Campus & Community
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You know the author. Meet the typist.
Exhibit celebrates women who labored behind the scenes of masterworks
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Karin Öberg named senior vice provost for faculty
Distinguished astrochemist will shift to University-wide role overseeing faculty affairs and development
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Atlas Hotel opens at the Enterprise Research Campus
Art, food, views help give Allston space local flavor
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Like seeing art of Roman chapels in technicolor for first time
Students create relief sculptures in stucco using centuries-old methods to gain deeper insight into how, why artists made choices
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Conan O’Brien ’85 named Commencement speaker
Comedy legend who once led Lampoon will deliver principal address on May 28
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Singer to step down as senior vice provost for faculty
Education scholar lauded for achievements in overseeing, leading changes in faculty development, support for academics since 2008
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A ‘Wicked’ good time
Actor, singer Cynthia Erivo celebrated as Hasty’s 2025 Woman of the Year
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A family at School when home is far away
Program has connected affiliates, new international students for more than 40 years
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Doing College with ball in one hand, bow in the other
Bradford Dickson plays on Crimson water polo team, and as a Harvard-Berklee cellist
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What a Hamm
Film and TV star has some fun as Hasty’s 2025 Man of the Year
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From sending thank-you notes to touching your co-worker’s food, she’s ruled on it all
Business School’s Robin Abrahams — aka Miss Conduct — reflects on 20 years of etiquette trends as she retires Globe advice column
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Boston, Harvard announce affordable housing funding
Nearly 100 units to be created in Allston
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Harvard University Housing establishes new rents for 2025–2026
Increase on average 5% for renewing tenants
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Harvard partners with national nonprofit to recruit high-achieving low-income students
First QuestBridge Scholars will matriculate in fall 2026
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Jodie Foster to receive Radcliffe Medal
Will be recognized for her barrier-breaking career
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New VP named for alumni affairs and development
James J. Husson returns to Harvard to succeed Brian K. Lee this spring
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Cynthia Erivo is Hasty’s Woman of the Year
‘Wicked’ star will receive Pudding Pot on Feb. 5
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Spreading gospel — and strategies — of productive disagreement
Eric Beerbohm looks back on successes, challenges of first year of new Civil Discourse initiative
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Alumni donations drive progress in Economics Department
Gifts support professorships, spaces in future Pritzker Hall
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Alumni committee announces Harvard board candidates
Voting for Overseers and HAA elected directors starts April 1
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Jon Hamm named Man of the Year
Hasty Pudding to honor award-winning actor on Jan. 31
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Martin Karplus, pioneering figure in theoretical chemistry, dies at 94
Nobel Prize winner helped transform understanding of molecular systems
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Natural Black hair, and why it matters
With deep significance for identity, choice, even legality, it’s more than just a woman’s crowning glory
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Voice of a generation? Dylan’s is much more than that.
Classics professor who wrote ‘Why Bob Dylan Matters’ on the challenge of capturing a master of creative evasion
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Universal, adaptable, wearable, vulnerable
‘On Display Harvard’ uses performance, zip ties, to bring attention to the UN’s International Day of Persons With Disabilities
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Three Harvard students named Marshall Scholars
‘Chance of a lifetime’ for recipients whose fields include history, genomics, K-12 education
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Seeing is believing
Personal and global history made Jeremy Weinstein want to change the world. As dean of the Kennedy School, he’s found the perfect place to do it.
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Life stories with a beat you can dance to
Renowned actress and tap dancer Ayodele Casel premieres her autobiographical musical at A.R.T.
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Reckoning with past, striving for better future
Street at Arnold Arboretum renamed Flora Way to honor enslaved woman
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Garber installed as Harvard’s 31st president
Friends and family, colleagues honor leader who ‘radiates trustworthiness’
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Corporation strengthens engagement to inform support of research and teaching, presidential search in 2026
Pritzker expresses optimism on efforts to bring community together
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Why I changed my mind
Harvard students describe a time they saw the world in a new light
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Helen Vendler, 90
At a meeting of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences on Dec. 3, 2024, the following tribute to the life and service of the late Helen Vendler was spread upon the permanent records of the Faculty.
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Not so much the form, but the function
Brutalist, iconic Gund Hall undergoes 1st major renovation since opening in ’72. Now, hopefully, the roof will stop leaking.
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Updating their 3-word bios
Juniors who talked to us when they first arrived here — and again as sophomores — reflect on how they’ve changed
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Rhodes scholars share their Oxford ambitions
8 students to pursue social, political, computational sciences