Tag: Harvard History
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Campus & Community
Presidential task forces announce listening sessions
Task forces to combat antisemitism and anti-Muslim and anti-Arab bias will hear from Harvard College students, with more engagement planned across the University
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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
7 chosen for Motsepe Presidential Research Fund award
Funds will support projects that advance challenges and opportunities facing Africa
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Campus & Community
Garber emphasizes ‘critical collaboration’ in U.K. visit
Interim president meets with scholars and alumni in first international trip
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Campus & Community
Sustainability programs’ focus will expand at Harvard Extension
New director brings global perspective as students address international concerns
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Campus & Community
Professors, mentors, Cherokee Scholars
Harvard colloquium unites Indigenous academics to deepen each other’s work
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Campus & Community
Living in Leverett next year? That’s what the carrot said.
Warm (if loud) emotions echo across Yard for Housing Day 2024
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Campus & Community
Harvard Griffin GSAS applications rise nearly 16% over past three years
25,240 applicant pool for master’s, Ph.D. programs
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Campus & Community
What makes a House a home
HoCo chairs share residential life’s quirks, points of pride
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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
Ted Donato crosses 300-win marker, creeping up on all-time record
Former standout Crimson, NHL player, now in 20th year as head coach, says success in game is all about character
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Campus & Community
Harvard Law School Dean John Manning named interim provost
John Goldberg to serve as interim dean
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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
University names task force members in efforts to combat antisemitism, anti-Arab and anti-Muslim bias
‘We must do much more to bridge the fissures that have weakened our sense of community’
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Campus & Community
Overseer, HAA elected director elections ballot set
Candidates as they will appear on the ballot
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Campus & Community
Making Crimson history at Super Bowl
Appearance of Chiefs’ Jones, 49ers’ Juszczyk will mark 1st time there will be an alum on both sides of pro football’s biggest game
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Arts & Culture
What’s it like to watch ‘Maestro’ as Leonard Bernstein’s daughter? ‘Surreal.’
Alum recalls dad’s love of Harvard, learning as biopic draws Oscar noms
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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
How hip-hop got to Harvard
Colleagues, artists, friends gather to celebrate Marcyliena Morgan, founding director of University’s Archive & Research Institute
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Campus & Community
University to offer travel funding for Tribes to boost repatriation efforts
Native American Program planning move to new home
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Campus & Community
‘A moment of possibility’
University Archives marks inauguration of Claudine Gay with two special displays.
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Nation & World
Saying their names
Scholars involved in Legacy of Slavery Initiative discuss findings, remind that each of enslaved was “real person … with dreams, with pain.”
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Arts & Culture
Harvard’s religious past
A Harvard Divinity School lecturer says that to understand where the University is, it’s important to see where it’s been.
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Campus & Community
Futuristic PIVOT app serves up Harvard history
Harvard University formally launched its official interactive online tour app last week. PIVOTtheWorld is a free app that allows visitors to visually experience the history of Harvard with a swipe — or pivot — of their smart phone.
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Campus & Community
The sound of victory
A joyous peal of bells will ring throughout Cambridge today. In celebration of the city of Cambridge and of the country’s oldest university — and of our earlier history when…
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Nation & World
Reflections on the Marshall Plan
Former U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger reflects on predecessor George C. Marshall’s Commencement address at Harvard in 1947, which extended America’s hand to a battered Europe and, in so doing, helped to create a stable postwar order and an inclusive, long-term U.S. foreign policy.
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Campus & Community
My lasting Harvard memory
Samantha Noh ’15 shares her memorable Harvard moment, connecting to a distant student past as part of the Yard archaeology digs .