Campus & Community

Ruth Bielfeldt, Harris K. Weston Associate Professor of the Humanities, and Sarah Richardson, John L. Loeb Associate Professor of the Social Sciences, are this year’s winners of the Roslyn Abramson Award, given annually to assistant or associate professors for excellence in undergraduate teaching.

Seven Harvard faculty members were elected to the National Academy of Sciences.

Arts First, Harvard’s spring weekend festival, embraces creativity, audience participation.

Former Harvard College Dean Charles Preston Whitlock died on April 27 after a brief illness. He was 95. A memorial service will be held May 2.

On April 29 the members of the Faculty Council approved preliminary versions of the University Extension School courses for 2015-16 and Courses of Instruction for 2015-16.

Harvard’s Lowell House Opera is the longest continually performing opera company in New England.

A freshman returns to Visitas, the annual weekend focused on incoming Harvard College students, and views their weekend through fresh eyes.

Awards given after New Venture Competition celebrate entrepreneurship at Harvard Business School.

Claudine Gay, a Harvard professor of government and African and African American Studies, and a distinguished scholar of mass political behavior, has been appointed dean of social science in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences.

Seven students from Harvard’s Graduate School of Arts and Sciences were awarded Fulbright Fellowships earlier this week. The scholars’ research will take them across the globe — to Africa, Asia, and Europe.

Roland Fryer, Harvard’s Henry Lee Professor of Economics, has been awarded the American Economic Association’s John Bates Clark Medal, which is given annually to a rising young economist.

Four graduating seniors will begin yearlong fellowships as part of the Fulbright Scholars program administered by the U.S. Department of State. Joy Ming, Tyreke White, and Amanda Reilly will all complete their studies at the Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences this year.

The emergency communications startup RapidSOS was awarded $70,000 as the winner of the fourth President’s Challenge.

The 24th annual Harvard Invitational ballroom competition, organized by the University’s ballroom team, happened in downtown Boston April 11 and 12.

Actress Natalie Portman ’03 has been selected as Class Day speaker for Harvard College. Portman will address the graduating class on May 27, the day before the 364th Commencement.

The American Academy of Arts and Sciences today announced the election of 197 new members, including 10 from Harvard.

At Harvard’s 364th Commencement, award-winning author and journalist Farai Chideya ’90 will lead her class as this year’s chief marshal.

Thomas J. Hollister, a business executive with expertise in global financial management and banking, has been named Harvard’s chief financial officer and vice president for finance.

A Harvard College freshman reflects on a year of people, professors, pacing, and appreciating.

At Harvard, the commitment to a healthier, more sustainable campus is ingrained in the culture, how people learn, work, and live. Initiatives across the University’s Schools and departments bring faculty, students, and staff together in creating solutions with the ultimate goal of enhancing the well-being of everyone in the Harvard community.

For the next week, Daniel Chester French’s iconic statue will be animated by the faces, voices, and gestures of Harvard students as part of “John Harvard Projection,” a video installation created by artist and Harvard Graduate School of Design Professor Krzysztof Wodiczko.

Five winners have been named as recipients of this year’s Star Family Challenge for Promising Scientific Research awards. Now in its second year, the challenge is designed to acknowledge and support some of the most innovative research being done by Harvard faculty in the natural and social sciences.

On April 15 the members of the council met with the president and asked and answered questions as representatives of the faculty.

A sample in images from the abundance of hats — Panama, pillbox, porkpie, and more — in Harvard’s holdings.

According to the University’s Sustainability Report, released online today, various conservation measures and behavior changes have already contributed to 60 percent of Harvard’s progress in meeting its goal to reduce greenhouse gas emissions 30 percent by 2016.

Julio Frenk, dean of the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, will become the next president of the University of Miami, it was announced today. Frenk, the T & G Angelopoulos Professor of Public Health and International Development (a joint appointment with the Harvard Kennedy School), will step down at the end of August and assume his new role on Sept 1.

Harvard’s Task Force on the Prevention of Sexual Assault is launching a survey of the student body to determine the prevalence of sexual assault, harassment, and related misconduct at Harvard in an effort to not only gain a better understanding of the magnitude of the problem, but to inform efforts at prevention.

At 10 a.m. on April 10, the Memorial Church will host a service in remembrance of William R. Crout, founder of the Paul Tillich Lectures.

Rob Reider, an administrative coordinator with Harvard’s Campus Services, is also a longtime rocker.

Interview with Professor Helen Vendler as part of the Experience series.