Campus & Community

Nigerian-born writer Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie was selected to be Harvard College’s Class Day speaker as part of the University’s 367th Commencement Week celebration. The May 23 event will be streamed live online.

What she lacks in size she makes up for in volume as leader of the heavyweight varsity rowers.

Harvard instructor Sunn m’Cheaux worked with 30 Vassal Lane Upper School seventh-graders, teaching them the origin of the Gullah language as part of Harvard’s Project Teach program.

Harvard’s faculty is more diverse than ever, with women making up 30 percent of tenured and tenure-track faculty and minorities making up 23 percent.

Divinity School student and former Navy SEAL Daniel Cnossen won six medals as part of the U.S. Nordic skiing team at the 2018 Paralympics.

Adams House is the next Harvard residence complex slated for renewal. It includes a building that predates the Revolution, an antique printing press, and a theater crafted from a swimming pool. The renewal will retain such gems, while improving accessibility and providing modern amenities.

At the annual Citizenship Celebration Dinner, Harvard welcomed its newest Americans.

Four teams and 61 employees from across FAS were honored at the annual Dean’s Distinction Awards ceremony.

Harvard Law School students are volunteering their time to provide tax help to the community at the Cambridge Public Library.

A gift from Jorge Paulo Lemann ’61 will support the creation of new curricular offerings and expanding current courses that focus on innovation and entrepreneurship.

At a Meeting of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, the Minute honoring the life and service of the late Jurij Striedter, Curt Hugo Reisinger Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures and Professor of Comparative Literature, was placed upon the records. Professor Striedter was a leading scholar of Russian literature.

At a Meeting of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, the Minute honoring the life and service of the late I. Bernard Cohen, Victor S. Thomas Professor of the History of Science Emeritus, was placed upon the records. Professor Cohen led the professionalization of the history of science and established the flagship department at Harvard.

Catherine Dulac, Jennifer Lewis, Louis Menand, and Mary C. Waters have been appointed to prestigious, five-year chairs at Harvard.

Famed activist Angela Davis was guest speaker at a Harvard Art Museums event co-sponsored by the DACA Seminar.

Vikram Sundar ’18 was awarded a Churchill Scholarship to study at the University of Cambridge in the fall.

Harvard College has admitted 1,962 to the Class of ’22, out of a record applicant pool of 42,749.

Harvard’s Presidential Task Force on Inclusion and Belonging issued its final report, a compilation of eight recommendations and a framework of “four goals and four tools” meant as a blueprint for advancing Harvard’s practices and culture of inclusion and belonging. President Drew Faust announced a series of initiatives to advance this work.

The Presidential Task Force on Inclusion and Belonging has issued its final report. The Gazette spoke with John Silvanus Wilson, former president of Morehouse College and new senior adviser and strategist to the president charged with implementing its recommendations.

Students who take “Native Americans in the 21st Century” leave the classroom to visit communities in Indian country to help them build healthier communities and reduce disparities in education, health, and economics.

Stories from Haley Catherine Curtin ’18 and other Harvard students illuminate the personal dimension of financial aid.

Two of the original members of the Harvard Extension Alumni Association look back on the School and the association to which they have given 50 years — and received much in return.

An interview with Orlando Patterson, the John Cowles Professor of Sociology, on the 50th anniversary of the Kerner Report, which concluded in 1968 that “the nation was moving toward two societies, one black, one white — separate and unequal.”

Danoff Dean of Harvard College Rakesh Khurana has announced the appointment of Professor Brian Farrell and Irina Ferreras as the faculty deans for Leverett House.

A profile of Tristan Ahtone, a 2017‒2018 Nieman Fellow and a member of the Kiowa tribe of Oklahoma. He’s the fourth Native American Nieman Fellow since the organization was founded in 1938.

Michael D. Smith, Edgerley Family Dean of Harvard’s Faculty of Arts and Sciences, will step down from his leadership of Harvard’s largest School to return full-time to teaching.

The inauguration of Harvard’s 29th president, Lawrence S. Bacow, will take place on Oct. 5.

The Boston Planning and Development Agency board has approved Harvard’s initial regulatory document for an Enterprise Research Campus, located near the new Allston home of the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences.

Rhode Island Gov. Gina M. Raimondo ’93 has been elected to serve as chief marshal of the alumni at Harvard’s 367th Commencement Exercises.

At Harvard, the President’s Administrative Innovation Fund embraces creative problem-solving among staff members.

Harvard legal scholar Cass Sunstein has won the Holberg Prize, one of the largest international awards given to an outstanding researcher in the arts and humanities, the social sciences, law, or theology.