Featured series 
Tag: Staff
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Campus & Community
Food for thought
Harvard graduate and Food Literacy Project administrator Dara Olmsted loves working with food and helping others connect to the environmental and nutritional implications of what they eat.
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Campus & Community
Keeping students in the loop
Getting Harvard graduate students to connect with each other and the vibrant offerings at Dudley House keeps its longtime administrator Susan Zawalich, a tap dancer with a love for Godzilla and toys, busy.
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Campus & Community
Open enrollment to begin Oct. 28
Open enrollment for Harvard employees begins Oct. 28 and runs through Nov. 12.
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Campus & Community
25 years of service
Viva Fisher and Clif Colby are two of dozens of Harvard staff and faculty being honored at the 56th annual recognition ceremony.
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Campus & Community
Baby, you can drive my Zipcar
New transportation options for Harvard affiliates are energy- and cost-efficient, and can be fun, too.
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Campus & Community
They save horses, don’t they?
A meeting with a wild stallion set Harvard curator Castle McLaughlin on a journey involving an endangered horse breed and a complex exhibition.
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Campus & Community
Harvard in stitches
Knitting’s popularity continues to grow — even at Harvard, where at least 20 informal knitting circles meet once a week.
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Campus & Community
Strong finish
More than 100 Harvard undergraduates, graduate students, faculty, and staff ran in the annual Brian J. Honan 5K on Sept. 12.
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Campus & Community
Crossing that bridge
On Sept. 14, Kalan Chang was sworn in as an American citizen, thanks in part to Harvard’s Bridge to Learning and Literacy program, which also connected him with an internship at the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies.
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Campus & Community
Collecting race, ethnicity data
In compliance with new government regulations, Harvard is required to collect ethnicity information from faculty and staff. In addition, Harvard employees will have an opportunity to voluntarily self-identify their veteran status.
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Campus & Community
Hard science, soft verse
Ron Spalletta, whose first poem has just been published, is a clerkship manager at Harvard Medical School.
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Campus & Community
Staff art is focus at Radcliffe Institute
This time, the Radcliffe art show at Byerly Hall is by staff members, and will be on display through the summer.
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Campus & Community
The gym unlocker
Ed Kelley, who has worked at Harvard since 1959, is still going strong at age 78, opening the Malkin and Hemenway gyms most mornings, greeting all who arrive.
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Campus & Community
Guardian of the House
Quincy House security guard Paul Barksdale doubles as a friend, confidante, and adviser to undergraduates.
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Campus & Community
Giving back
Marie Trottier handles accessibility issues at Harvard for the disabled, but she’s also involved in establishing a hospice, and acts on the side.
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Campus & Community
Not afraid to switch focus
IT technician Jeff Mayes tries and masters new fields, from computers to photography.
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Campus & Community
Harvard Staff Artists Community to host first meeting on Feb. 24
The Harvard Staff Artists Community (HSAC) invites all staff artists to its first meeting on Feb. 24 from noon to 1 p.m. at Area 1 in the Gutman Library conference center.
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Campus & Community
Thompson wins writing grant
Harvard Review Editor Christina Thompson wins creative-writing fellowship to research her book project on how the Polynesians came to settle the Pacific region.
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Campus & Community
Bruno, Hierl receive Carol Ishimoto Award for Distinguished Service
Thomas Bruno, head of resource sharing at Widener Library, and Sebastian Hierl, librarian for Western Europe, have been named the winners of the 2009 Carol Ishimoto Award for Distinguished Service in the Harvard College Library (HCL).
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Campus & Community
Coming and going at Harvard
Kris Locke: The woman who works to keep Harvard’s commuters out of traffic jams and in the green zone.
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Campus & Community
Food for thought, and testing
Health and safety ninja Valerie Nelson makes sure campus meals are safe.
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Campus & Community
The piano man
Austin Grimes is one of four technicians who travel across Harvard’s campus, keeping its 200 pianos in tune.
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Campus & Community
Rock of ages
Anderson Lab manager Lenny Solomon is retiring in December after more than three decades helping guide people and projects.
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Campus & Community
Bringing plants, technology together
Donna Tremonte of the Harvard Herbaria loves plants so much that she travels to far-flung locales like Africa and Venezuela to study them. But that’s just part of her job.
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Campus & Community
Putt, putt, putting green to work
Every day and all year round, Adams House dining hall general manager David A. Seley commutes to Harvard on a moped — a lesson in green transportation that he hopes engenders thought and promotes action.
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Campus & Community
Greening the meaning of bottom line
Christine Benoit, an expert on buying just enough and from the right places, brings her ethic of green living to the Harvard procurement process.
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Campus & Community
Community Gifts raises money for 400-plus charities
The annual Community Gifts Through Harvard campaign has raised more than $600,000 via personal contributions from Harvard faculty, staff, and retirees. Over 400 charities, most in Massachusetts, were recipients of these funds.
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Campus & Community
University offers staff a bridge to somewhere
Melani Bizarria cries when she talks about Harvard’s Bridge to Learning and Literacy Program. “I need to say thank you so much for the opportunity,” says Bizarria after a recent English class, her eyes welling up with tears. “I’m trying to do my best, but I don’t have words to explain my feelings. I am…
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Campus & Community
Child-care programs, aid to continue at Harvard
Harvard University will continue a number of programs designed to help meet specific child care needs at the University. In 2006, the Task Force on Women Faculty and the Task Force on Women in Science and Engineering issued a final report that pointed to the need for increased University support for child care. Subsequently, several…
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Campus & Community
Voluntary early retirement offered
Harvard is offering an early retirement incentive package to staff across the University as one of many steps toward managing the challenges of the economic downturn.