Campus & Community
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A walking elegy, tiny gallery, and gentle Brutalist
Photography professor recommends 3 local spots to find beauty, solace
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Faber appointed chief development officer for Faculty of Arts and Sciences
New associate vice president and dean of development for FAS to begin Aug. 25
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IT Summit focuses on balancing AI challenges and opportunities
With the tech here to stay, Michael Smith says professors, students must become sophisticated users
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When the falcons come home to roost
Birds of prey have rebounded since DDT era and returned to Memorial Hall. Now new livestream camera offers online visitors front row seat of storied perch.
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John C.P. Goldberg named Harvard Law School dean
John C.P. Goldberg named Harvard Law School dean Leading scholar in tort law and political philosophy has served as interim leader since March 2024
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Federal judge blocks Trump plan to ban international students at Harvard
Ruling notes administration action raises serious constitutional concerns
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Reach Every Reader targets early literacy crisis
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.
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Harvard evolves and grows, but maintains core mission
Your Harvard series takes President Drew Faust to San Francisco.
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Inclusion is the key
Harvard College’s Office for Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion, which includes the Office of BGLTQ Student Life, finds new home in renovated space inside Grays Hall.
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Charles Slichter, longtime Corporation member, dies at 94
Charles Pence Slichter ’45-’46, A.M. ’47, Ph.D. ’49, an internationally known physicist who won the National Medal of Science in 2007 and served on the Harvard Corporation for a quarter-century, died on Feb. 19. He was 94.
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Lewis named Harvard Commencement speaker
U.S. Rep. John Lewis, a Civil Rights leader who has represented Georgia’s 5th District for more than 30 years, will be the principal speaker at the Afternoon Program of Harvard’s 367th Commencement on May 24.
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Classroom theory, community action
Urban Health and Community Change,” a social studies course that debuted last semester, took students out of the classroom and into the Somerville community to roll up their sleeves and take practical action to help the less advantaged.
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Homeschooled en route to Harvard
Profiles of three students who were homeschooled before coming to Harvard.
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Harvard rolls out program to protect pedestrians and cyclists
To protect pedestrians and cyclists, Harvard will soon require side guards be installed on large trucks that are on campus.
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Towns, Juzang guide men’s basketball past Brown, 65-58
Harvard men’s basketball tallied a 65-58 victory over the Brown on Friday at Lavietes Pavilion. With Friday’s win, the Crimson remain in a tie for first place in the Ivy League standings.
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Solange Knowles is Harvard Foundation Artist of Year
Grammy Award-winning recording artist, songwriter, and visual artist Solange Knowles has been named the Harvard Foundation’s Artist of the Year.
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‘Am I black or am I white?’
Anthony Peterson dismantled society’s false narrative about race while sharing his own story during an FAS Diversity Dialogue discussion.
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Biggest gift to Divinity School
With a $25 million gift from Susan Shallcross Swartz and her husband James R. Swartz ’64, Harvard Divinity School’s Andover Hall will undergo a renewal, its first since construction more than 100 years ago.
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Record 42,742 apply to College Class of ’22
A record 42,742 students applied for admission to Harvard’s Class of 2022, breaking last year’s record of 39,506 for the current freshman class.
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Trusted voice among leaders in higher education
Harvard’s next president, Lawrence Bacow, is known among his peers in higher ed as someone they can turn to for advice.
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Praise, optimism in reaction to Bacow choice
Members of the Harvard community weighed in with their thoughts Monday on the selection of former Tufts University president Lawrence S. Bacow as Harvard’s next leader.
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John Harvard’s Charlestown
After a recent snowfall, we explored the neighborhood of the University’s namesake and spoke with historian Rosemary Kverek of Charlestown and Cambridge Historical Commission Director Charles Sullivan.
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Bacow, named Harvard president, meets the press
Larry Bacow, named Harvard president, meets the press.
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Harvard names Lawrence S. Bacow as 29th president
Lawrence S. Bacow, one of the most experienced and respected leaders in American higher education, will become the 29th president of Harvard University on July 1.
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Basketball court dedicated to Thomas G. Stemberg ’71
Harvard Athletics and the men’s and women’s basketball programs have announced the dedication of the court in the newly renovated Lavietes Pavilion as the Thomas G. Stemberg ’71 Court.
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Medal or no medal, a golden opportunity
Harvard star Ryan Donato ’19 will skate for USA hockey in the Winter Olympics, upholding a family tradition.
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‘Sketching’ with clay
Ben Owen III of North Carolina comes from a long line of potters. The master potter demonstrated his technique at a Harvard Ceramics Program workshop.
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To compete, they let it slide
Friday marks the opening of the Olympic Games in Pyeongchang, South Korea, where one of the winter competition’s quirkier events will again attract viewers who often start off unsure what to make of it, and end up die-hard fans. Many who give a try it are instantly hooked. Just ask Harvard junior Neekon Vafa, president of the Harvard Curling Team, which was fourth in the college championships last year.
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Serving up community and sustainable fare
The renovation of the Richard A. and Susan F. Smith Campus Center is on schedule, and food vendors have been announced for its fall opening.
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Randi Griffin ’10 to play for unified women’s hockey team at Olympics
Former Harvard women’s ice hockey player Randi Griffin ’10, a dual citizen of the United States and South Korea, will play for the unified Korean team at the Pyeongchang Olympics.
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College grad finds ‘endless’ opportunities in public service
Omar Khoshafa ’17 has been named this year’s Harvard Presidential City of Boston Fellow.
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Philip Alden Kuhn, 82
At a Meeting of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences on Feb. 6, 2018, the Minute honoring the life and service of the Philip A. Kuhn, Francis Lee Higginson Professor of History and of East Asian Languages and Civilizations Emeritus was placed upon the records. Professor Kuhn, through artful, deeply researched storytelling, reshaped approaches to modern China for historians everywhere.
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J. Richard Hackman, 73
At a Meeting of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences on Feb. 6, 2018, the Minute honoring the life and service of the late J. Richard Hackman, Edgar Pierce Professor of Social and Organizational Psychology, was placed upon the records. Professor Hackman sought to understand the elemental ability of living beings to operate as collectives to achieve the incomprehensible.
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Abdelhamid Sabra, 89
At a Meeting of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences on Feb. 6, 2018, the Minute honoring the life and service of the late Abdelhamid Ibrahim Sabra, Professor of the History of Arabic Science emeritus was placed upon the records. Professor Sabra was best known for his extensive investigations into medieval and early modern optics and into the work of al-Hasan ibn al-Haytham.
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Harvard makes climate pledge to end fossil fuel use
Members of Harvard climate change task force explain how they reached ambitious goals to end fossil fuel use on campus by 2050.
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Paul Rudd honored as Hasty Pudding’s Man of the Year
Paul Rudd, a staple of comedic cinema for the past 25 years, was recognized as Hasty Pudding Theatricals’ 2018 Man of the Year on Feb. 2.