Year: 2012

  • Campus & Community

    You’re all right, lefty

    On the baseball diamond, senior Brent Suter serves up pitches, and off the field he pitches service.

  • Campus & Community

    HAA announces Harvard Medalists

    The Harvard Alumni Association (HAA) has named Charles W. Collier, Ellen R. and Melvin J. Gordon, Harry L. Parker, and Susan S. Wallach the recipients of the 2012 Harvard Medal.

  • Campus & Community

    Center for European Studies funds undergraduate research

    The Center for European Studies recently 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.

  • Campus & Community

    GSAS honors its leading alumni

    The Centennial Medal is the highest honor awarded by the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, given annually during Commencement week to celebrate the achievements of a select group of Harvard University’s most accomplished alumni.

  • Campus & Community

    Eight receive honorary degrees

    Journalist Fareed Zakari, who was chosen as the principal speaker at the Afternoon Exercises, is among those to be presented an honoroary degree at Harvard’s 361st Commencement.

  • Campus & Community

    O, hear the bells

    A joyous peal of bells will ring throughout Cambridge today. In celebration of the city of Cambridge and of the country’s oldest university — and of our earlier history when bells of varying tones summoned us from sleep to prayer, work or study — this ancient yet new sound will fill Harvard Square and the…

  • Campus & Community

    A Class Day doubleheader

    At Class Day, U.S. Rep. Barney Frank ’61, J.D. ’77, and comedian Andy Samberg offered words of wisdom and wit to Harvard’s graduating Class of 2012.

  • Campus & Community

    In full regalia, and ready to regale

    This year’s accomplished trio of Commencement orators draws inspiration from diverse sources, from the late Rev. Peter J. Gomes to Japanese haiku to the Latin inscription on Dexter Gate.

  • Campus & Community

    Award honors beloved mentor

    Students and faculty celebrated the inauguration of the Arthur P. Dempster Award. The award recognizes promising graduate students in the Statistics Department, especially those working in theoretical and foundational statistics.

  • Arts & Culture

    A.R.T. reaps Tony Awards notice

    Diane Paulus, artistic director of the American Repertory Theater (A.R.T.), and her reimagined production of “Porgy and Bess” nabbed 10 Tony Award nominations, and another musical with ties to the A.R.T. grabbed 11.

  • Campus & Community

    Finnegan elected to Corporation

    Paul J. Finnegan, A.B. ’75, M.B.A. ’82, a widely admired member of the University’s Board of Overseers, past president of the Harvard Alumni Association, and co-CEO of a leading Chicago-based investment firm, has been elected to become the newest member of the Harvard Corporation, the University announced May 23.

  • Campus & Community

    Stepping up

    A day before graduating, four Harvard seniors receive their military commissions.

  • Health

    Taking the long way home

    A Harvard graduate student has shown that some Australian and Pacific Island daddy longlegs took an unusual path to their new homes: drifting from the Americas and then island-hopping to their new continental home in Australia.

  • Campus & Community

    Lessons for the lucky few

    In her Baccalaureate Address, President Drew Faust urged graduates of the Class of 2012 to be mindful of their good fortune — and to embrace the responsibilities a privileged education bestows on them.

  • Campus & Community

    Sharp messages

    Poet Kay Ryan and former Harvard President Derek Bok blended wit and wisdom in addressing top-ranked seniors at the 222nd Phi Beta Kappa Literary Exercises on May 22.

  • Campus & Community

    Commencements, from 1642 onward

    In its earliest years, the struggling College was chronically short of money and sometimes even graduates.

  • Campus & Community

    Motley crew receives ACLS honors

    The American Council of Learned Societies awarded fellowships and grants to faculty, fellows, and students at Harvard.

  • Campus & Community

    Four from HBS win Dean’s Award

    Four members of the Harvard Business School M.B.A. Class of 2012 have been named winners of the School’s prestigious Dean’s Award.

  • Arts & Culture

    Where the magic happens

    We asked several Harvard authors to talk about something different, not what’s in their books but where and how they write them. Here’s what they said.

  • Health

    Following the worm

    Harvard research examining the nervous system of Caenorhabditis elegans — tiny, transparent worms — suggest a path for investigations that may shed light on disorders such as schizophrenia.

  • Health

    Scientists restore basic vision in lab mice

    A researcher at Harvard-affiliated Children’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School has regenerated optic nerves in laboratory animals and restored basic vision to the animals.

  • Science & Tech

    Toxic mercury springs from a hidden source

    Environmental scientists at Harvard have discovered that the Arctic accumulation of mercury, a toxic element, is caused by both atmospheric forces and the flow of circumpolar rivers that carry the element north into the Arctic Ocean.

  • Nation & World

    Power, personified

    In a talk on his book “The Rise and Fall of Arab Presidents for Life,” Professor Roger Owen described how the Arab world’s dictators came to power — and how their curious political network helped fuel the eventual uprisings against some of them.

  • Campus & Community

    Q&A with Jane Mendillo

    The Harvard Gazette sat down with Jane Mendillo, the president and CEO of the Harvard Management Company (HMC), to discuss the opportunities in today’s global markets.

  • Campus & Community

    Harvard student, Mexican politician

    When Lilia Aguilar earns her Kennedy School degree, she’ll return to her homeland to ramp up her campaign for a seat in congress.

  • Science & Tech

    A forest washing into the sea

    Harvard researchers probe environmental shifts on Martha’s Vineyard, where they document one wooded area’s recovery from a massive die-off and another’s passage into the ocean.

  • Campus & Community

    Garber, Gawande elected into APS

    Marjorie Garber and Atul Gawande have been elected members of the American Philosophical Society.

  • Campus & Community

    Splendid acres

    A thousand or so visitors wandered the colorful collections of Harvard’s Arnold Arboretum on Lilac Sunday.

  • Health

    Vivid details

    A landmark effort to sequence the genome of the butterfly Heliconius melpomene has revealed that it shares genes that control color patterns with two species that closely mimic its appearance — Heliconius timareta and Heliconius elevatus — suggesting that all three exchange genes as a result of occasional hybridization.

  • Campus & Community

    A maestro and a wordsmith

    Senior Matt Aucoin immersed himself in Harvard’s rich worlds of poetry and music, with a degree in English, a passion for writing and composing, and a future destined for The New Yorker, or the conductor’s chair, or both.