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  • Worldwide Week at Harvard brings it home

    Worldwide Week at Harvard Oct. 20‒27 will shine a bright light on the University’s international work.

    Lab in Durban, South Africa
  • Imaging leap rewarded with $3M

    Harvard Professor Xiaowei Zhuang has been named the recipient of the 2019 Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences in recognition of her pioneering work in the development of super-resolution microscopy techniques.

    Xiaowei Zhuang
  • National Academy of Medicine honors 12 faculty

    Twelve Harvard faculty are among the 85 new members elected to the National Academy of Medicine, which is considered one of the highest honors in the fields of health and medicine.

  • Staying grounded

    A profile highlights Eva Ballew, a first-year, a first-generation student, and a Native American from rural northern Wisconsin.

    Eva Ballew.
  • When her life is over, she’ll have lived

    Harvard senior Elsie Tellier has responded to her lethal disease with courage, sadness, and compassion. But not bitterness.

    Elsie Tellier.
  • $100M gift will support sciences and math

    A Harvard alumnus and his wife made a gift of $100 million to support the University’s Science Center, enhance mathematics scholarship, and provide unrestricted resources for the Faculty of Arts and Sciences.

    The Science Center at Harvard
  • Champion of equity and social justice

    For almost three decades, Joan Reede has made diversity and inclusion part of Harvard Medical School’s mission.

    Joan Reede
  • New faculty: Lauren Williams

    The Gazette sits down with Lauren Williams, the second woman to be tenured in Harvard’s Math Department and the Seaver Professor at the Radcliffe Institute.

    Lauren Williams.
  • Harvard’s sacred spaces

    New and old sacred spaces at Harvard encourage pause and reflection, for religious and mindful communities alike.

    Yaseen Eldik and Sanaa Nadim pray.
  • After the inauguration, the celebration

    The installation of Larry Bacow was followed by a giant block party in the Old Yard, with the entire Harvard community invited.

  • Bacow: ‘I am delighted to begin’

    Larry Bacow was inaugurated as Harvard’s 29th president on Friday, the culmination of a two-day celebration that drew together faraway friends, colleagues from other universities, and members of the Harvard community for a range of events that ended with a block party.

  • HUBweek returns with fresh ideas

    Harvard University, The Boston Globe, Massachusetts General Hospital, and Massachusetts Institute of Technology are partnering again to present HUBweek, an idea festival. HUBweek brings together individuals and groups pushing the bounds of innovation in their industries.

  • Welcoming No. 29

    Larry Bacow will be officially installed as Harvard’s 29th president on Friday.

  • A pioneering mind for the power of design

    As a sophomore at Wellesley College, Adele Fleet Bacow was attracted to architecture and art. Soon, after enrolling in a course on urban sociology, she found a passion that combined…

  • Larry Bacow’s listening tour

    New Harvard President Larry Bacow has been on a listening tour in advance of his inauguration Oct. 5.

  • 400 students make Harvard history

    Harvard Extension School’s inaugural convocation filled a need to honor all students, particularly the online and distance learners, for their academic milestone after being admitted to a degree program.

    Huntington D. Lambert, dean of the Division of Continuing Education and University Extension
  • Joseph John Harrington, 69

    Professor Harrington helped improve the quality of life in communities with problems with clean drinking water and sanitation.

  • Don Craig Wiley, 57

    Professor Wiley was one of the most influential molecular-structural biologists of the late 20th century.

  • Art of chess

    Players bond and battle during Community Chess Weekend at Harvard’s Smith Campus Center.

  • Expanded Counseling and Mental Health Services

    Paul Barreira and Barbara Lewis discuss the expansion of Counseling and Mental Health Services in the Smith Center, and how it broadens their mission.

    Paul Barreira and Barbara Lewis
  • An update on Harvard’s diversity, inclusion efforts

    In a Q&A session, presidential adviser and strategist John Silvanus Wilson discusses progress implementing the recommendations of the Presidential Task Force on Inclusion and Belonging.

  • A celebration of diversity

    Harvard Yard performances highlight, embrace the complexity of diversity.

    People talking, thinking concept.
  • Harvard adds to Title IX initiatives

    Harvard University continues to expand on its commitment to prevent and respond to instances of sexual and gender-based harassment, including sexual assault, introducing several new initiatives this fall to serve students, faculty, and staff.

    Nicole Merhill.
  • Undergrads fill the gap

    Six Harvard College students taught English as a second language to new residents of Boston as part of the inaugural Phillips Brooks House Association Adult ESOL program.

    Adults being taught English.
  • A Nobel incubator

    Professor Richard Losick shares the story of a single floor in a single building on Divinity Avenue that served as a scientific home to three Nobel laureates and a training ground for six future laureates. A 10th researcher followed the same path, though he was on the floor above.

    Richard Losick
  • University community discovers special bond in unique setting

    Marking its 10th anniversary, Harvard Housing’s Graduate Commons Program offers housing that brings together graduate students, faculty, staff, and their families through integrative events and programming that fosters community.

    family playing pool at grad commons
  • The center in the crossroads

    Harvard’s redesigned Richard A. and Susan F. Smith Campus Center officially opened Sept. 20 with a dedication ceremony attended by Harvard President Larry Bacow, President Emerita Drew Faust, and members of the Harvard and Cambridge communities.

    Crowd gathers to watch movie at Smith Campus Center.
  • Harvard Schools vote to take on challenge

    Harvard Votes Challenge provides push to register eligible students, with TurboVote making it even easier.

    Harvard Votes Challenge event
  • New VP for alumni affairs and development

    Brian K. Lee has been appointed Harvard’s vice president for alumni affairs and development, President Larry Bacow announced.

    Brian K. Lee.
  • Harvard files motion backing student testimony at trial

    Harvard files court motion supporting student testimony at admissions trial. Students and alumni hope to offer their perspectives on the importance of diversity.

    Autumn colors are on display at Eliot House