Campus & Community

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.

It is grit and determination that fuel former Navy SEAL and Extension School student Sergio Lopez’s recovery after three heart attacks in succession.

Debut author and Harvard affiliate Elizabeth Ames authored a college novel inspired by Harvard students.

Since 2017, the College Events Board has grown from 10 sponsored events a year to more than 30, bringing a community spirit to student life on campus.

The shuttering of Out of Town News in Harvard Square marks the end of an era.

The organizers of Harvard’s recent Pilot Pulse Survey discuss respondents’ answers across campus on issues of inclusion and belonging.

As All Hallows’ Eve approaches, the Gazette checks in with members of the Harvard community to hear which films they love to fear.

A window Into Harvard’s campus through the lens of a camera.

Harvard closed the 2019 fiscal year last June 30 with a surplus. Harvard officials discuss the details of how the University got there.

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.”

Rowing blades feature designs, most often inspired by shields and mascots, distinctive to each School and House at Harvard.

Bob Scalise, the John D. Nichols ’53 Family Director of Athletics, says he will retire at the end of the academic year.

A network of available resources on campus includes groups to help with academic, social, and emotional challenges.

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.

At a Meeting of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences on October 1, 2019, the Minute honoring the life and service of the late Mary Margaret Steedly, Professor of Anthropology, was placed upon the records. Professor Steedly was one of the great ethnographers of Indonesia.

At a Meeting of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences on Oct. 1, 2019, the Minute honoring the life and service of the late Nicolau Sevcenko, professor of romance languages and literatures, was placed upon the records. Professor Sevcenko was one of Brazil’s foremost urban and cultural historians.

Sixteen Harvard scientists are among the 93 researchers who have been selected to receive grants through the National Institutes of Health’s High-Risk, High-Reward program, which funds innovative research designed to address major challenges in biomedical science.

An interview with Joe Blatt, senior lecturer at the Graduate School of Education, on the long and lasting partnership between Harvard and Sesame Street, the acclaimed children’s television program, on the eve of its 50th anniversary.

Depending on whom you ask, the most photographed Harvard institution is either the John Harvard Statue, Massachusetts Hall, or Harvard University Police Department Officer Charles Marren. “I might be more…

Huntington D. Lambert, dean of Harvard’s Division of Continuing Education, to retire at the end of this year.

Jerry X. Mitrovica, the Frank Baird Jr. Professor of Science in the Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences at Harvard, was awarded a “genius grant” by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation.

Continuity, heritage, and ritual are central to the enduring magnetism and mystique of Harvard football.