Tag: Alumni
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Campus & Community
Hopi and Niroshi | From My House to Our Harvard
Harvard faculty encourage creative learning by helping students develop one-of-a-kind courses and concentrations. From My House to Our Harvard | 2012 FAS Film
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Campus & Community
A Little Idea | From My House to Our Harvard
Harvard students turn little ideas into big solutions every day. From My House to Our Harvard | 2012 FAS Film
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Campus & Community
Our Student-Athletes | From My House to Our Harvard
Harvard’s student-athletes represent excellence, on and off the field. From My House to Our Harvard | 2012 FAS Film
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Nation & World
Cultivating community in Shanghai
Kate McFarlin, president of the Harvard Club of Shanghai, wears her dual enthusiasms for Harvard and China on her sleeve.

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Campus & Community
Soledad O’Brien Class Day speaker
Soledad O’Brien, a CNN special correspondent, will speak to graduating seniors on Senior Class Day, held in Tercentenary Theatre.

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Nation & World
Holistically Crimson
Shaw Chen, treasurer of the Harvard Club of Shanghai, learned a lot from the College’s East Asian studies classes, but got plenty of experience outside the classroom as well.
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Campus & Community
Calvert Watkins dies at 80
Calvert Watkins, the Victor S. Thomas Professor of Linguistics and the Classics, emeritus, died March 20 at the age of 80.

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Nation & World
Creator of skyscrapers
Harvard College and Graduate School of Design alumnus Paul Tange is changing skylines across Asia through the work of his Tokyo-based architecture firm, Tange Associates.

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Nation & World
China’s stability during war, revolution, and unrest
Daniel Koss, a doctoral student in Harvard’s Government Department, has spent nearly a year in China, studying how such a large, diverse nation could remain intact through decades of warfare, revolution, and unrest, and emerge to wield growing influence on the global stage.
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Arts & Culture
Matt Damon to receive Arts Medal
Actor, writer, producer, and humanitarian Matt Damon is the recipient of the 2013 Harvard Arts Medal, which will be awarded by Harvard President Drew Faust at a ceremony on April 25 at 4 p.m. at Sanders Theatre.

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Campus & Community
Charles ‘Henry’ Foster dies at 85
Charles H.W. “Henry” Foster, a 20-year associate of the Harvard Forest, a Harvard College alumnus, and for decades one of the nation’s leading environmental policy experts, died of cancer on Oct. 4 at the age of 85 in Needham, Mass.

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Campus & Community
Deans announce new challenge
Thirteen deans from Schools across Harvard today announced $150,000 in new entrepreneurship challenges, expanding Harvard support for student innovation and cross-School collaborations with broad social and cultural impact.

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Campus & Community
Alumni receive Hiram Hunn Award
Alumni active in schools committee work have been honored with the annual Hiram Hunn Award by the Harvard Admissions Office.

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Campus & Community
Harvard Medalists 2012
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.
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Campus & Community
Odes to joy
Harvard Gazette staff writers covered the campus to capture snapshots of Harvard’s 361st Commencement, on a picture-perfect day.

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Campus & Community
Making a difference
The chance to make a difference — in Cambridge and beyond — by giving to Harvard appeals widely to alumni across class years.
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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.

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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.

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Campus & Community
Biostatistics honors Begg
Harvard’s Department of Biostatistics announced that Melissa D. Begg will be the first recipient of the newly established Lagakos Distinguished Alumni Award.
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Campus & Community
Alumni’s lives are in her hands
As an editor of Harvard’s hallowed Red Books and obituary writer for Harvard Magazine, Deborah Smullyan finds the beauty and wisdom in a parade of graduates’ retrospectives.

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Campus & Community
Matthews, Silverman are Scientists of the Year
The Harvard Foundation will present the 2012 Scientist of the Year Award to Jessica O. Matthews ’10 and Julia Silverman ’10, co-founders of Uncharted Play Inc. and inventors of SOCCKET, at this year’s annual Albert Einstein Science Conference.

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Campus & Community
Pulling together for a better Harvard
President of the Harvard Board of Overseers Leila Fawaz and Senior Fellow of the Harvard Corporation Robert Reischauer sat down with the Gazette recently to discuss the University’s governance, the interplay between the University’s two governing boards, and the experience of serving.

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Campus & Community
Eyes on the future
Harvard’s 30-member Board of Overseers works to ensure Harvard’s tradition of excellence is carried into the future.

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Campus & Community
Student named Gates Scholar
Harvard Divinity School student Zachary Guiliano has been named a 2012 Gates Cambridge Scholar.
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Nation & World
India, front and center
Harvard is increasing its engagement in India and surrounding South Asian nations in an effort to better understand a part of the world that is growing in global importance. Harvard President Drew Faust visits India this month.

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Campus & Community
HAA to open April 1 election
This spring, alumni can vote for a new group of Harvard Overseers and elected directors for the Harvard Alumni Association board.



