Featured series 
Year: 2011
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Nation & World
The threat of nuclear terror
Joint U.S.-Russian assessment, produced in part through Harvard Kennedy School, warns of ongoing threat from nuclear terror, and says quick action is needed to avoid attack.
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Health
It doesn’t add up
An important new finding by Harvard researchers indicates that cellular mutations responsible for an organism’s successful adaptation do not, when combined over time, provide as much benefit as they would individually be expected to provide.
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Science & Tech
A supernova that’s super different
A researcher at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics has uncovered a new way that stars end their lives, in a bright, fast explosion that appears different from the known characteristics of the stellar cataclysms called supernovas.
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Campus & Community
Commencement Week: The long winding train
These photographs offer a tribute to the women and men of the Class of 2011, who become the most recent link in the “long winding train” of Harvard graduates.
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Health
What’s behind aggressive breast cancer
Harvard scientists at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute have identified an overactive network of growth-spurring genes that drive stem-like breast cancer cells enriched in triple-negative breast tumors, a typically aggressive cancer that is highly resistant to current therapies.
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Campus & Community
Faculty invited to seek January grants
This summer, Harvard faculty may want to start thinking about proposals for the President’s January Innovation Fund for Faculty, which begins accepting new applications on Sept. 1. Launched last year, the fund provides grants to faculty across Harvard for the development and implementation of creative learning experiences for students during Winter Break.
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Health
ADHD linked to substance abuse risk
In a long-term study by Harvard researchers, data support the association between childhood ADHD and substance abuse risk.
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Arts & Culture
A.R.T. nabs six Elliot Norton Awards
The 2011 Elliot Norton Awards, awarded on May 23 at the Paramount Theatre in Boston, honored the American Repertory Theater (A.R.T.) with six awards in the Large Theater category.
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Nation & World
Schools of the future
Drawing on their experience as young educators and designers, students from two very different disciplines joined forces to create fresh concepts for daily learning.
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Campus & Community
ACLS honors students, grads, faculty
Current Harvard students, recent graduates, and two professors are among those recently awarded fellowships and grants by the American Council of Learned Societies.
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Campus & Community
When traditions gave way to war
The Class of 1941 returned to Harvard for its 70th reunion, with its defining war and its youth long past. Graduate John Ambrose recalls the times.
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Nation & World
Transforming from within
Ela Bhatt, a lead women’s organizer in India, spoke about social change and personal transformation on Radcliffe Day.
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Campus & Community
A difficult journey, a brighter future
In her Commencement address, Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf says her Harvard graduate studies put her on the path to the success. She urged degree recipients to be fearless and to embrace their failures as they forge their paths in life.
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Campus & Community
Moments that make Commencement
After weeks of rain and cold, Harvard ended the 2010-11 year on a postcard-perfect day of azure skies and warming breezes. Most of the focus was on the speeches and rituals of Tercentenary Theatre, of course. But all across Harvard Yard, where graduating students, faculty, families, and friends gathered, there were thousands of magical moments…
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Campus & Community
Overseers 2011 election results
The president of the Harvard Alumni Association (HAA) today (May 26) announced the results of the annual election of new members of the Harvard Board of Overseers. The results were released at the annual meeting of the association following the University’s 360th Commencement.
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Campus & Community
Text of Ellen Johnson Sirleaf’s speech
H.E. Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, president of the Republic of Liberia, delivered her address at the Afternoon Exercises at Harvard’s 360th Commencement on May 26, 2011.
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Nation & World
Accompanying the underserved
“The road from policy development to implementation is usually long and rocky, one that must be trod with companions,” Paul Farmer, University Professor and co-founder of Partners In Health, told Harvard Kennedy School graduates on May 25.
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Campus & Community
Degrees, certificates awarded
Today the University awarded a total of 7,147 degrees and 70 certificates. Harvard College granted a total of 1,556 degrees.
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Campus & Community
CES announces student grant winners
The Center for European Studies has announced its 2011-12 student grant winners, continuing its long tradition of promoting and funding student research on political, historical, economic, social, cultural, and intellectual trends in modern or contemporary Europe.
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Campus & Community
John Lemuel Bethune
John Lemuel Bethune received his Ph.D. in 1961 and moved to Boston and Harvard Medical School to join the Biophysics Research Laboratory under the direction of Bert Vallee and located in the Peter Bent Brigham Hospital.
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Campus & Community
Asia Center to support summer travel for 68 students
The Harvard University Asia Center was established in 1997 to reflect Harvard’s deep commitment to Asia and the growing connections between Asian nations.
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Campus & Community
South Asia Initiative
Since its inception in 2003, the South Asia Initiative continues the long tradition of collaboration between Harvard and South Asia’s nations.
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Campus & Community
Strong voices
The Radcliffe Institute on May 27 will honor Ela Bhatt, founder of the Self Employed Women’s Association of India, with the Radcliffe Institute Medal. Bhatt’s organization has improved the self-sufficiency of more than a million women.
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Campus & Community
A lifelong learner
When Ethel Stafford halted her education to raise her children, she didn’t shed tears. She knew she would return to her studies. At age 60, she graduates from the Extension School with a bachelor’s and plans for a new career.
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Campus & Community
Speaking for their class, to the world
Two Harvard College seniors and a Harvard Kennedy School student carry on the tradition of Commencement orations, given in English and in Latin.
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Campus & Community
Thoughtful leadership
Marcel Moran ’11 of Eliot House and Annie Douglas ’12 of Adams House have been named this year’s David and Mimi Aloian Memorial Scholars.
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Campus & Community
Center for Jewish Studies awards seniors
The Center for Jewish Studies at Harvard University has announced the recipients of the 2011 Norman Podhoretz Prize in Jewish Studies and the 2011 Selma and Lewis Weinstein Prize in Jewish Studies.
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Campus & Community
Two colleges, quiet times
Harvard and Radcliffe were very different places 50 years ago, but the bonds that tie members of the Class of ’61 to Cambridge remain strong.
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Campus & Community
A degree delivered
Harvard awards degree to Native American who completed studies in 1665 but died before Commencement.
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Campus & Community
Miller wins Radcliffe’s Fay Prize
The Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study has named Matthew Smith Miller winner of the 2011 Captain Jonathan Fay Prize for his interdisciplinary work and extensive research on his thesis, “Surely His Mother Mourns for Him: Africans on Exhibition in Boston and New York, 1860-1861.”
