Campus & Community
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5 things we learned this week
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Donald Lee Fanger, 94
Memorial Minute — Faculty of Arts and Sciences
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Atul Gawande named featured speaker for Harvard Alumni Day
Acclaimed surgeon, writer, and public health leader will take the stage at Harvard’s global alumni celebration on June 6
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Sense of isolation, loss amid Gaza war sparks quest to make all feel welcome
Nim Ravid works to end polarization on campus, across multicultural democracies
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4 things we learned this week
How closely have you been following the Gazette? Take our quiz to find out.
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Abraham Verghese, physician and bestselling author, named Commencement speaker
Stanford professor whose novels include ‘Covenant of Water’ to deliver principal address May 29
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In Cincinnati, Faust makes case for college
Harvard President Faust makes the case for college to high school students in Cincinnati, speaks at alumni gathering.
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Staying curious for 40+ years
Harvard University’s Tuition Assistance Program celebrates 40 years of offering lifelong learning.
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Quidditch, anyone? Inside Harvard club sports
Teddy Roosevelt boxed. Neil deGrasse Tyson wrestled. For generations, Harvard students have turned to physical activity for a break from study.
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Corporation Committee on Shareholder Responsibility releases annual report
The 2017 Annual Report of the Corporation Committee on Shareholder Responsibility has been released.
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The objects of their reflection
Whether it’s an Indonesian spell book or a light bulb from the 1880s, the Harvard library’s holdings have charmed students and illuminated their research.
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Bol to step down as vice provost
Peter K. Bol will step down at the end of the summer as Harvard’s vice provost for advances in learning to return to the faulty and to his teaching and research on China’s history.
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Time, nature shape Harvard Yard
Landscape designer contrasts photos of Harvard Yard from before its 1990s restoration with photos taken from the same perspective today.
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The human element: Remembering Calestous Juma
: Calestous Juma, 64, who died Dec. 15 after a long illness, was a professor of the practice of international development at Harvard Kennedy School and director of the Belfer Center’s Science, Technology, and Globalization Project.
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Professor Paola Arlotta awarded George Ledlie Prize
Developmental neurobiologist Paola Arlotta has been awarded the George Ledlie Prize by the President and Fellows of Harvard College.
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Harvard Gazette’s top stories of 2017
Milestones, innovation, analysis, and inspiration from the University and beyond. We look back at some reader favorites.
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Here they came a-caroling
Holiday spirit fills renewed Memorial Church, as services raise $10,000 for crisis center.
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Farewell, Harvard’s grand diplomat
University Marshal Jackie O’Neill is retiring after a 40-year career at Harvard.
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Title IX report released
Harvard University’s Title IX Office and the Office for Dispute Resolution released their 2016-2017 joint annual report today, highlighting the growth in University-wide educational outreach initiatives on Title IX policies and services.
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College accepts 964 early-admission applicants for Class of 2022
Notifications were sent Monday to the 6,630 students who applied for early admission to the College under the Early Action program.
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Study spaces call to students
From Widener Library’s Loker Reading Room to the Harvard Art Museums’ Calderwood Courtyard, photos show Harvard’s most popular study spaces
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Pride in education, and family
First-generation Harvard graduate Yesenia Ortiz is working in nonprofits in part to help struggling families overcome obstacles like those her parents faced.
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Harvard professor among 3 to receive up to $70M for Alzheimer’s research
A Harvard professor is among those slated to receive $70 million in NIH funding over five years to launch the Alzheimer’s Clinical Trials Consortium, which will accelerate and expand the disease’s therapeutic research.
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Harvard files Allston plan
Harvard University launched the initial development phase of a new regional innovation hub on Thursday with the filing of regulatory plans for the Enterprise Research Campus in Allston.
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‘Dream big and act boldly’
“Dream big and act boldly,” 138 Harvard winter grads were urged in a midyear recognition ceremony.
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Evon Vogt, 85
At a Meeting of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, the Minute honoring the life and service of the late Evon Zartman Vogt Jr., Professor of Social Anthropology Emeritus, was placed upon the records. Professor Vogt was a prolific social anthropologist who began the 35-year Harvard Chiapas Project.
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Lee Rainwater, 87
At a Meeting of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, the Minute honoring the life and service of the late Lee Rainwater, Professor of Sociology Emeritus, was placed upon the records. Professor Rainwater engaged in scholarship concerned with the nature and consequences of poverty and economic inequality and co-founded the Luxembourg Income Study (LIS), the primary database for international comparative research on household and individual economic well-being.
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Policy on unrecognized single-gender social organizations to remain
Harvard President Drew Faust announced at a faculty meeting that the Harvard Corporation has voted to keep the policy on unrecognized single-gender social organizations in place.
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A Marshall for Elizabeth Keto
Harvard senior Elizabeth Keto has won a Marshall Scholarship. She’ll study art history and museum curation in Britain next year.
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A campus deeply transformed
The Harvard Kennedy School celebrates the culmination of its campus renewal project.
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Office hours: 6 realities
The Gazette asked six Harvard professors for their thoughts on why few students attend office hours, ways to improve attendance, and what students are missing when they skip office hours.
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3 Harvard seniors gain International Rhodes
Three members of Harvard College’s Class of 2018 have been selected to represent their respective countries, Zimbabwe, Trinidad, and Zambia as Rhodes Scholars.
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Senior looks back as he moves forward
As his final year at Harvard begins its cycle, Matthew DeShaw ’18 finds more questions to be answered, more lessons to be learned.
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‘Principal for a Day’ offers lessons of a different grade
Being “Principal for a Day” teaches a Harvard executive lessons in partnership’s positive impact on local schools.
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Science and Engineering Complex gets final beam
Harvard celebrates “topping-off” the Science and Engineering Complex in Allston.
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Lamont wins Erasmus Prize
Michèle Lamont, Harvard’s Robert I. Goldman Professor of European Studies, professor of sociology, professor of African and African-American studies, and director of the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, has been awarded the Erasmus Prize.