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 inaugural group of Harvard’s Diversity, Inclusion, and Belonging fellows come from disciplines as diverse as the study of religion to Romance languages, English, and music.
The Harvard Task Force on the Future of Teaching and Learning was created to explore how the University can build on learnings from remote teaching during the pandemic.
Nearly 85 percent of those admitted to the Class of 2025 say they will come to Harvard in the fall. Financial aid was a significant consideration in many of their decisions, according to William R. Fitzsimmons, dean of admissions.
Indian economist and philosopher, Amartya Sen, the 1998 Nobel laureate in economics, talks about his life as the son of distinguished Hindu academics and how the inequities all around him in colonial India of the 1930s would shape his intellectual destiny.
The trailblazing work of Melinda French Gates, a philanthropist, advocate for the rights of women and girls, and fighter for gender equity, was the focus of Radcliffe Day.
After graduating Harvard, Juliet Nwagwu Ume-Ezeoke ’21 is off to study civil engineering at Stanford University, but first, she will squeeze in yet another experience in Africa.
The Gazette spoke with Giang Nguyen, Harvard University Health Services’ executive director, and Bill VanSchalkwyk, the University’s managing director of Environmental Health and Safety, to learn more about what Gov. Baker’s announcement means for the Harvard community.
Ruth Simmons, one of the nation’s top higher education leaders and president of Prairie View A&M University, called on Harvard and its graduating Class of 2021 to fight to close the chasm of inequality that recent years have illustrated still exists in America.
Seven honorary degrees will be awarded to Frances Hamilton Arnold, Martin Baron, Arlie Russell Hochschild, Salman Amin Khan, Margaret Hilary Marshall, Anna Deveare Smith, and Sebastião Salgado.
NBA star and activist Jeremy Lin ’10 spoke to graduating seniors about how he’s come to see his identity as a barrier-breaking Asian American in a new light.
In a virtual ceremony on May 26, the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences (GSAS) awarded the Centennial Medal to four distinguished alumni who have made fundamental and lasting contributions to knowledge, to their disciplines, to their colleagues, and to society.