Economist Raj Chetty and sociologist Michèle Lamont of Harvard are among the Andrew Carnegie Fellows named this year by the Carnegie Corporation of New York. Also known as the “Brainy Award,” the fellowship grants up to $200,000 to each of 32 researchers writing and publishing in the humanities and social sciences.
Eight students from Highline High School in Burien, Wash., recently spent five days in Boston and Cambridge visiting Harvard and MIT as part of the Harvard Club of Seattle Crimson Achievement Program.
The Harvard Alumni Association has announced that Teresita Alvarez-Bjelland ’76, M.B.A. ’79, Dan H. Fenn Jr. ’44, A.M. ’72, and Tamara Elliott Rogers ’74 will receive the 2019 Harvard Medal.
Success stories from Harvard’s Bridge Program, which pairs student tutors with immigrant employees to ease the transition to a new culture, are celebrated.
New English and African and African American Studies Professor Jesse McCarthy took a roundabout path to academia. Now he’s teaching James Baldwin and Henry James and showing students there are many ways to be successful.
Sarah Whiting, former dean of architecture at Rice University, returns to Harvard, where she taught early in her career, as dean of the Graduate School of Design.
Twenty would-be companies in four categories have been named finalists in the President’s Innovation Challenge, an annual “call to action, innovation, and entrepreneurship” at Harvard.
Harvard students Noah Golowich and Alex Atanasov have been selected to receive the prestigious Hertz Fellowship, joining 199 previous Harvard students who have received the honor since 1964.
Harvard’s new Sustainable Healthful Food Standards, announced today, will challenge University food service to increase healthy options while also considering how the food is produced, taking into account sustainability, pesticide and fertilizer use, food-workers’ conditions, and animal welfare.
The 13th annual Celebration of Scholarship dinner brought together brought together students who have benefited from financial aid and some of the many donors who support the program.
The occupation of University Hall in April 1969 and the strike that followed it left its mark on Harvard’s psyche. A daylong event Friday commemorates the 50th anniversary and brings today’s student activists into the conversation.
On a recent afternoon, the Gazette sat down with Susan Carney, current president of the Board of Overseers, and Michael Brown, president-elect for 2019-20, to talk about the Overseers’ role, their…
With mental health issues among young people increasing both at the University and nationwide, Harvard’s Office of the Provost has convened a task force to assess and respond to students’ psychological well-being.
At a Meeting of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences on April 2, 2019, a tribute to the life and service of the late Per Nykrog was placed upon the permanent records of the Faculty.
Harvard Divinity School Professor Anne Monius’ determination to get to Harvard started on a grammar school field trip. Today she inspires students to love learning as much as she does.
Professor Jelani Nelson develops new algorithms to make computer systems work more efficiently, but also takes his educational efforts beyond Harvard’s walls. He founded AddisCoder, a program that teaches students in Ethiopia how to code.
In conversation with Bridget Terry Long, dean of the Graduate School of Education, President Larry Bacow discusses the role of universities in building economic opportunity.
Actress Laverne Cox, fashion designer Christian Siriano, and fashion blogger Nicolette Mason, talk with culture expert Jess Weiner at Harvard’s first gender equity summit.
Two Harvard Medical School researchers, Vikram Patel and Timothy Springer, have received the prestigious Canada Gairdner Award for transformational work in the fields of biomedicine and global health.
Two Harvard graduate students host an event exploring the experiences of people who have returned to their countries of birth after having lived in the U.S. for many years.