Tag: Alumni

  • 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

    1–2 minutes
  • 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

    1–2 minutes
  • 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

    1–2 minutes
  • 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.

    5–8 minutes
  • 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.

    2–3 minutes
  • 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.

    5–7 minutes
  • 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.

    4–6 minutes
  • 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.

    5–7 minutes
  • 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.

    1–2 minutes
  • Campus & Community

    Birth of an actor

    Tommy Lee Jones discusses his first glimpse of the foreign turf of New England, and a hard choice he had to make on arriving: Should he focus on football or acting?

    1–2 minutes
  • 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.

    3–4 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Alums share big ideas

    Volunteerism — not whether, but how best to give back — was at the forefront of the “Alumni Think Big” conference session on Saturday, as eight Harvard graduates and one visiting practitioner presented their “Big Ideas That Will Change the World” at a Wintersession forum.

    5–7 minutes
  • 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.

    2–4 minutes
  • 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.

    4–7 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Harvard goes to Washington

    Tuesday night’s national elections sent a number of Harvard alumni and affiliates off to Washington.

    1–2 minutes
  • 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.

    1–2 minutes
  • 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.

    1–2 minutes
  • 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.

    13–19 minutes
  • 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.

    2–3 minutes
  • Campus & Community

    A time was had by all

    A fond look back at the memorable events of Harvard’s 375th year.

    13–20 minutes
  • 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.

    5–8 minutes
  • 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.

    6–9 minutes
  • 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.

    1–2 minutes
  • 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.

    3–4 minutes
  • 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.

    2–3 minutes
  • 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.

    12–17 minutes
  • 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.

    8–13 minutes
  • Campus & Community

    Student named Gates Scholar

    Harvard Divinity School student Zachary Guiliano has been named a 2012 Gates Cambridge Scholar.

    1–2 minutes
  • 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.

    3–5 minutes
  • 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.

    1–2 minutes