Tag: Asian

  • Nation & World

    Faculty diversity continues to grow

    Harvard continues to make progress in its goal to diversify its faculty, with numbers of women and minorities reaching record highs.

    4 minutes
    Cover of the annual report of the Office of Faculty Development and Diversity.
  • Nation & World

    Using humor to make the connection

    Before an Askwith Hall audience, stars from “Kim’s Convenience” and “Fresh Off the Boat” explored how the landscape is shifting for Asian stories, defying stereotype and allowing authentic identities.

    5 minutes
    Paul Sun-Hyung Lee
  • Nation & World

    More ways of defining diversity

    A study by a student at Harvard’s Graduate School of Education suggests that university staffs and students value having a diverse campus, but doubt that strict racial preferences are the right way to develop it.

    4 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Vivid scrolls from Japan tell timeless stories

    For nearly a decade, Melissa McCormick, John L. Loeb Associate Professor of the Humanities, has been absorbed in the study of elaborate works of fiction. The themes she encounters — love, temptation, even family drama — are timeless. The format — narrow horizontal scrolls of mulberry paper, with hand-painted images and columns of calligraphy —…

    5 minutes