Campus & Community

At a Meeting of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, the Minute honoring the life and service of the late I. Bernard Cohen, Victor S. Thomas Professor of the History of Science Emeritus, was placed upon the records. Professor Cohen led the professionalization of the history of science and established the flagship department at Harvard.

Catherine Dulac, Jennifer Lewis, Louis Menand, and Mary C. Waters have been appointed to prestigious, five-year chairs at Harvard.

Famed activist Angela Davis was guest speaker at a Harvard Art Museums event co-sponsored by the DACA Seminar.

Vikram Sundar ’18 was awarded a Churchill Scholarship to study at the University of Cambridge in the fall.

Harvard College has admitted 1,962 to the Class of ’22, out of a record applicant pool of 42,749.

Harvard’s Presidential Task Force on Inclusion and Belonging issued its final report, a compilation of eight recommendations and a framework of “four goals and four tools” meant as a blueprint for advancing Harvard’s practices and culture of inclusion and belonging. President Drew Faust announced a series of initiatives to advance this work.

The Presidential Task Force on Inclusion and Belonging has issued its final report. The Gazette spoke with John Silvanus Wilson, former president of Morehouse College and new senior adviser and strategist to the president charged with implementing its recommendations.

Students who take “Native Americans in the 21st Century” leave the classroom to visit communities in Indian country to help them build healthier communities and reduce disparities in education, health, and economics.

Stories from Haley Catherine Curtin ’18 and other Harvard students illuminate the personal dimension of financial aid.

Two of the original members of the Harvard Extension Alumni Association look back on the School and the association to which they have given 50 years — and received much in return.

An interview with Orlando Patterson, the John Cowles Professor of Sociology, on the 50th anniversary of the Kerner Report, which concluded in 1968 that “the nation was moving toward two societies, one black, one white — separate and unequal.”

Danoff Dean of Harvard College Rakesh Khurana has announced the appointment of Professor Brian Farrell and Irina Ferreras as the faculty deans for Leverett House.

A profile of Tristan Ahtone, a 2017‒2018 Nieman Fellow and a member of the Kiowa tribe of Oklahoma. He’s the fourth Native American Nieman Fellow since the organization was founded in 1938.

Michael D. Smith, Edgerley Family Dean of Harvard’s Faculty of Arts and Sciences, will step down from his leadership of Harvard’s largest School to return full-time to teaching.

The inauguration of Harvard’s 29th president, Lawrence S. Bacow, will take place on Oct. 5.

The Boston Planning and Development Agency board has approved Harvard’s initial regulatory document for an Enterprise Research Campus, located near the new Allston home of the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences.

Rhode Island Gov. Gina M. Raimondo ’93 has been elected to serve as chief marshal of the alumni at Harvard’s 367th Commencement Exercises.

At Harvard, the President’s Administrative Innovation Fund embraces creative problem-solving among staff members.

Harvard legal scholar Cass Sunstein has won the Holberg Prize, one of the largest international awards given to an outstanding researcher in the arts and humanities, the social sciences, law, or theology.

Explore the Harvard library’s treasure trove of games dating back to the 17th century.

Faust joined students at Philadelphia High School for Girls last week to discuss the importance of higher education and to urge the young women to pursue their dreams.

Come next fall, a new app will allow viewers to probe archaeological finds from Harvard’s earliest days.

As nor’easter slackens, Harvard freshmen throng the Yard after learning where they’ll live next, all part of the annual Housing Day.

Emma Dench, McLean Professor of Ancient and Modern History and of the Classics, will become the dean of Harvard’s Graduate School of Arts and Sciences beginning July 1. Dench will replace Xiao-Li Meng, the Whipple V. N. Jones Professor of Statistics, who was in the post for five years and is stepping down to join the Harvard Science Data Initiative.

The Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study has announced that former U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton will receive the prestigious Radcliffe Medal on May 25 during Harvard’s Commencement week.

Harvard President Drew Faust was among 49 college and university presidents who called on Congress to repeal the endowment tax enacted in December.

Professor Henrichs was an accomplished papyrologist and produced seminal studies across the breadth of Greek literature and religion.

Professor Ackerman was the most widely read architectural historian in America for decades.

Professor Jenkins completed groundbreaking work on gait, discovered a missing link in the evolution from fish to tetrapod, and chronicled an evolutionary step that helped to explain the origin of mammals.

With a $30 million grant from Priscilla Chan and Mark Zuckerberg, the Harvard Graduate School of Education and MIT’s Integrated Learning Initiative will launch Reach Every Reader, which combines cutting-edge education and neuroscience research to help end the childhood literacy crisis.