Campus & Community

Scott A. Abell ’72 has been elected president of Harvard’s Board of Overseers for the academic year 2017-18. Tracy P. Palandjian ’93, M.B.A. ’97, will serve as vice chair of the Overseers executive committee for 2017-18.

Eight Harvard faculty elected as members of the National Academy of Sciences.

The five faculty members named Harvard College Professors this month all share a talent for making their respective subjects come alive in the classroom.

In an annual ritual, Lowell House residents rise early to greet May Day by the river.

At a Meeting of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences on May 2, 2017, the following Minute was placed upon the records.

David Cox and Lorgia García Peña are winners of the 2017 Roslyn Abramson Award for excellence in undergraduate teaching.

Dan Byers has been named as the John R. and Barbara Robinson Family Director of the Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, effective June 1.

David Coletti is a peer adviser, a PBHA volunteer, and international traveler who says conversations have broken down barriers and fostered connections key to his time at Harvard.

Interview with Professor Annette Gordon-Reed of Harvard Law School and the Faculty of Arts and Sciences as part of the Experience series.

Undergrads Samuel Fisch and Lance Oppenheim take over Harvard’s Instagram account to highlight Arts First and the student experience of the arts at Harvard.

A panel at Harvard Divinity School included the deans of the Law School, Business School, and Ed School. The focus was how the Divinity School could be of assistance.

Surgeries transformed Elaine Dong’s face and her future, freeing her to mix visual arts with the art of medicine.

Ph.D. graduate Jisung Park focuses on the natural environment’s effects on society—a boyhood interest that grew first in Kansas, then sharpened in Seoul.

Professor Orlando Patterson is the 17th honoree of the Harvard Foundation for Intercultural and Race Relations’ Portraiture Project.

“Toward an Artificial Brain” brought the results of a Harvard-led effort to Allston with an Ed Portal discussion.

Organized by an all-volunteer group of students, community members, and trained artists, the opera offers undergrads the opportunity to learn on the job while rubbing shoulders with seasoned professionals.

On April 26 the members of the Faculty Council approved preliminary versions of the University Extension School courses for 2017–2018 and of “Courses of Instruction” for 2017–2018.

Albert Henrichs, longtime Harvard scholar and Eliot Professor of Greek Literature, dies at 74.

At Harvard, the percentages of women and minorities on the faculty have reached new highs, study says.

Sean Kelly and Cheryl Chen named faculty deans of Dunster House, while L. “Maha” and Amala Mahadevan will oversee Mather House.

John Lithgow sat down with the Gazette to talk about how he got his start in acting, his formative years in theater on campus, and his deep affection for Harvard.

The eighth annual Harvard Graduate Council’s Leadership Conference brought industry leaders from around the globe to share their experience.

Interview with Nobel Prize winner Martin Karplus as part of the Experience series.

Five grants from the Harvard Campus Sustainability Innovation Fund were awarded for student research projects.

Childhood cancer survivor Taylor Carol found hope through music and turned it into his thesis.

Congressman and Civil Rights leader John Lewis receives award and urges his listeners to act against injustice.

Varsha Varman is a step closer to reaching her goals thanks in part to financial aid from Harvard.

Aislinn Brophy was one of the first to study Theater, Dance & Media when the concentration launched two years ago, and believes her pioneering experience bodes well for the future.

With the odds against her, Eni Dervishi saw beyond her small town in Albania and used languages as her stepping stones.

Plans for Harvard’s 2017 Summer Youth Employment Program, which employs student workers to assist the University with summer staffing needs, is taking applications.