Campus & Community
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Don’t mince words, Radcliffe told scholars. It worked.
Participants in intellectual diversity initiative navigated deep disagreements on path to consensus
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Henry Chu named curator of Nieman Foundation for Journalism
Prize-winning veteran foreign correspondent, editor aims to focus on challenges facing industry, including AI, press freedom, polarization
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University opposes changes to federal-grant guidelines
Letter argues that overhaul would politicize funding process, hamper health and science advances, damage nation’s security, competitiveness
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More than an endowment pioneer, ‘a good man’
Friends, colleagues recall Walter M. Cabot, longtime leader of Harvard Management Co., as modest, thoughtful, ‘with a rare combination of judgment and grace’
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The bear? Nonchalant. Me? More ‘chalant.’
Wooly visitor shakes up already challenging 460-mile summertime solo canoe trip through Yukon wilderness
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Remembering Jack Reardon, ‘the best of the University personified’
‘Amazingly well-lived life’ marked by a gift for instilling in others a sense of their own potential
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The first moon walk
New mini-exhibits at the Harvard Museums of Science & Culture feature lunar rocks from the Apollo 12 moon mission.
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Intensely personal, yet universal
A total of 160 classes comprise the College’s new program in General Education, which launches this fall.
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Singing in the rain
Students from a first-year think tank led a successful effort to plant a pair of rain gardens on campus.
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Bloomberg Harvard City Leadership Initiative announces third class of mayors
The Bloomberg Harvard City Leadership Initiative announced the third class of 41 mayors from around the world who will participate in a yearlong education and professional development program.
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One thing to change: Everyone should vote
Archon Fung, the Winthrop Laflin McCormack Professor of Citizenship and Self-Government, thinks about the major changes that would take place if every person in America voted.
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One thing to change: Less driving, more thriving
Lisa Randall, the Frank B. Baird Jr. Professor of Science, remembers when one shut-down street brought Harvard’s campus together, and wonders how that could apply to cities.
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The simple joy of pets
Phillips Brooks House program brings dogs to a local rehab center to interact with residents.
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John H. Shaw steps down
John H. Shaw, the Harry C. Dudley Professor of Structural and Economic Geology, steps down at the end of June, having served as chair of the Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences since 2006.
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Executive education with a soul
For the second year in a row, Harvard Divinity School offers an executive course that draws on history and religious traditions around the world to help participants become agents of change.
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One thing to change: Think more like children
Abraham “Avi” Loeb, the Frank B. Baird Jr. Professor of Science, argues that academia shouldn’t just be about proving theories, but about exploration.
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In search of Quentin Compson
A group of William Faulkner fans visited a plaque on the Anderson Bridge honoring his best-known character.
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Chicken soup for the soul
Harvard Divinity School graduate Israel Buffardi experienced an unconventional journey to his Unitarian Universalist ministry.
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Welcoming the summer solstice
People of all ages gathered at Harvard to celebrate the longest day of the year with performances, arts and crafts, and more.
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The lessons he learned from the class he taught
Dennis Norman, faculty chair of the Harvard University Native American Program, is retiring at the end of June. In a Gazette profile, he highlights the course he has taught at the Kennedy School that sends students to work in Native American communities.
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One thing to change: Anecdotes aren’t data
Steven Pinker, the Johnstone Family Professor of Psychology, points to a number of instances where the use of anecdotes over data creates a false narrative.
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Cooking up a TV career
Nick DiGiovanni competes on “MasterChef” — while earning his undergraduate degree in food and climate at Harvard at the same time.
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From lecture to comedy sketch
Students see professors stand up in front of a class every day, but they don’t often see them do stand-up onstage. The Harvard College Stand Up Comic Society has changed that with the Harvard faculty comedy showcase.
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Investing in Allston
Harvard President Larry Bacow helped honor 16 local nonprofits at the 11th annual Harvard Allston Partnership Fund ceremony at the Ed Portal in Allston.
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FAS announces ethnicity, indigeneity, and migration positions
The Faculty of Arts and Sciences will hire a cluster of faculty in the area of ethnicity, indigeneity, and migration during the upcoming academic year, Dean Claudine Gay announced.
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New research campus seeks a developer
The Harvard Allston Land Co. is requesting proposals for the initial phase of an Enterprise Research Campus on 14 acres on Western Avenue in Allston.
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Three cheers for Harvard Heroes
Supporters packed Sanders Theatre in Memorial Hall to cheer for the 61 Harvard Heroes.
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Seeing the light of independence
Talking to graduates from the first class of the College Success program, a collaboration between the Harvard Extension School and the Perkins School for the Blind.
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Changes coming to Gen Ed
This fall, Harvard College will launch a new General Education program for undergraduates, which now offers a total of 160 courses.
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Afsahi named chief development officer for FAS
Harvard’s Faculty of Arts and Sciences has announced a new dean of development: Armin Afsahi, who has led successful campaigns at the University of Denver, the University of California, San Diego, and Georgetown University.
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Colonial North America at Harvard Library
A digitized collection from 14 repositories around Harvard University contains almost 650,000 images of handmade materials from the 17th and 18th centuries. Here’s a peek.
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Wyss donates third major gift
The Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering at Harvard University announced today the latest gift of $131 million from its founder, entrepreneur and philanthropist Hansjörg Wyss, M.B.A. ’65.
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Partnering means more at the library
Harvard Library’s key alliances create a vast universe of information for Harvard faculty and students.
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Food and justice with a side of nostalgia
Food and justice were on the menu at Radcliffe’s Marketplace of Ideas, as were intimate memories of family, friendship, love, and loss.
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College announces new Academic Resource Center
Today, Harvard announced the creation of the new Academic Resource Center (ARC), which will launch in August and will provide a wide range of academic support services for students at Harvard College and the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences.
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Dolores Huerta receives Radcliffe Medal
Dolores Huerta, labor organizer and civil rights activist who has devoted her life to lifting up others, was awarded Radcliffe’s highest honor Friday.