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  • A novel born in Quincy House

    Debut author and Harvard affiliate Elizabeth Ames authored a college novel inspired by Harvard students.

    Elizabeth Ames
  • Growing beyond Yardfest

    Since 2017, the College Events Board has grown from 10 sponsored events a year to more than 30, bringing a community spirit to student life on campus.

    Taste of the Islands food bar with students lining yo
  • Out of Town out of time

    The shuttering of Out of Town News in Harvard Square marks the end of an era.

    Emptied newspaper and magazine stands in Out of Town News.
  • Assessing Harvard’s culture

    The organizers of Harvard’s recent Pilot Pulse Survey discuss respondents’ answers across campus on issues of inclusion and belonging.

    John Silvanus Wilson and Andrew Ho pictured at Smith Campus Center.
  • Films that go bump in the night

    As All Hallows’ Eve approaches, the Gazette checks in with members of the Harvard community to hear which films they love to fear.

    Scene from "Carnival of Souls."
  • Frames of mind: A window onto Harvard’s campus

    A window Into Harvard’s campus through the lens of a camera.

    Student walking up stairway with colorful flags hanging from ceiling.
  • A fairly bright fiscal 2019

    Harvard closed the 2019 fiscal year last June 30 with a surplus. Harvard officials discuss the details of how the University got there.

    Vice President for Finance Thomas Hollister in the Smith Center
  • Looking ahead, informed by where he’s been

    Hailing from Montana, Joe Gone is an interdisciplinary social scientist with both theoretical and applied interests and member of the Aaniiih-Gros Ventre tribe. He has spent the last 25 years working with indigenous communities to rethink community-based mental health services, and to harness traditional culture and spirituality for advancing indigenous well-being.

    Joseph P. Gone on campus
  • How I spent my summer serving others

    Over the past summer, 15 Harvard students helped communities around the country as part of the Presidential Public Service Fellowship (PPSF). President Larry Bacow honored them at a luncheon this month.

    Luncheon with students
  • Reforming the criminal justice system

    In a discussion at Harvard’s Memorial Church, Atlanta-based preacher Raphael G. Warnock called mass incarceration “a scandal on the soul of America,” and dared his listeners to “imagine a different future.”

    Raphael G. Warnock
  • Blades of glory

    Rowing blades feature designs, most often inspired by shields and mascots, distinctive to each School and House at Harvard.

  • Athletics director to retire at end of academic year

    Bob Scalise, the John D. Nichols ’53 Family Director of Athletics, says he will retire at the end of the academic year.

    Athletics director Bob Scalise
  • Exploring services for students

    A network of available resources on campus includes groups to help with academic, social, and emotional challenges.

    Barbara Lewis, Catherine Shapiro, and Sindhu Revuluri
  • Michael Kremer wins Nobel in economics

    Harvard’s Michael Kremer, the Gates Professor of Developing Societies, wins 2019 Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel.

  • The Harvard band at 100

    To mark its 100th anniversary, the Harvard University Band will take to the field during halftime at the Cornell game on Saturday, swelling to 400 performers as alumni join the student members.

  • New innovation fund launches

    The Office of Diversity, Inclusion, and Belonging is announcing the official launch of the Harvard Culture Lab Innovation Fund (HCLIF), which will provide members of the Harvard community with competitive grants to pursue projects that use technology to advance diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging.

    Students in Sever Hall
  • New faculty: Yvette J. Jackson

    Yvette J. Jackson, who joined Harvard as an assistant professor in the Department of Music this fall, is a composer of electroacoustic, chamber, and orchestral music, with a focus on radio operas and immersive narrative soundscape productions.

    Yvette Jackson
  • The magic of the unexpected

    William G. Kaelin Jr., the Sidney Farber Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School and the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, is one of three winners of the 2019 Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine for discovering how cells sense and adapt to changes in oxygen availability, a process critical for survival.

    William G. Kaelin Jr. talks on phone after winning Nobel.
  • The Muppets come to Harvard

    The furry characters of “Sesame Street” came to Harvard’s Sanders Theater to partake in a special celebration that marked the lasting relationship between the College and the PBS children’s television series.

    Big Bird and Larry Bacow
  • Worldwide Week spotlights Harvard’s global presence

    Engaging the World: Harvard College International Opportunities Fair highlights the work being done worldwide by Harvard’s Schools, departments, research centers, faculty, and students.

    Dancers
  • Mary Margaret Steedly, 71

    At a Meeting of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences on October 1, 2019, the Minute honoring the life and service of the late Mary Margaret Steedly, Professor of Anthropology, was placed upon the records. Professor Steedly was one of the great ethnographers of Indonesia.

  • Nicolau Sevcenko, 61

    At a Meeting of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences on Oct. 1, 2019, the Minute honoring the life and service of the late Nicolau Sevcenko, professor of romance languages and literatures, was placed upon the records. Professor Sevcenko was one of Brazil’s foremost urban and cultural historians.

  • Promising projects

    Sixteen Harvard scientists are among the 93 researchers who have been selected to receive grants through the National Institutes of Health’s High-Risk, High-Reward program, which funds innovative research designed to address major challenges in biomedical science.

    Beakers and lab equipment
  • From Mass. Ave. to ‘Sesame Street’

    An interview with Joe Blatt, senior lecturer at the Graduate School of Education, on the long and lasting partnership between Harvard and Sesame Street, the acclaimed children’s television program, on the eve of its 50th anniversary.

    Blatt with his muppet
  • Good cop, nice cop

    Depending on whom you ask, the most photographed Harvard institution is either the John Harvard Statue, Massachusetts Hall, or Harvard University Police Department Officer Charles Marren. “I might be more…

  • Dean of continuing education set to retire

    Huntington D. Lambert, dean of Harvard’s Division of Continuing Education, to retire at the end of this year.

    Huntington D. Lambert
  • Harvard’s Mitrovica awarded MacArthur ‘genius grant’

    Jerry X. Mitrovica, the Frank Baird Jr. Professor of Science in the Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences at Harvard, was awarded a “genius grant” by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation.

    Jerry Mitrovica, MacArthur genius grant recipient
  • Why Harvard football still matters

    Continuity, heritage, and ritual are central to the enduring magnetism and mystique of Harvard football.

    Harvard Stadium
  • Harvard to cut food-related greenhouse gas emissions

    Harvard signs Cool Food Pledge, vows to cut food-related greenhouse gas emissions by 25 percent by 2030.

    Healthy food
  • When Gore was Widener

    Before Widener, there was Gore Hall, an imposing Gothic Revival-style building once “regarded with pride as the chief distinction of the College and of the city.”

    Sepia image of exterior of Gore Hall.