Featured series 
Year: 2014
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Campus & Community
Their memories and hopes
A budding mathematician, an international thinker, and a creative achiever are the student speakers at Harvard’s 2014 Morning Exercises.
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Campus & Community
An immigrant triumph
After leaving Brazil at age 11 for the United States, Eric Westphal ’14 learned English and started climbing life’s ladder, culminating as an honors graduate.
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Campus & Community
A hand up to a better future
Graduating senior Jesse Sanchez has come a long way from the poor streets of San Diego’s City Heights neighborhood, and now wants to help those struggling toward college.
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Campus & Community
Support on the cutting edge
Supporter James A. Star ’83 was on hand at a ceremony to honor the inaugural winners in the Star Family Challenge for Promising Scientific Research.
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Campus & Community
Listen for the bells
In celebration of the city of Cambridge and of the country’s oldest university, a number of neighboring churches and institutions ring their bells at the conclusion of Harvard’s 363rd Commencement Exercises, for the 26th consecutive year.
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Campus & Community
Partners, from grade school to Medical School
Fraternal twins Rosh and Roshan Sethi have shared much of their lives, including at Yale as undergraduates and sharing an apartment while enrolled at Harvard Medical School. Now preparing to graduate, they’re anticipating diverging careers, with Roshan exploring radiation oncology and Rosh head and neck surgery.
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Campus & Community
The import of ‘Breaking Good’
Harvard President Drew Faust bid farewell to the graduating seniors of the Class of 2014 on Tuesday during the annual Baccalaureate Service in Harvard’s Memorial Church.
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Campus & Community
Celebrating the intellect
The traditional Phi Beta Kappa Literary Exercises featured awards, music, and advice from a poet and a novelist.
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Science & Tech
Impact of pesticide residue hard to track, experts say
Researchers face steep challenges in trying to pinpoint the long-term effects of pesticides in the food supply, said panelists at HSPH.
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Campus & Community
Beyond the horizon
Harvard is immersed in understanding the world and improving it. Here’s how the University is making a difference now, and likely will do so in the next decade, in five key fields.
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Campus & Community
Beyond the horizon
Harvard is immersed in understanding the world and improving it. Here’s how the University is making a difference now, and likely will do so in the next decade, in five key fields.
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Arts & Culture
Summertime, and the reading is easy
A look at what Harvard faculty members will be reading in their downtime this summer.
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Campus & Community
Tough as a rugby player
A fierce field general on the women’s rugby team, Harvard College senior Shelby Lin is also a math and economics star with a bright future.
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Health
Putting off baby
Panelists at HSPH examined the trend toward delayed parenting identified in a recent government report.
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Nation & World
The groundwork for learning abroad
The President’s Innovation Fund for International Experiences is supporting development by faculty members of courses in Sweden, Mexico, Turkey, Shanghai, and other locations abroad to enhance the international experiences offered to Harvard students.
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Campus & Community
Early outlines for Smith Center
Extensive outreach within the Harvard community is beginning to shape the development of the Richard A. and Susan F. Smith Campus Center as a cornerstone addition to President Drew Faust’s Common Spaces initiative.
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Campus & Community
To win a contract, win a contest
A new class at Harvard’s Graduate School of Design, “Design Competitions,” used the academic setting this semester to look at a competitive activity familiar (and exhausting) to architects and planners worldwide.
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Arts & Culture
On a date, with everyone
Artist creates wide-open Web programs to gain personal insights.
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Health
Strategy for diabetes treatment
Harvard scientists have discovered a compound that inhibits insulin-degrading enzyme from breaking down insulin in the body.
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Campus & Community
Survey finds faculty satisfaction rate at 81 percent
The vast majority of Harvard faculty report that they are satisfied with their positions here, according to the latest Faculty Climate Survey released today by the Office for Faculty Development and Diversity.
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Arts & Culture
A light touch for Rothko murals
Abstract artist Mark Rothko’s series of Harvard murals will be displayed in November using a digital technology that casts light on the paintings to restore their faded colors.
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Campus & Community
‘Puzzling out’ Paul
Harvard Professor Laura Nasrallah encouraged a crowd at the Harvard Allston Education Portal to consider the historical letters of Christian texts — an effort she explores in her HarvardX course “Letters of Paul.”
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Campus & Community
Eric Mazur wins Minerva Prize
The Minerva Academy on Tuesday named Eric Mazur the first winner of the Minerva Prize for Advancements in Higher Education.
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Campus & Community
‘Physics was paradise’
Interview with Professor Melissa Franklin as part of the Experience series.
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Campus & Community
Faculty Council meeting held May 14
On May 14 the members of the Faculty Council met in camera to discuss a student disciplinary case.
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Arts & Culture
‘The Kid Who Would Be Pope’
Harvard’s Office for the Arts Director Jack Megan isn’t just a supporter of artistic talent, he’s a talented artist himself. Megan and his brother Tom co-wrote the musical “The Kid Who Would Be Pope,” which won the Richard Rodgers Award for emerging theatrical talent and is having a stage reading off-Broadway.
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Campus & Community
May Day poetry at Lowell House
As part of the traditional daylong May Day celebration, a poetry reading by the Lowell House Poemical Society took place May 1 at Lowell House, with festivities also featuring an early morning waltz on the Weeks Bridge, a bacchanal, and a recital with the historic Lowell House bells.
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Health
Research to lose sleep over
Will Clerx ’14 studied how going without sleep for long periods affects undergraduates.
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Campus & Community
HAA honors three
President Drew Faust will award Harvard Medals to three alumni during the Annual Meeting of the Harvard Alumni Association on Commencement Day, May 29. Recipients include Anand G. Mahindra ’77, M.B.A. ’81, J. Louis Newell ’57, and Emily Rauh Pulitzer, A.M. ’63.
