academy of Arts & Sciences newly elected members, the academy announced Thursday.

    Harvard YARD.
  • Working to help homeless in less-welcoming land

    Harvard Kennedy School grad Alena Vachnová has been using her passion and skills for ending homelessness to help the Ukrainian refugees who have sought safety in her home city of Kosice, Slovakia.

    Alena Vachnova
  • Mayor Michelle Wu named Class Day speaker

    Historic Boston leader selected for being “defender of equity, inclusion, opportunity.”

    Michelle Wu
  • Drum roll: Arts First returns live

    Annual festival of campus creativity to feature theater, dance, music, spoken word, interactive art over four days.

    Student orchestra in Calderwood Courtyard, Harvard Art Museums.
  • Dual message of slavery probe: Harvard’s ties inseparable from rise, and now University must act

    University leadership accepts recommendations of report with $100 million pledge.

    Engraving of Harvard in 1726. "A Prospect of the Colledges in Cambridge in New England," William Burgis, 1726.
  • Risk rewarded

    Harvard researchers will share nearly $1 million in funding to pursue high-risk, high-reward projects from using zircons to explore the earliest life on Earth to creating next-generation painkillers.

    Harvard University
  • Revealing webs of inequities rooted in slavery, woven over centuries

    Harvard vows long-term commitment to improve lives, futures of descendant communities through research, education, service.

    Tomiko Brown-Nagin.
  • Lewis, Ong named Carnegie Fellows

    Sarah Elizabeth Lewis and Jonathan Corpus Ong were named Andrew Carnegie Fellows today.

    Jonathan Corpus Ong and Sarah Elizabeth Lewis.
  • Victory of perseverance, vision over more than decade of challenges

    Being able to rebound when life throws up obstacles is nothing new for undergraduate Kimberly Woo, whose road to graduation has been filled with challenges.

    Kimberly Woo
  • Harvard to transition to voluntary COVID testing

    Coronavirus Advisory Group cites low campus rates of severe illness, hospitalizations, and a shift in pandemic phase.

    Dropping a COVID test off at a dropbox in Smith Center.
  • More than just another brick in a wall

    The student creators of a new public art installation in Harvard Yard believe their work can drive change.

    DaLoria Boone etches message into brick.
  • How consequential life grew from dying heart

    For soon-to-be Harvard graduate, his medical career is personal, and a way to give back to a system that saved his life.

    Jon Hochstein.
  • Four to be honored with Harvard Medal

    The Harvard Alumni Association has announced that Avarita L. Hanson ’75, William F. Lee ’72, Dwight D. Miller, Ed.M. ’71, and Tom Reardon ’68 will receive the 2022 Harvard Medal.

    Quincy Street gate.
  • Bringing two worlds together

    Harvard Graduate School of Education grad Nolan Altvater ’22 plans to work on changing education policy regarding Wabanaki culture in Maine public schools.

    Nolan Altvater.
  • Library Collections in three dimensions

    Librarians tell stories behind three objects: rare 16th-century globe set, Edison lightbulb, and DIY 1960s protest clothing.

    Mercator celestial globe.
  • Demystifying Harvard’s admission process

    William Lee, University’s lead counsel, discusses the Supreme Court case with Sherri Ann Charleston, chief diversity and inclusion officer.

    Sherri Charleston and Bill Lee.
  • Let us not suffer Psets alone

    Part study hall, part help desk, part social space, it proves math needn’t be all about solitary scholars racking their brains on Pythagorean theorems.

    Joanna Walters, Raquel Reis, Jocelyn Wang, and Ivy Tirok.
  • Mastering move with high level of difficulty, prize-winning execution

    Marissa Sumathipala was an Olympic hopeful, started a company at 17, and is now graduating Harvard.

    Marissa Sumathipala.
  • Making field to table work regionally

    Nina Sayles’ love of gardening is blooming into a drive to provide more nutritious foods for us all.

    Nina Sayles
  • Reframing American Studies

    Scholar Philip Deloria encourages his students to push boundaries of American Studies.

    Charles Hua in class.
  • Theodore C. Bestor, 69

    At a Meeting of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences on April 5, 2022, the Minute honoring the life and service of the late Theodore C. Bestor, Reischauer Institute Professor of Social Anthropology, was placed upon the records. Professor Bestor was a major force in the emergence of the social anthropology subdiscipline of East Asian ethnography.