Campus & Community
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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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Walter Jacob Kaiser, 84
Memorial Minute — Faculty of Arts and Sciences
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Gloria Ferrari Pinney, 82
Memorial Minute — Faculty of Arts and Sciences
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Charles Dacre Parsons, 91
Memorial Minute — Faculty of Arts and Sciences
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New Learning Experience Platform opens doors to innovation in teaching
Flexible, modular platform supports unique pedagogical approaches
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When Jodie Foster found out acting wasn’t a dumb job
Celebrated performer, filmmaker — and now Radcliffe Medalist — discusses sometimes thorny complexities of six-decade career
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Managing construction’s return to a ‘new normal’
Campus Services and construction officials at Harvard spoke to the Gazette about safely and responsibly resuming construction projects after Boston’s stay-home advisory is lifted.
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A virtual celebration of innovation at Harvard
The Bertarelli Foundation prizes awarded $510,000 to winners of the 2020 Harvard President’s Innovation Challenge, in which Harvard students and alumni showcase their solutions to some of the world’s most pressing problems across industries.
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Clearing the air
Alicia Nelson, M.P.H. ’20, is boosting Alaskans’ health by promoting dialogue between public health officials and the community. Now with COVID-19, Nelson said that her Harvard Chan School training in risk communication is proving invaluable
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A new mission in Haiti
When Christophe Millien finishes his graduate studies at Harvard Medical School this month, he will return to Haiti to address the medical problem caused by uterine fibroids suffered by Haitian women.
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Hitting full stride in emergency medicine
Kirstin Woody Scott, Ph.D. ’15, M.D. ’20, was looking forward to running her 10th consecutive Boston Marathon before the pandemic put it on hold. Like any obstacle Scott has faced, she found a positive solution.
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An enduring bond
Four sets of roommates from the Class of 2020 gave the Gazette a glimpse of life inside the dorms back in 2017. Where are they now?
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‘When you see death all the time, you go into this mode of increased energy and sharper focus’
Pioneering AIDS researcher Myron “Max” Essex was one of the first to propose that a retrovirus was the cause of AIDS.
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Thesis focus surfaces in West Virginia
D.C. attorney Bradley Ashton Thomas came to Harvard Extension School, discovering a small town in West Virginia along the way.
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Exploring from home
Harvard Ed Portal’s virtual field trips help students see the world.
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‘My need to serve — that itch that I had — wasn’t being scratched’
Salvador Peña has spent the past three years at Harvard Divinity School earning his master of divinity degree and satisfying that itch to serve others.
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Dear Harvard
Students launch virtual postcard project to keep the Harvard community connected.
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In tune with a program of dual study
Avanti Nagral decided to try the new dual-degree program and earned a bachelor of arts degree from Harvard while getting her master’s from Berklee College of Music — all in five years.
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Rising above a biased system he’s now determined to change
Growing up in Mattapan, Kwame Adams refused to be defined by low expectations. Now the Ed School grad aims to help Boston students of color avoid the same biases he faced.
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A drive that’s taken her around the world
Lessons learned from Rewan Abdelwahab’s four trips to five countries during her time at Harvard.
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Feeling renewed connection to family and neighbors
Gabrielle Donaldson ’23 describes how things are going now that she’s back home in Raleigh, N.C., during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Getting handwritten letters make friends feel less far away
Integrative biology concentrator Allison Law ’20 describes how things are going now that she’s back home in Natick, Mass., during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Wishing there’d been just a little more time to savor senior year on campus
Neuroscience concentrator Hayoung Ahn describes how things are going in Queens, N.Y., now that she’s back home during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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HAA honors three with Harvard Medal
The Harvard Alumni Association has announced that David L. Evans, Leila T. Fawaz A.M. ’72, Ph.D. ’79, and Joseph J. O’Donnell ’67, M.B.A. ’71, will receive the 2020 Harvard Medal.
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Coming full circuit
From a high school electricity class in Kenya, Billy Koech knew he was destined to become an electrical engineer. This May, he will graduate from Harvard’s John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences doing just that.
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Doing the right thing
Jose Cerda III ’88, Koma Gandy Fischbein ’95, and Theresa Reno-Weber, M.P.P. ’08, offer the Class of 2020 advice about the value of public service.
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A warning on homeschooling
Q&A with HLS professor and child welfare expert Elizabeth Bartholet, who calls for a radical transformation in homeschooling.
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Reason to smile
After he graduates from Harvard School of Dental Medicine, Jeffrey Taylor will pursue a residency in oral and maxillofacial surgery where he’ll one day reconstruct damaged jaws, fix life-altering facial deformities.
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Reopening research operations
The Gazette spoke to Laboratory Reopening Planning Committee head Rick McCullough to learn more about Harvard’s decision to shut down its labs, the effects that had on research, and how the University plans to ensure a safe reopening.
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Scenes from the socially distant
In this latest dispatch, Harvard staff, faculty, and students share their life from afar.
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Nine faculty elected to National Academy of Sciences
Nine Harvard University scientists have been elected by their peers to the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) in recognition of “their distinguished and continuing achievements in original research.”
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Positive disruption
Saamon Legoski, a student in Harvard Chan School’s M.P.H.-45 program is on a mission for environmental justice.
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Responding to this pandemic, preparing for the next
Pardis Sabeti’s lab is a research hub on infectious diseases, including COVID-19.
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Once on this island
Marvin Merritt IV ’20 was born and raised on the small island of Deer Isle, Maine, the centerpiece for his senior thesis and a single destination in this artist’s journey.
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$16.5 million awarded to projects to fight COVID
MassCPR, a coalition of regional scientific institutions united to fight COVID-19, is awarding $16 million to 62 research projects with the promise to impact patient care within a year.
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Birth of a sleuth
As a first-year, Jordan Villegas ’20 took his passion for archival research to the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study and spent his next four years becoming a Radcliffe triple threat.