Campus & Community

In her final Baccalaureate Address as Harvard’s president, transformation was a theme Drew Faust returned to repeatedly.

Poet Kevin Young ’92 had something of a homecoming as he returned to speak before the honored students and faculty at Harvard’s annual Phi Beta Kappa Literary Exercises.

Harvard’s incoming and outgoing presidents sit down with Gazette to talk about the value of humility in decision-making and the biggest challenges facing higher education.

Harvard Law School grad Raj Salhotra launched a program to provide mentors to help others find path to college.

In the Experience series, Paul Farmer talks Partners In Health, “Harvard-Haiti,” and making the lives of the poor the fight of his life.

For the 30th consecutive year, neighboring churches and institutions will ring their bells at the conclusion of Harvard’s 367th Commencement Exercises.

A gift from Josh Friedman ’76, M.B.A. ’80, J.D. ’82, and Beth Friedman, longstanding benefactors of the University, will double the resources available for high-risk, high-reward science, allowing more of the most ambitious research projects at Harvard to move forward.

The annual awards created through a gift from James A. Star ’83 fund research unlikely to be funded through other programs — risky studies with the potential to contribute to radical new understandings of our world.

Susan L. Carney, a federal appeals court judge, has been elected president of Harvard University’s Board of Overseers. Gwill E. York, co-founder and managing director of Lighthouse Capital Partners, will be vice chair.

At the annual meeting of the Harvard Alumni Association on Commencement Day, President Drew Faust will present the 2018 Harvard Medal to Robert Coles ’50, Robert N. Shapiro ’72, J.D. ’78, and Alice “Acey” Welch ’53 in recognition of their service to the University.

After James Venable graduates in May with his bachelor’s degree, he heads to Yale Divinity School to work on a master’s degree in divinity, with plans to return to Harvard for a master’s in theological studies, and go on to Princeton for a doctorate in African-American religion.

As Susan Morris Novick ’85 concludes her tenure as Harvard Alumni Association (HAA) president, she is optimistic about the future of the HAA as she prepares to hand the reins to her successor, Margaret Wang ’09.

The first woman to earn tenure at the GSD and the first to chair the department of architecture has made a career of making statements.

So far 82 percent of the students admitted to the Class of 2022 have notified Harvard they will matriculate to campus this August.

Though Harvard has been working to reduce sexual and gender harassment for years, it’s adding to its Title IX efforts.

The return of members of the Harvard and Radcliffe Class of 1968 for the 50th anniversary of their graduation proves cause to revisit an era of sweeping change.

The professor who put forward the idea of multiple intelligences talks about his adventures in learning for the Experience series.

A Q&A with Fletcher Maynard Academy principal Robin Harris on the impact of Harvard’s “Mind Matters” program at the Cambridge school.

After an internship with the Children’s Defense Fund Freedom Schools changed her life, Nicole Powell changed her trajectory and headed for Harvard Divinity School.

The Harvard Allston Partnership Fund has provided more than $1 million in grants since its inception 10 years ago. The 10th anniversary was marked by a celebration at Allston’s Raymond V. Mellone Park when $100,000 in grants were recently announced.

Using her head and her hands, Haley Curtin ’18 has built the foundation of a meaningful life. Meaningful first of all to her.

Long-anticipated renovations will begin this summer, preserving the building’s legacy while also bringing it into the 21st century.

Derek Miller, John L. Loeb Associate Professor of the Humanities, and Elizabeth Hinton, assistant professor of history and of African and African-American studies, are winners of the Roslyn Abramson Award.

The President’s Innovation Challenge recognized three student ventures, STEMgem, OZÉ, and PionEar, with $75,000 in prize money from the Bertarelli Foundation to help them turn their ideas into impactful, real-world ventures.

Family, history, and the 1960s all helped to shape the higher ed leader, but it was illness that urged her forward.

Crowds top 15,000 over the festival’s four days.

At a Meeting of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences on May 1, 2018, the Minute honoring the life and service of the late Eugene George Rochow, Professor of Chemistry, Emeritus, was placed upon the records. Professor Rochow took on challenging realms of organometallic chemistry and ceramics, nuclear chemistry, and education.

At a Meeting of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences on May 1, 2018, the Minute honoring the life and service of the late Leonard Kollender Nash, William R. Kenan, Jr., Professor of Chemistry, Emeritus, was placed upon the records. Professor Nash conducted research in thermodynamics and statistical mechanics and was a famously inspiring teacher.

At a Meeting of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences on May 1, 2018, the Minute honoring the life and service of the late William Aloys Klemperer, Erving Professor of Chemistry Emeritus, was placed upon the records. Professor Klemperer was among the world’s leaders in molecular spectroscopy.

Bridget Terry Long will become the new dean of the Harvard Graduate School of Education in July.