Campus & Community

At a Meeting of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences on Feb. 5, 2019, the following tribute to the life and service of the late Barbara Kiefer Lewalski was placed upon the permanent records of the Faculty.

At a Meeting of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences on February 5, 2019, the following tribute to the life and service of the late Francisco Márquez Villanueva was placed upon the permanent records of the Faculty.

Transgender activist Janet Mock, the writer, producer, advocate and director behind ‘Redefining Realness’ and ‘POSE,’ has been named the 2019 Harvard University Artist of the Year. She will be honored at the Cultural Rhythms festival in March.

Harvard College saw a 1.4 percent increase in its application pool, with 43,330 students applying to the Class of 2023. The Class of 2022 had received 42,749 applicants.

This year marked the first in the group’s 171-year history that women took the stage as part of the Hasty Pudding cast. Six men and six women make up this year’s onstage talent in the original student musical “France France Revolution!”

Harvard College has announced creation of Working Group on Symbols and Spaces of Engagement at Harvard College, fulfilling one of the recommendations of the Presidential Task Force on Inclusion and Belonging. Professor Ali Asani will lead the group, which will examine how well the University is fulfilling its mission to make every student feel like a full member of the Harvard community.

Harvard College senior Connor Doyle manages the coolest and least-known high-tech playground on campus: the Augmented Reality/Virtual Reality studio at the Harvard Innovation Lab in Allston.

Harvard Graduate Commons Program celebrates its 10th anniversary with a special speaker series, including former Massachusetts Port Authority CEO Thomas Glynn and political activist and social critic Cornel West.

Harvard’s WinterFest gives students and others a time and place to chill out and warm up.

The Gazette talked to founders of three matchmaking companies that cater to a driven, cultured, well-traveled clientele: Ivy League graduates who have achieved success in their careers and are looking for life partners.

Martha Whitehead, Queen’s University’s vice provost and librarian, has been named to lead Harvard Library beginning in June.

The Harvard Government Department’s Committee on Climate Change, formed last March in the wake of sexual misconduct allegations, has released its climate survey report.

Timothy R. Barakett ’87, M.B.A. ’93, and Mariano-Florentino (Tino) Cuéllar ’93 have been elected to become members of the Harvard Corporation. Both will assume their roles on July 1.

Veteran actor Milo Ventimiglia gets a campus tour and a pudding pot as Hasty Pudding’s Man of the Year.

Harvard staff photographer Rose Lincoln finds moments of motion and stillness, giving you a reason to pause.

Dolores Huerta, the civil rights icon who fought to build a nationwide coalition protecting farm workers, will receive the Radcliffe Medal on May 31. A webcast will be available during the event.

Actress and director Bryce Dallas Howard is the 2019 winner of the theatrical company’s annual award.

Harvard President Larry Bacow talks about his leadership journey and the lessons along the way.

Harvard Wintersession students picked up new skills during the break with classes that ranged from joke-writing to synthetic biology.

Milo Ventimiglia has been named Hasty Pudding’s 2019 Man of the Year.

Robert W. Iuliano, Harvard’s senior vice president, general counsel, and deputy to the president, has been selected as Gettysburg College’s 15th president.

On Feb. 2, the Phillips Brooks House Center for Public Service and Engaged Scholarship will host the eighth annual Public Interested Conference, a daylong program that brings students and alumni together.

U.S. poet laureate Tracy K. Smith ’94 will be awarded the 2019 Harvard Arts Medal by Harvard President Larry Bacow in a May 2 ceremony.

The Hasty Pudding Theatricals, the oldest theatrical organization in the United States, has named Bryce Dallas Howard as its Woman of the Year.

Roy Glauber, the pioneering theoretical physicist who received the 2005 Nobel Prize in physics, died on Dec. 26. He was 93.

Harvard University Housing (HUH) manages approximately 3,000 apartments, offering a broad choice of locations, unit types, amenities, and sizes to meet the individual budgets and housing needs of eligible Harvard…

Henry (Hank) B. Reiling, Harvard Business School’s Eli Goldston Professor of Business Administration, Emeritus, was an authority in law, taxation, and finance. Reiling died on Jan. 21. Services to be held Jan. 26.

Dual-degree students from Harvard and Berklee find ways to harmonize.

Harvard’s men’s basketball team takes advantage of a day off in Atlanta, meets former president Jimmy Carter, and tours Civil Rights sites.

Theda Skocpol, the Victor S. Thomas Professor of Government and Sociology at Harvard, is passionate about comparative and American politics and social policy. For close to two decades, her second passion has been football.