Campus & Community

Helena Buonanno Foulkes, a leader in consumer health care and retail, has been elected president of Harvard University’s Board of Overseers for the 2021-22 academic year. P. Lindsay Chase-Lansdale, a developmental psychologist and former vice provost for academics at Northwestern University, will be vice chair of the board’s executive committee.

The pandemic sent Jessica Miller ’21 home to West Virginia, where she found herself coping with remote classes while also helping her community through her work as an EMT. It helped her stay connected, she says.

The American Academy of Arts & Sciences announced its newest members, including 10 from the Harvard community.

Nine research teams will share $1 million in the seventh round of Climate Change Solutions Fund awards for proposals that create critical knowledge, propel novel ideas, and lead progress toward solutions that can be applied at Harvard and around the world.

From environmental justice to environmental litigation, Harvard students shared their passion for the natural world and their designs on the fight for its future.

In Harvard Square, new businesses emerge and old favorites awaken after a long pandemic year.

Judith and Herman Chernoff are believed to be among the oldest living couples in Massachusetts, if not the oldest. How have they done it? Herman Chernoff, a Harvard professor emeritus, and his wife are happy to share some tips.

Shannon Freyer, an animal-care technician in Harvard’s Department of Stem Cell and Regenerative Biology, shares stories about her grandfather, who died on his 86th birthday due to COVID-19.

Celebrated poet Kevin Young ’92 will give the address at the 151st Harvard Alumni Association Annual Meeting. Young is the director of the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture.

Since the start of April, about 200 students, faculty, and staff have been taking part in a monthlong, in-person-and-virtual hybrid learning pilot for the Faculty of Arts and Sciences.

As director of the Harvard Healthy Buildings Program at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Joseph G. Allen offers special insight on how the pandemic affected him, his work, and his family.

With renovations complete, accessibility enhanced, and new collections to show off, staff at the Houghton Library look forward to welcoming visitors again.

Harvard Professor Gonzalo Giribet takes on bird photography as pandemic hobby.

Ronald Chandler remembers his mother, Carol Marie Chandler.

The Harvard Alumni Association (HAA) announced that Walter K. Clair ’77, M.D. ’81, M.P.H. ’85, Nancy-Beth Gordon Sheerr ’71, and Preston N. Williams, Ph.D. ’67, will receive the 2021 Harvard Medal. The awards will be presented virtually to the 2021 and 2020 recipients at the association’s annual meeting on June 4.

Preservation Services Director Brenda Bernier discusses preservation during a pandemic — and what comes next.

Brenda Tindal, an award-winning educator and scholar from the International African American Museum in Charleston, S.C., has been named executive director of Harvard Museums of Science and Culture. Tindal will begin her new position May 17.

Twenty-five venture initiatives will compete for more than half a million dollars in prizes in the 2021 President’s Innovation Challenge.

Gazette senior science writer Alvin Powell shares his view on the complexities of dealing with death amid pandemic, coupled with a profile of his colorful, fiercely independent, oft-married, world traveler mom who succumbed to COVID-19 last spring.

At a Meeting of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences on April 6, 2021, the Minute honoring the life and service of the late Devah Pager, Professor of Sociology, was placed upon the records. Pager was renowned for her research on hiring discrimination and the consequences of mass incarceration.

Harvard College has offered admission to 1,223 applicants for the Class of 2025 through its regular-action program, with 1,968 admitted in total, including those selected in the early action process. The total number of applications for the Class of 2025 was 57,435, a marked increase from 40,248 for the Class of 2024.

Harvard Data Science named best new journal in science.

Kathy Santoro, director of HR Programs and Operations for the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, remembers time spent with her mother before losing her to COVID-19.

Mario Leon picked up the nickname Super Mario as a sign of affection over his lengthy tenure as the warm, helpful building manager at Pforzheimer House.

Alyssa Goodman’s class in predictive systems took 28 students all over Harvard Yard as they followed the same directions.

Capturing the creatures that grace Harvard’s buildings, gates, and shields

Harvard is forming a new Office for Gender Equity that will bring together resources previously housed in the Office of Sexual Assault Prevention and Response (OSAPR) and the Title IX Office. The new office will be headed by Title IX coordinator Nicole Merhill.

The Gazette spoke with Denis Downing about how Harvard University Police Department has implemented the recommendations of 21CP Solutions’ review, and what he hopes to accomplish before a new chief is appointed.

The Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences is planning for a full return to campus in the fall, including opening residential accommodations at full density and holding classes in person.

“Science Rehashed” aims to increase accessibility to the latest scientific research.