Tag: Harvard College
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Arts & Culture
Jameela Jamil is in a good place
Actress and activist Jameela Jamil talks cancel culture, fatphobia, and diversity in Hollywood in a discussion with Harvard students.
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Campus & Community
University to begin transition to unobserved COVID-19 testing
After approval from the FDA, Harvard University will begin to transition to unobserved, self-administered COVID-19 screening tests for all individuals authorized to live or be on campus as part of continued efforts to monitor and control the virus.
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Nation & World
Growing returns
Fields of grain are returning to Maine, this time as part of a thriving 21st-century industry.
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Nation & World
Waves of progress
A. R. Siders is a social scientist and a lawyer, advocating for audacious climate adaptation that’s fair for everyone.
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Campus & Community
Making a place for herself
Harvard College 2020 graduate Mahlet Shiferaw talks about briefly feeling lost and then regaining her confidence as a woman of color studying astrophysics.
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Campus & Community
Sibling on a mission
Harvard grad Nathan Grant ’20 helps advocate for people with disabilities, and the people who support them.
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Campus & Community
In tune with a program of dual study
Avanti Nagral decided to try the new dual-degree program and earned a bachelor of arts degree from Harvard while getting her master’s from Berklee College of Music — all in five years.
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Campus & Community
A drive that’s taken her around the world
Lessons learned from Rewan Abdelwahab’s four trips to five countries during her time at Harvard.
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Campus & Community
Studying COVID-19 in real time
How some Harvard professors are integrating the coronavirus crisis into their curricula.
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Campus & Community
College adopts grading policy changes for spring term
In response to the coronavirus pandemic, Harvard College will adopt an Emergency Satisfactory/Emergency Unsatisfactory (SEM/UEM) grading policy for the spring semester.
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Campus & Community
It was a week like no other
Harvard photographer Rose Lincoln returned to campus this past weekend to capture the thoughts and images of students as they readied themselves to return home.
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Campus & Community
895 admitted under early action program
Harvard accepted 895 students to the Class of 2024 today from a pool of 6,424 who applied under the early action program.
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Arts & Culture
Speak, memory
At the Radcliffe Institute, Alaskan Inupiaq poet and Harvard alum Joan Naviyuk Kane keeps her language and culture alive through her art and her family.
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Nation & World
Home improvements
Harvard College student Jason Lam spent the summer after high school promoting affordable housing in his home state of New Jersey, and ended up finding a career path.
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Arts & Culture
C.A.S.T.ing call
Harvard College student Karalyn Joseph is combining her passion for theater and her love of community to nurture performers of all abilities.
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Campus & Community
Growing beyond Yardfest
Since 2017, the College Events Board has grown from 10 sponsored events a year to more than 30, bringing a community spirit to student life on campus.
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Nation & World
Change is collective
Sarah Lockridge-Steckel is co-founder and CEO of The Collective, a nonprofit organization that provides pathways to opportunities for young adults through partnerships with education institutions and employers in her hometown of Memphis, Tennessee.
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Nation & World
Houston, we have a solution
Anne Sung is a native of Houston and a graduate of the city’s public schools. Since 2016 she has served as a trustee of the Houston Independent School District. She is also a public school educator, advocate, and strategist.
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Nation & World
Seeds of change
Benet Magnuson is a native Kansan and the executive director of Kansas Appleseed. His career has been dedicated to nonprofit advocacy on behalf of impoverished and excluded communities.
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Nation & World
Growing home
Izzy Goodchild-Michelman is a South Carolina native who spent six weeks working for Hub City Urban Farm in Spartanburg, S.C., before she started at Harvard. She helped write grants and revamped the educational Seed to Table curriculum that’s used with elementary and middle school students.
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Campus & Community
Growing connections
For her Service Starts with Summer project, South Carolina native Izzy Goodchild-Michelman ’23 spent six weeks working on a farm, revamping the educational Seed to Table curriculum that serves elementary and middle-school students.
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Campus & Community
Their favorite things
The Gazette asks first-year students to name the most cherished thing in their suitcases.
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Campus & Community
Making themselves at home in Harvard Yard
No blood, but some sweat and a few tears were on display as first-years moved into their Harvard Yard dorms Tuesday.
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Campus & Community
Singing in the rain
Students from a first-year think tank led a successful effort to plant a pair of rain gardens on campus.
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Campus & Community
In search of Quentin Compson
A group of William Faulkner fans visited a plaque on the Anderson Bridge honoring his best-known character.
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Campus & Community
Life in the fast lane
Aurora Straus, a race-car driver and Harvard first-year, is a role model for girls but still encounters sexism around the track.