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  • Three students in 3 countries share in the ‘Postcards From Here’ series

    Jaidyn Probst ’23 of Redwood Falls, Minn., Maarten de Vries ’21 of Elten, Germany, and Luke Walker ’22 of Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago, share what life is like back home in the Postcard From Here series.

    Jaidyn Probst ’23 in field.
  • It’s back to the stacks

    100 library staff return to Harvard’s campus as physical collection access resumes.

    Stacks of books.
  • Same old labs but not

    Across Harvard’s campuses, non-COVID-19 work is resuming, labs are reopening, and scientists are settling into life in the “new normal.”

    Researcher viewed through lab door posted with safety signs.
  • Investing in a sustainable future

    Harvard awards $1 million in grants to projects that aim to accelerate progress toward a healthier, more sustainable world.

    People walking in the forest.
  • A room of one’s own

    Excerpt from “The Equivalents: A Story of Art, Female Friendship, and Liberation in the 1960s” by Maggie Doherty.

    Bunting fellows.
  • Recognition for some risky research

    The Star-Friedman Challenge is helping Harvard scientists during a time of great global uncertainty by boosting high-risk, high-impact research.

    Lab.
  • Another disappointment for MOOCs

    A new study looking at the efficacy of behavioral interventions for student involvement in online courses offers some suggestions on the road forward.

    Harvard EdX homepage.
  • Why they protest

    Harvard students talk about why they have demonstrated, their experience at protests, and their take on the moment.

    Glenn Foster holds up a sign saying "I can't breathe" in front of the Capitol.
  • ‘I was in Harvard but not of it’

    The W.E.B. Du Bois Graduate Society is a student organization of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences that aims to foster community and kinship among minority doctoral students.

    Jasmine Olivier, Shandra Jones, and Jeraul Mackey.
  • Faculty of Arts and Sciences will bring up to 40% of undergraduates to campus this fall

    Harvard’s Faculty of Arts and Sciences decides it will bring up to 40 percent of undergraduates, including all first-year students, to campus for the fall semester.

    Weeks Bridge to Harvard campus
  • The changing ecosystem of philanthropy

    Provost Alan Garber and Brian Lee, vice president of Harvard Alumni Affairs and Development, discuss the critical role of philanthropic support at Harvard and the principles behind Harvard’s gift policy.

    Harvard University gate leading to Science Center.
  • Serving up a new social order

    The curator of “Resetting the Table” at the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnography walks us through the exhibit, providing a narration that begins with “Once upon a time, Harvard students and faculty ate together, like a family.”

    Student waiters in Lowell House dining room. 1943
  • At the Harvard Ed Portal’s Mural Club, ingenuity first

    Instead of painting a mural together, this year students in the Harvard Ed Portal’s Mural Club produced individual works of art with virtual guidance from their instructors, local artist Chanel Thervil and Harvard undergraduate Gabi Maduro Salvarrey.

    Mural by Chanel Thervil.
  • Class of 2024 yield drops marginally

    With COVID-19 leading some to defer enrollment, the yield among students accepted to the Class of 2024 has dropped from 84 percent to 81 percent.

    Gate with ivy outside Standish Hall
  • In search of future Overseers

    A former Overseer and the executive director of the Harvard Alumni Association discuss the work of the HAA nominating committees.

    Philip Lovejoy and Tracy Palandjian.
  • Walsh details thinking behind redeployment of police funds

    Boston mayor discusses $12 million antiracism public health initiative at Harvard Chan School series.

    Boston Mayor Marty Walsh.
  • Making connections, building community

    John West, M.B.A. ’95, says teamwork, bridging differences, and consensus-building have shaped his approach to life — and will remain guiding principles when he begins his term as president of…

    John West.
  • ‘I developed a sense of the enormous, great luck in managing to survive, giving me a strong feeling that I had an obligation to pay it forward’

    As he prepares to retire after 52 years, Harvard Law School’s Laurence H. Tribe retraces his journey from awkward immigrant math whiz to leading constitutional law scholar and admired professor.

    Laurence Tribe.
  • From hands-on to virtual

    A group of local high school students worked on original astrophysics research projects through the Harvard-MIT Science Research Mentoring Program.

    Students at the CfA.
  • Breaking barriers

    Deborah Washington Brown, the first Black woman to earn an applied math Ph.D. from Harvard’s School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, passed away June 5.

    Deborah Brown at graduation.
  • Culture Lab Innovation Fund award winners announced

    This year’s winners of grants from the Harvard Culture Lab Innovation Fund range from an online race research and policy portal to mentoring technology called SySTEMatic.

    Harvard Yard
  • Three new professors named in math

    Harvard now has three tenured female professors in its Math Department

    Laura DeMarco and Mihnea Popa.
  • Art for justice’s sake

    Students activate, donate in movement to fight inequity, promote police reform.

    Zoom screen capture.
  • A symphony of seasons

    Gazette photographer Kris Snibbe captures the four seasons at Harvard, paying tribute to Vivaldi.

    Katherine Miclau ’20 studies in Lowell House courtyard.
  • Sherri Ann Charleston named chief diversity and inclusion officer

    Sherri Ann Charleston, a diversity expert and a lawyer and historian trained in race and constitutional issues, will become Harvard’s chief diversity and inclusion officer on Aug. 1.

    Sherri Ann Charleston.
  • Teaching to remain online for 2020-21

    Faculty of Arts and Sciences dean announces three potential scenarios for fall in an interim report to the community Monday that also confirmed online teaching will continue for the upcoming academic year.

    Harvard campus.
  • Nancy Coleman named new dean for Division of Continuing Education

    Nancy Coleman has been named the next dean of Harvard’s Division of Continuing Education, succeeding Huntington D. Lambert, who retired in December 2019.

    Nancy_Coleman
  • Rewarding innovation in inclusion

    John Silvanus Wilson, senior adviser and strategist to President Larry Bacow, announced the 2020‒2021 grants recipients of the Harvard Culture Lab Innovation Fund (HCLIF).

    Harvard students.
  • An Asylum in Allston

    Somerville nonprofit Artisan’s Asylum will move to Harvard property in Allston, where it will make medical gowns used as personal protective equipment.

    Sal Mancini.
  • Harvard reaches tentative agreement with graduate student union

    After long negotiations, Harvard University and the leadership of the Harvard Graduate Student Union United Auto Workers (HGSU-UAW), which represents more than 4,000 students, have agreed to the terms of a one-year contract.

    Harvard University Gate.