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
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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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Yes, it’s exciting. Just don’t look at the sun.
Lab, telescope specialist details Harvard eclipse-viewing party, offers safety tips
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College accepts 1,937 to Class of 2028
Students represent 94 countries, all 50 states
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The stories behind the theses
Six students share their inspirations and outcomes
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Progress and challenges on the road to net zero
New reporting requirement for public companies ‘a meaningful step forward,’ says director of sustainable investing at HMC
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Pushing back on DEI ‘orthodoxy’
Panelists support diversity efforts but worry that current model is too narrow, denying institutions the benefit of other voices, ideas
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Initiatives showcase solutions to world problems
President’s Innovation Challenge finalists announced, will vie for share of $515,000 in funding
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Sonia Sotomayor to receive 2024 Radcliffe Medal
Associate justice of U.S. Supreme Court honored for her work as a fearless and compassionate jurist
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Presidential task forces announce listening sessions
Task forces to combat antisemitism and anti-Muslim and anti-Arab bias will hear from Harvard College students, with more engagement planned across the University
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Maria Ressa named 2024 Commencement speaker
Nobel Prize-winning defender of press freedom will deliver principal address
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7 chosen for Motsepe Presidential Research Fund award
Funds will support projects that advance challenges and opportunities facing Africa
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Garber emphasizes ‘critical collaboration’ in U.K. visit
Interim president meets with scholars and alumni in first international trip
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Lending a hand to a former student — Boston’s mayor
Economist gathers group of Boston area academics to assess costs of creating tax incentives for developers to ease housing crunch
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Parrot tale
‘Beyond Words’ dramatizes story of former Harvard researcher and famous bird
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Sustainability programs’ focus will expand at Harvard Extension
New director brings global perspective as students address international concerns
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Studying Latin American literature of stateless amid new era of displacement
Harvard Horizons Scholar to detail research at Sanders symposium
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Rise of the machines?
Students wrestle with AI and its impacts in new course
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Professors, mentors, Cherokee Scholars
Harvard colloquium unites Indigenous academics to deepen each other’s work
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Living in Leverett next year? That’s what the carrot said.
Warm (if loud) emotions echo across Yard for Housing Day 2024
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‘Curiosity as a tool of change’
College junior creates text hotline to provide nonpartisan information, resources on Israel-Hamas conflict
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Should universities be taking official stances on political, social issues of day?
Experts at Radcliffe event weigh whether ‘institutional neutrality’ is best way to encourage academic freedom, safeguard core mission
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Yoshito Kishi, 85
Memorial Minute — Faculty of Arts and Sciences
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Donald Adelbert Stone Jr., 80
Memorial Minute — Faculty of Arts and Sciences
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Harvard Griffin GSAS applications rise nearly 16% over past three years
25,240 applicant pool for master’s, Ph.D. programs
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What makes a House a home
HoCo chairs share residential life’s quirks, points of pride
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Calling it as he sees it
Broadcast legend Gus Johnson found ‘the real peace’ at Harvard
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Haim Sompolinsky awarded Brain Prize
Neuroscientist honored for pioneering theories of brain function
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Ted Donato crosses 300-win marker, creeping up on all-time record
Former standout Crimson, NHL player, now in 20th year as head coach, says success in game is all about character
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Harvard Law School Dean John Manning named interim provost
John Goldberg to serve as interim dean
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12 win Harvard Culture Lab awards to advance inclusion and belonging
Community-based projects will benefit University Schools and units
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University names task force members in efforts to combat antisemitism, anti-Arab and anti-Muslim bias
‘We must do much more to bridge the fissures that have weakened our sense of community’