Campus & Community
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A blueprint for better conversations
After months of listening and learning, open inquiry co-chairs detail working group’s recommendations
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Celebrating 25th anniversary of Radcliffe Institute
Three Harvard presidents, two Nobel laureates gather to mark ‘unique legacy and remarkable impact’
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Scruggs describes ‘super surreal moment’ when she made Olympics history
Harvard fencer reflects on path to silver and gold — including facing a childhood idol — and what keeps her balanced, focused
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Why are you so offended?
It’s about status, not hurt feelings, philosopher argues
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Goodheart to step down as University secretary in May
Will continue to advise Garber and other campus leaders
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A snapshot of belonging at Harvard
University launches Pulse survey
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Harvard and MIT-led nonprofit to tackle longstanding inequities in education
Harvard, MIT, and edX announced a joint effort with education technology company 2U to extend online learning’s reach and impact across the world.
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Vice Provost Rick McCullough to become Florida State president
Vice Provost for Research Rick McCullough has been named president of Florida State University.
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University Police Department unveils workload- and crime-data dashboard
The Harvard University Police Department (HUPD) today announced the launch of a public workload- and crime-data dashboard, an initiative that grew out of a recent wide-ranging examination of the department and aims to further increase transparency and accountability.
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Giving back to the Greater Boston community
Students from Schools, centers, and programs across Harvard University volunteer their time, effort, and expertise to advance work being done by local government and community organizations across Greater Boston.
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Driven to provide health care
After COVID hiatus, Harvard’s Family Van gears up again.
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Her daughter about to be sold away, an enslaved mother carefully packs her a sack
In Tiya Miles’ “All That She Carried,” the book explores a tattered artifact to piece together a history of a family torn apart.
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RISE sets its sights on helping some of Cambridge’s neediest
Harvard and local philanthropic partners are helping fund the city of Cambridge’s new guaranteed-income pilot initiative to support community in need.
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Understanding the mayor’s office from the inside
Natalie Swartz has spent the past tumultuous year serving as the fifth Harvard Presidential City of Boston Fellow in the Boston Mayor’s Office.
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Paving the way
The inaugural group of Harvard’s Diversity, Inclusion, and Belonging fellows come from disciplines as diverse as the study of religion to Romance languages, English, and music.
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The future of teaching and learning
The Harvard Task Force on the Future of Teaching and Learning was created to explore how the University can build on learnings from remote teaching during the pandemic.
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Backing high-risk, high-reward
Seven Harvard professors have been awarded funds from the Star-Friedman Challenge for Promising Scientific Research.
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Glynn to retire as CEO of Harvard Allston Land Co.
Glynn was instrumental in advancing Harvard’s vision for the Enterprise Research Campus in Allston
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The serendipity of solitude
A breath of fresh air, meditation, or a yoga stretch during a “sun salutation” are simple ways to center yourself during challenging times.
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1,962 admitted to the Class of 2025
Nearly 85 percent of those admitted to the Class of 2025 say they will come to Harvard in the fall. Financial aid was a significant consideration in many of their decisions, according to William R. Fitzsimmons, dean of admissions.
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Global alumni community gather for first virtual annual meeting
The Harvard Alumni Association virtually convened the 151st Annual Meeting of the Harvard Alumni Association on Friday.
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‘I’ve never done work that I was not interested in. That is a very good reason to go on.’
Indian economist and philosopher, Amartya Sen, the 1998 Nobel laureate in economics, talks about his life as the son of distinguished Hindu academics and how the inequities all around him in colonial India of the 1930s would shape his intellectual destiny.
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New VP for human resources
Marking the culmination of a national search, Manuel Cuevas-Trisán has been appointed Harvard’s new vice president for human resources.
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Melinda French Gates receives Radcliffe Medal
The trailblazing work of Melinda French Gates, a philanthropist, advocate for the rights of women and girls, and fighter for gender equity, was the focus of Radcliffe Day.
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Looking at public health through an LTGBTQ+ lens
Austin Marshall, M.P.H. ’21, wants to be a physician-advocate for the LGBTQ+ community and care for patients as a doctor.
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Engineering change
After graduating Harvard, Juliet Nwagwu Ume-Ezeoke ’21 is off to study civil engineering at Stanford University, but first, she will squeeze in yet another experience in Africa.
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What the easing of Mass. COVID restrictions means for the University
The Gazette spoke with Giang Nguyen, Harvard University Health Services’ executive director, and Bill VanSchalkwyk, the University’s managing director of Environmental Health and Safety, to learn more about what Gov. Baker’s announcement means for the Harvard community.
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Harvard awards 7,640 degrees and certificates
At the ceremony honoring the Class of 2021, the University awarded a total of 7,640 degrees and certificates.
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Real scenes from an online graduation day
Capturing the moments of celebration as Harvard recognizes the Class of 2021.
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Finishing the work left undone in America
Ruth Simmons, one of the nation’s top higher education leaders and president of Prairie View A&M University, called on Harvard and its graduating Class of 2021 to fight to close the chasm of inequality that recent years have illustrated still exists in America.
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A year of strength and resilience
As life returns more to normal, there is so much to reflect on and to celebrate as we look back.
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Five alumni join Board of Overseers
Five alumni have been elected as new members of Harvard University’s Board of Overseers and six as directors of the Harvard Alumni Association (HAA).
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The double life of Truelian Lee
Concentrating in chemistry and English, Truelian Lee blended art with scientific problem-solving to bring chemistry to wider audiences.
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Finding a call to action in global poverty and blindness
Lawson Ung studied eye disease and the social determinants of where it’s most common
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Honorands awarded for achievements in law, art, education, science
Seven honorary degrees will be awarded to Frances Hamilton Arnold, Martin Baron, Arlie Russell Hochschild, Salman Amin Khan, Margaret Hilary Marshall, Anna Deveare Smith, and Sebastião Salgado.
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Blazing trails for others to follow
Eli Langley graduates as Harvard’s first Coushatta and the youngest Koasati speaker.