Campus & Community

Data, and conversations about its management and fair use, took center stage at the ninth annual Harvard IT Summit last week, held on the campus of Harvard Business School.

In advance of Angela Merkel’s visit, the Gazette looked at a number of key episodes between Germany and Harvard throughout the 19th and 20th centuries.

Four Harvard deans discuss their role models and their work as top administrators.

The projects range from making one the world’s smallest flying machines to opening a new lane of research in the study of climate change to developing a groundbreaking technology that conducts electricity with 100 percent efficiency to an investigation of how environmental change affects bees.

Jane Pickering has been named the William and Muriel Seabury Howells Director of Harvard’s Peabody Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology. She will begin her five-year term July 1.

M.Div. candidate Aric Flemming is taking a year off to immerse himself in music, both spiritual and secular.

Sara Bobok returns repeatedly to her native Hungary, where she’ll next study sex trafficking, aiming to make an impact on the country’s young people.

One of Harvard’s rites of passage is to write a thesis. Students and administrators talk about the process, the requirements, and the ordeal of undertaking an independent project that is unlike any other in students’ College years.

Alice Hill will be the first Australian and the first Canadian to lead the HAA, as well as the first from the Asia Pacific region. She plans to bring those perspectives to the table as president.

While she was earning a master’s at HGSE, Nicole Johnson worked four jobs, was vice president of the HGSE Student Council, and won the Miss Massachusetts International Pageant.

In England, Rhodes Scholar Brittany Ellis will continue to promote collaboration between museums and communities in curatorial decision-making.

Harvard College senior Camille DeSisto’s love of the environment took her around the world to Madagascar’s tropical forests.

Kindergarten through fifth grade Boston Public School students become “Young Scientists” for a day through the Arnold Arboretum’s Field Study Experiences program.

Both graduating this May, the two Cat Zhangs weigh in on four years of being confused with each other and the respective legacies they leave behind.

La’Toya Princess Jackson’s thesis, “Black Swans Shattering the Glass Ceiling,” focuses on African American contributions to ballet.

Dalton Brunson’s biology studies have led him to labs, research, and successes that he hopes keep him ever mindful of his commitment to expanding health care in rural areas.

A new Houghton Library exhibit connects early celestial calculations to the Apollo 11 mission that put two American astronauts on the lunar surface 50 years ago. “Small Steps, Giant Leaps: Apollo 11 at Fifty” offers gems from Harvard’s collection of rare books and manuscripts as well as NASA items that were aboard the spaceship in July 1969.

Harvard re-installs plaque honoring students from the late 1930s who started a scholarship that helped 16 European refugees flee Nazi persecution and study at Harvard.

Schuyler Bailar ’19 is the first openly transgender swimmer in the National Collegiate Athletic Association and a member of the Harvard men’s swimming team.

Over seven years, Professor of Education Roberto Gonzales interviewed thousands of undocumented young people who qualified for deferred action from deportation under DACA, and found that for high achievers among them, community and family mentors made the difference.

At a naturalization ceremony at the Harvard Kennedy School, 43 men and women became American citizens.

In the past five years, the women’s squash team has racked up five straight national championships, four Ivy League titles, and three individual national championships, all while maintaining a 65-match unbeaten streak.

Nima Samimi, recipient of a degree in Middle Eastern Studies, is a jack of all trades and a master of at least a few, including academics, music, and social justice.

Denise-Marie Ordway, with a large family and impressive resumé, excels as Nieman Fellow, HGSE master’s candidate

Nearly 83 percent of students admitted to the Class of 2023 have chosen to matriculate at Harvard College. Here’s their demographic breakdown.

At a Meeting of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences on May 7, 2019, the Minute honoring the life and service of the late James Allan Davis, Professor of Sociology, Emeritus, was placed upon the records. Professor Davis devoted himself to building empirical foundations for social science, especially in survey and public opinion research.

At a Meeting of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences on May 7, 2019, the Minute honoring the life and service of the late Patrick Thaddeus, Robert Wheeler Willson Professor of Applied Astronomy, Emeritus, was placed upon the records. Professor Thaddeus was a founder of and long-time leader in the field of astrochemistry

Dean Claudine Gay named five members of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences as the newest Harvard College Professors.

Eleanor Lieberman ’19 won this year’s Harvard Student Employee of the Year award, but all 24 nominees were honored at an event on April 18.

A student-run emergency medical services organization at Harvard, Crimson CMS facilitates the training, certification, and volunteer service of EMTs.