Featured series 
Tag: Faculty
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Nation & World
‘I wanted to make a difference in America’
Robert Putnam’s ‘Bowling Alone’ sounded an alarm we still haven’t answered
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Nation & World
Lessons learned from being only man in class
Or how a gender-equality seminar sparked change for women in Côte d’Ivoire
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Arts & Culture
Scarier than ghosts: A nurse superfan and a spouse with secret rooms
Steven Pinker, Maria Tatar, other scholars recommend books for Halloween season
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Campus & Community
From the forest to a leaf
New Herbaria director studies plants via satellite and microscope for insights on changing planet
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Campus & Community
University cites careful planning, stewardship for solid financial position, endowment performance
Finance leaders note investments in key academic, community priorities
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Campus & Community
How to make the most of your first year at Harvard
Shop classes, avoid echo chambers, embrace the Red Line — and other faculty tips for new students
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Nation & World
How to help urban young people progress? Nurture hope.
Youth development specialist promotes holistic approach to healing, growth of individuals, communities amid poverty, drugs, trauma
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Arts & Culture
French officer rushes wife, young children out of Salonica as Nazis near
In novel rooted in family lore, Claire Messud trails three generations of family with Algerian roots, lives shaped by displacement, war, social and political upheaval
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Campus & Community
Why would a busy professor take time to reread a book?
They wade through stacks each year. But here are some that draw them back.
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Arts & Culture
Walking children through a garden of good and evil
Jamaica Kincaid’s new book presents history of colonialism, identity through plants that helped shape it
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Campus & Community
‘Be that voice for compassion, learning, understanding, and unity’
Burns and others deliver call to action – and empathy – at Class Day ceremonies
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Campus & Community
Jeff Lichtman named dean of science
Neuroscientist inspired by ‘great challenge’ of leading life, physical sciences division in era of rapidly growing knowledge
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Nation & World
Speaking to the moment
Tarek Masoud, organizer of Middle East Dialogues, wanted to show that Harvard could confront the tensions around Israel-Gaza without vitriol or shouting. So far, it’s worked.
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Campus & Community
Maria Ressa named 2024 Commencement speaker
Nobel Prize-winning defender of press freedom will deliver principal address
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Campus & Community
Calling it as he sees it
Broadcast legend Gus Johnson found ‘the real peace’ at Harvard
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Campus & Community
12 win Harvard Culture Lab awards to advance inclusion and belonging
Community-based projects will benefit University Schools and units
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Campus & Community
Opening conversation on more, better discourse
Summit, hosted by College, PEN America, gathers speakers, workshops as part of Harvard Dialogues initiative
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Campus & Community
Harvard University Housing establishes rents for 2024–2025
Increases will range from 0 to 8 percent
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Campus & Community
‘Harvard Dialogues’ taps power of respectful debate
A week of programming anchors an initiative that will help students, faculty, and others engage in candid conversations on tough topics
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Campus & Community
Long to step down as Ed School dean
Economist will return to teaching and research
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Campus & Community
Speaking his mind
Interim President Alan Garber on leadership transition, promoting dialogue, hopes for year ahead
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Campus & Community
Remembering biochemistry Professor Guido Guidotti
Guido Guidotti, Higgins Professor of Biochemistry, taught hundreds of students during more than 60 years of research and teaching. Guidotti died April 5 in Newton, Massachusetts, following a long battle with prostate cancer. He was 87.
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Campus & Community
Faculty of Arts and Sciences unveils anti-racism agenda
The dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences announced an anti-racism agenda prioritizing six areas of action.
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Campus & Community
New faculty: Jesse McCarthy
New English and African and African American Studies Professor Jesse McCarthy took a roundabout path to academia. Now he’s teaching James Baldwin and Henry James and showing students there are many ways to be successful.
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Campus & Community
New faculty: Lauren Williams
The Gazette sits down with Lauren Williams, the second woman to be tenured in Harvard’s Math Department and the Seaver Professor at the Radcliffe Institute.
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Campus & Community
A model faculty
Departing FAS Dean Michael Smith’s investment in world-class scholars is paying big dividends, colleagues say.
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Campus & Community
Policy on unrecognized single-gender social organizations to remain
Harvard President Drew Faust announced at a faculty meeting that the Harvard Corporation has voted to keep the policy on unrecognized single-gender social organizations in place.
