The Corporation Committee on Shareholder Responsibility (CCSR), a committee of the Harvard Corporation, today released its 2021-2022 Annual Report.   The report summarizes the work and activities of the CCSR during the 2021-2022 academic year, including the committee’s consideration of matters of shareholder responsibility in relation to investments by Harvard Management Company (HMC), particularly those that…

Danoff Dean of Harvard College Rakesh Khurana announced the appointment of Thomas Dunne as dean of students for the College. He will begin the role June 1. Dunne has served in the Office of the Dean of Undergraduate Students at Princeton University since 1999, most recently as deputy dean of students. At Harvard, he will…

Researchers from SHINE and the Human Flourishing Program have published a new paper in Sustainability exploring whether the importance assigned to well-being domains may be associated with actual self-reported well-being in these same domains. “Associations between the Importance of Well-Being Domains and the Subsequent Experience of Well-Being” was authored by Dorota Weziak-Bialowolska, Matthew T. Lee,…

Harvard University’s Advanced Leadership Initiative (ALI) announced the selection of its 2023 fellowship cohort, which is notable for its significant international representation and gender diversity.  The fellowship cohort is comprised of 43 participants and with women constituting over 58 percent of the group, the 2023 ALI cohort will have the highest percentage of female participants…

Seven Harvard affiliates were named recipients of the Schwarzman Scholarship in December. The eighth cohort of the prestigious award will attend Beijing’s Tsinghua University for a yearlong master’s degree program in global affairs. This year’s class of 151 candidates comes from 36 countries and 121 universities around the world. “I am excited by the eighth…

Aging has become a significant societal problem. While people are, on average, living longer, there has not been a concomitant increase in health span. In simple terms, this means that longer life is currently associated with a higher incidence of aging-exacerbated disorders. Among the most untreatable and chronic of these are diseases of the central…

Over the summer, eight students from Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health partnered with organizations and community members from Boston to Nairobi, Kenya, to learn about and help address locally identified public health problems. The students — members of the spring 2022 cohort of Community Engaged Learning Fellows — spoke about their work at…

The Growth Lab’s “Metroverse,” a narrative visualization platform that communicates urban economic composition and growth opportunities for cities, was recently honored at the 2022 Information is Beautiful Awards. “Metroverse” won the Silver award in the Business Analytics category. Based on more than a decade of research on how economies grow and diversify, the digital tool…

In a testimony on Dec. 15, before a panel examining policies toward Native children in the U.S., Joseph Kalt, Ford Foundation Professor of International Political Economy, emeritus, spoke about the importance that American Indian self-determination has played in helping spark a remarkable period of economic growth across a broad swath of Indian Country. Appearing before…

The American Mathematical Society (AMS) awarded Harvard Professor of Mathematics Peter Kronheimer and MIT Professor of Mathematics Tomasz Mrowka the 2023 Steele Prize for Seminal Contribution to Research for their 1993 paper “Gauge theory for embedded surfaces, I.” Kronheimer and Mrowka’s work introduced new notions and developed sophisticated technology that continues to play a central…

Two exceptional STEM students have been named to the inaugural cohort of Quad Fellows, the governments of Australia, India, Japan, and the United States jointly announced. Pallas Chou ’23 studies chemical and physical biology with a secondary in government. At Harvard, the senior works on the chemistry of enzymes that form the antibiotic negamycin. Chou,…

More people applied for rental assistance when sent de-stigmatizing messages in a study coauthored by a Harvard Kennedy School faculty member. Elizabeth Linos, the Emma Bloomberg Associate Professor of Public Policy and Management and faculty director of The People Lab, and Jessica Lasky-Fink, a Ph.D. student at the University of California, Berkeley, and research director…

At the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, many dental clinics faced temporary closure or capacity restrictions due to what was believed to be an increased risk associated with aerosol procedures. Because dental procedures require clinicians to be in close proximity to their patient’s mouth and nose, practicing dentistry was considered to be a high risk…

Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra alumni — from the Class of 1953 to the Class of 2022 —  gathered in Sanders Theatre on Nov. 12 to honor the memory of former HRO Music Director James Yannatos. Affectionately called “Dr. Y,” Yannatos conducted the orchestra from 1964 until his retirement in 2009. Yannatos passed away in 2011. A video…

