The two-day “Vision & Justice” conference at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study brought together a wide range of scholars and artists for performances and discussions considering the role of the arts in understanding the nexus of art, race, and justice.
The Rev. Jonathan Walton will step down from his role as Plummer Professor of Christian Morals and Pusey Minister of the Memorial Church in order to become dean of Wake Forest University School of Divinity. Walton, who assumed leadership of the church in 2012, will leave this summer.
Harvard College’s incoming class will have a chance to participate in the inaugural Service Starts with Summer Program (3SP), an initiative meant to encourage students to engage in public service in their hometowns.
Harvard faculty and administrators discussed racism, sexism, LGBTQ rights, politics, and poverty at the FAS Diversity Conference “A Decade of Dialogue.”
Genesis De Los Santos grew up in Dorchester and credits her community’s support for her unlikely journey from a neighborhood school to a private middle school academy to an elite high school and then to Harvard.
The living walls at the Richard A. and Susan F. Smith Campus Center — eight organic interior designs made of climbing, creeping arms of trees and blocks of ferns and other tropical plants —are a welcome addition to Harvard’s newly configured social hub year-round.
Economist Raj Chetty and sociologist Michèle Lamont of Harvard are among the Andrew Carnegie Fellows named this year by the Carnegie Corporation of New York. Also known as the “Brainy Award,” the fellowship grants up to $200,000 to each of 32 researchers writing and publishing in the humanities and social sciences.
Eight students from Highline High School in Burien, Wash., recently spent five days in Boston and Cambridge visiting Harvard and MIT as part of the Harvard Club of Seattle Crimson Achievement Program.
The Harvard Alumni Association has announced that Teresita Alvarez-Bjelland ’76, M.B.A. ’79, Dan H. Fenn Jr. ’44, A.M. ’72, and Tamara Elliott Rogers ’74 will receive the 2019 Harvard Medal.
Success stories from Harvard’s Bridge Program, which pairs student tutors with immigrant employees to ease the transition to a new culture, are celebrated.
New English and African and African American Studies Professor Jesse McCarthy took a roundabout path to academia. Now he’s teaching James Baldwin and Henry James and showing students there are many ways to be successful.
Sarah Whiting, former dean of architecture at Rice University, returns to Harvard, where she taught early in her career, as dean of the Graduate School of Design.
Twenty would-be companies in four categories have been named finalists in the President’s Innovation Challenge, an annual “call to action, innovation, and entrepreneurship” at Harvard.
Harvard students Noah Golowich and Alex Atanasov have been selected to receive the prestigious Hertz Fellowship, joining 199 previous Harvard students who have received the honor since 1964.
Harvard’s new Sustainable Healthful Food Standards, announced today, will challenge University food service to increase healthy options while also considering how the food is produced, taking into account sustainability, pesticide and fertilizer use, food-workers’ conditions, and animal welfare.
The 13th annual Celebration of Scholarship dinner brought together brought together students who have benefited from financial aid and some of the many donors who support the program.
The occupation of University Hall in April 1969 and the strike that followed it left its mark on Harvard’s psyche. A daylong event Friday commemorates the 50th anniversary and brings today’s student activists into the conversation.
On a recent afternoon, the Gazette sat down with Susan Carney, current president of the Board of Overseers, and Michael Brown, president-elect for 2019-20, to talk about the Overseers’ role, their…
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