Tag: Office of the President

  • Arts & Culture

    The music that didn’t stop

    Wynton Marsalis and an all-star ensemble gave a capacity crowd at Sanders Theater a musical history of the roots of jazz in New Orleans.

  • Arts & Culture

    Marsalis to conclude lecture-performance series

    Wynton Marsalis will conclude his six-lecture series at Sanders Theatre on Jan. 30. Tickets, which are free, will be available for the Harvard community on Jan. 28 and the public on Jan. 29.

  • Campus & Community

    A welcome mat for veterans

    In what has become a Harvard tradition, President Drew Faust and guest Gen. Stanley McChrystal led a list of those welcoming new Harvard students who have military backgrounds.

  • Arts & Culture

    Oh, the humanities!

    Humanities programs are in trouble in universities across the world — but hope prevails.

  • Arts & Culture

    Listen up, says Marsalis

    Students in a Boston high school sacrificed some of their precious spring break to spend time with master trumpeter and jazz legend Wynton Marsalis.

  • Arts & Culture

    Jazz as conversation

    Artist and composer Wynton Marsalis returned to Sanders Theatre for his fourth lecture-performance at Harvard, an exploration of the strange alchemy of instinct, expertise, and empathy that jazz musicians need to “play and stay together.”

  • Campus & Community

    Marsalis returns to Sanders

    Wynton Marsalis is returning to Harvard to continue his two-year lecture series, “Hidden in Plain View: Meanings in American Music,” with a talk on improvisation at Sanders Theatre on April 17.

  • Arts & Culture

    Lincoln’s dimensions

    Screenwriter and playwright Tony Kushner sat down with President Drew Faust to dissect Abraham Lincoln’s legacy and talk history, politics, and writing after a Harvard-sponsored screening of his new biopic, “Lincoln.”

  • Campus & Community

    The university’s mission, reaffirmed

    As Harvard’s neighbor Boston College celebrates its 150th year, it’s important to reflect on the enduring tension between scholarship for social good and inquiry for its own sake, President Drew Faust said Oct. 10 as she received the college’s first Sesquicentennial Medal.

  • Campus & Community

    A welcome to the military

    In an annual fall tradition, Harvard rolls out the welcome mat for its new students and fellows who are veterans or who are still in the service.

  • Campus & Community

    A president next door

    Harvard President Drew Faust — with a mischievous gift in tow — helped the Massachusetts Institute of Technology welcome its new president, L. Rafael Reif, at his inauguration on Friday.

  • Nation & World

    Kissinger looks back

    Henry Kissinger has spent more than half a century thinking about and shaping foreign policy. At Sanders Theatre on Wednesday, the former Secretary of State reflected on the “hobby that became my profession.”

  • Arts & Culture

    Harvard and slavery

    A student research project and a resulting booklet and website bring to light some troubling connections to the College in the 18th and 19th centuries.

  • Arts & Culture

    On the Silk Road again

    The Silk Road Ensemble, a group of musicians from around the world led by famed cellist Yo-Yo Ma, was at Harvard for a weeklong residency, helping students to compose, playing with undergraduates, exploring the link between business and the arts, and discussing arts and education.

  • Campus & Community

    Remembering 9/11

    Harvard plans services, vigils, panels to draw meaning from 10th anniversary of 9/11 tragedy.

  • Campus & Community

    A picnic in the Yard

    Harvard hosts hundreds of senior elderly residents from Cambridge at the 35th Annual Senior Picnic at Tercentenary Theatre.