Twenty-five mayors arrived at Harvard on Nov. 30, some just days after winning their elections, for a newly designed Program for New Mayors. Offered by the Bloomberg Center for Cities at Harvard University with Harvard Kennedy School’s Institute of Politics and the US Conference of Mayors, the program builds on a longstanding seminar for new…

In an effort to cultivate renewed culinary creativity, Harvard University Dining Services’ Managing Director Smitha Haneef laid out two fun challenges for her team to meet this fall semester. First, hoping to celebrate local, biodiverse produce, Haneef invited chefs to create small-bite daily dishes using farm-fresh ingredients. Called Delish!, the menu concept is served daily…

“25 Million Sparks: The Untold Story of Refugee Entrepreneurs,” the recent award-winning book by Andrew Leon Hanna, J.D. ’19, has been named to the Financial Times Best Books of 2022 list. The book, which was published by Cambridge University Press in May, centers on the stories of three Syrian women entrepreneurs living in the Za’atari…

The Afro-Latin American Research Institute at the Hutchins Center is partnering with five institutions to establish the University Consortium on Afro-Latin American Studies after receiving a $1.7 million grant from the Ford Foundation. The consortium, which will be led by Professor Alejandro de la Fuente, was announced at the commencement of the ALARI Second Continental…

The May 2023 premiere of a new revival of Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice’s rock opera “Evita” was announced today by American Repertory Theater at Harvard University. The A.R.T., in association with Shakespeare Theatre Company, will produce “Evita” May 14-July 16, 2023 at the Loeb Drama Center in Harvard Square. Sammi Cannold (Forbes’ 30…

A team of Harvard Project on American Indian Economic Development researchers at Harvard Kennedy School today released a research report documenting the costs to the Wabanaki Nations in Maine—Maliseet, Mi’kmaq, Passamaquoddy, and Penobscot—and to Maine’s non-tribal citizens of the state’s being screened off from federal policies of Indian self-determination and self-governance. For the last several decades,…

Five years from his life-changing football injury, Ben Abercrombie continues his journey through Harvard, among a community which fiercely supports one of its most inspiring members. Following his spinal cord injury, the Benson M. Abercrombie ’21 Fund was established by the Harvard Varsity Club (HVC) to assist the Abercrombie family with the significant medical and…

Julia Minson, a decision scientist at Harvard Kennedy School, has built her scholarly career on studying ways to reduce conflict between people who disagree with each other. She worries that partisan conflict now poses a growing threat to political life in the United States and beyond. That’s why Minson, an associate professor of public policy,…

Tamar Herzog, the Monroe Gutman Professor of Latin American Affairs and Radcliffe Alumnae Professor, has been awarded a Humboldt Research Award honoring lifelong achievement. The honor recognizes both Herzog’s research and teaching career which has spanned nearly three decades. Herzog, who began her professional life as a litigator, describes herself as a lifelong learner, combining…

Makeda Best, the Richard L. Menschel Curator of Photography at the Harvard Art Museums, recently received the prestigious Photography Catalogue of the Year award at the 2022 Paris Photo–Aperture PhotoBook Awards. Selected each year since 2012, the awards also recognize excellence in two other major categories of photobook publishing: First PhotoBook and PhotoBook of the…

In health, place matters. That’s why Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health’s Nancy Krieger and colleagues have updated and broadened a project aimed at training people in how to track and monitor socially related disparities having to do with where a person lives. Over the summer, Krieger, professor of social epidemiology, spearheaded an effort called the Public Health Disparities…

As part of a University-wide effort to support local Boston and Cambridge youth programming that builds college and career awareness, Harvard hosted middle and high school students through several campus programs this fall. In September, nearly 20 students from Massachusetts Rep. Chynah Tyler’s 7th Suffolk district visited Harvard’s campus for a tour and lunch. For…

The 100th annual George W. Gay Lecture in Medical Ethics, held on Nov. 8, honored and celebrated a years-long collaboration between the Harvard Medical School Center for Bioethics and the National Center for Bioethics in Research and Health Care at Tuskegee University. The lecturer was Rueben C. Warren, who directs that center at Tuskegee. The…

Healthier plant-based dietary patterns were associated with better environmental health, while less healthy plant-based dietary patterns, which are higher in foods like refined grains and sugar-sweetened beverages, required more cropland and fertilizer, according to a new study led by researchers at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Health and Brigham and Women’s Hospital. The findings also showed that red and processed meat had…