A crowd of 250 students, faculty, and staff gathered on the steps of Harvard’s Memorial Church on Veterans Day for a Defend DACA rally that was part of a nationwide student walkout.
At a Meeting of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences on Nov. 5, 2019, the Minute honoring the life and service of the late Stanley Lieberson, Abbott Lawrence Lowell Professor of Sociology, Emeritus, was placed upon the records. Professor Lieberson made wide-ranging contributions to the study of race and ethnicity, cultural and linguistic change, and research methods.
At a Meeting of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences on Nov. 5, 2019, the Minute honoring the life and service of the late Richard Wilson, Mallinckrodt Professor of Physics, Emeritus, was placed upon the records. Professor Wilson, whose research focused on nuclear and elementary particle physics, educated governmental bodies and the public on a wide range of scientific issues.
Hailing from Montana, Joe Gone is an interdisciplinary social scientist with both theoretical and applied interests and member of the Aaniiih-Gros Ventre tribe. He has spent the last 25 years working with indigenous communities to rethink community-based mental health services, and to harness traditional culture and spirituality for advancing indigenous well-being.
Over the past summer, 15 Harvard students helped communities around the country as part of the Presidential Public Service Fellowship (PPSF). President Larry Bacow honored them at a luncheon this month.
In a discussion at Harvard’s Memorial Church, Atlanta-based preacher Raphael G. Warnock called mass incarceration “a scandal on the soul of America,” and dared his listeners to “imagine a different future.”
Harvard’s Michael Kremer, the Gates Professor of Developing Societies, wins 2019 Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel.
To mark its 100th anniversary, the Harvard University Band will take to the field during halftime at the Cornell game on Saturday, swelling to 400 performers as alumni join the student members.
The Office of Diversity, Inclusion, and Belonging is announcing the official launch of the Harvard Culture Lab Innovation Fund (HCLIF), which will provide members of the Harvard community with competitive grants to pursue projects that use technology to advance diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging.
Yvette J. Jackson, who joined Harvard as an assistant professor in the Department of Music this fall, is a composer of electroacoustic, chamber, and orchestral music, with a focus on radio operas and immersive narrative soundscape productions.
William G. Kaelin Jr., the Sidney Farber Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School and the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, is one of three winners of the 2019 Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine for discovering how cells sense and adapt to changes in oxygen availability, a process critical for survival.
The furry characters of “Sesame Street” came to Harvard’s Sanders Theater to partake in a special celebration that marked the lasting relationship between the College and the PBS children’s television series.
Engaging the World: Harvard College International Opportunities Fair highlights the work being done worldwide by Harvard’s Schools, departments, research centers, faculty, and students.