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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7 projects win Global Institute grants
Seven projects that feature interdisciplinary, cross-collaborative research and span five Harvard Schools will receive grants from the Harvard Global Institute.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Staying grounded
A profile highlights Eva Ballew, a first-year, a first-generation student, and a Native American from rural northern Wisconsin.
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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.
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$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.
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Champion of equity and social justice
For almost three decades, Joan Reede has made diversity and inclusion part of Harvard Medical School’s mission.
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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.
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Harvard’s sacred spaces
New and old sacred spaces at Harvard encourage pause and reflection, for religious and mindful communities alike.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Welcoming No. 29
Larry Bacow will be officially installed as Harvard’s 29th president on Friday.
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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…
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Larry Bacow’s listening tour
New Harvard President Larry Bacow has been on a listening tour in advance of his inauguration Oct. 5.
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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.
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Joseph John Harrington, 69
Professor Harrington helped improve the quality of life in communities with problems with clean drinking water and sanitation.
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Don Craig Wiley, 57
Professor Wiley was one of the most influential molecular-structural biologists of the late 20th century.
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Art of chess
Players bond and battle during Community Chess Weekend at Harvard’s Smith Campus Center.
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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.
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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.
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A celebration of diversity
Harvard Yard performances highlight, embrace the complexity of diversity.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Harvard Schools vote to take on challenge
Harvard Votes Challenge provides push to register eligible students, with TurboVote making it even easier.
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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.