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  • Risk rewarded

    Harvard researchers will share nearly $1 million in funding to pursue high-risk, high-reward projects from using zircons to explore the earliest life on Earth to creating next-generation painkillers.

    Harvard University
  • Revealing webs of inequities rooted in slavery, woven over centuries

    Harvard vows long-term commitment to improve lives, futures of descendant communities through research, education, service.

    Tomiko Brown-Nagin.
  • Lewis, Ong named Carnegie Fellows

    Sarah Elizabeth Lewis and Jonathan Corpus Ong were named Andrew Carnegie Fellows today.

    Jonathan Corpus Ong and Sarah Elizabeth Lewis.
  • Victory of perseverance, vision over more than decade of challenges

    Being able to rebound when life throws up obstacles is nothing new for undergraduate Kimberly Woo, whose road to graduation has been filled with challenges.

    Kimberly Woo
  • Harvard to transition to voluntary COVID testing

    Coronavirus Advisory Group cites low campus rates of severe illness, hospitalizations, and a shift in pandemic phase.

    Dropping a COVID test off at a dropbox in Smith Center.
  • More than just another brick in a wall

    The student creators of a new public art installation in Harvard Yard believe their work can drive change.

    DaLoria Boone etches message into brick.
  • How consequential life grew from dying heart

    For soon-to-be Harvard graduate, his medical career is personal, and a way to give back to a system that saved his life.

    Jon Hochstein.
  • Four to be honored with Harvard Medal

    The Harvard Alumni Association has announced that Avarita L. Hanson ’75, William F. Lee ’72, Dwight D. Miller, Ed.M. ’71, and Tom Reardon ’68 will receive the 2022 Harvard Medal.

    Quincy Street gate.
  • Bringing two worlds together

    Harvard Graduate School of Education grad Nolan Altvater ’22 plans to work on changing education policy regarding Wabanaki culture in Maine public schools.

    Nolan Altvater.
  • Library Collections in three dimensions

    Librarians tell stories behind three objects: rare 16th-century globe set, Edison lightbulb, and DIY 1960s protest clothing.

    Mercator celestial globe.
  • Demystifying Harvard’s admission process

    William Lee, University’s lead counsel, discusses the Supreme Court case with Sherri Ann Charleston, chief diversity and inclusion officer.

    Sherri Charleston and Bill Lee.
  • Let us not suffer Psets alone

    Part study hall, part help desk, part social space, it proves math needn’t be all about solitary scholars racking their brains on Pythagorean theorems.

    Joanna Walters, Raquel Reis, Jocelyn Wang, and Ivy Tirok.
  • Mastering move with high level of difficulty, prize-winning execution

    Marissa Sumathipala was an Olympic hopeful, started a company at 17, and is now graduating Harvard.

    Marissa Sumathipala.
  • Making field to table work regionally

    Nina Sayles’ love of gardening is blooming into a drive to provide more nutritious foods for us all.

    Nina Sayles
  • Reframing American Studies

    Scholar Philip Deloria encourages his students to push boundaries of American Studies.

    Charles Hua in class.
  • Theodore C. Bestor, 69

    At a Meeting of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences on April 5, 2022, the Minute honoring the life and service of the late Theodore C. Bestor, Reischauer Institute Professor of Social Anthropology, was placed upon the records. Professor Bestor was a major force in the emergence of the social anthropology subdiscipline of East Asian ethnography.

  • Jerome Kagan, 92

    At a Meeting of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences on April 5, 2022, the Minute honoring the life and service of the late Jerome Kagan, Daniel and Amy Starch Professor of Psychology, Emeritus, was placed upon the records. Professor Kagan Kagan pioneered the integration of biological and psychological methods.

  • Robert Duncan Luce, 87

    At a Meeting of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences on April 5, 2022, the Minute honoring the life and service of the late R. Duncan Luce, Victor S. Thomas Professor of Psychology, Emeritus, was placed upon the records. Professor Luce was a renowned mathematical psychologist.

  • James Sidanius, 75

    At a Meeting of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences on April 5, 2022, the Minute honoring the life and service of the late James Sidanius, John Lindsley Professor of Psychology in Memory of William James and Professor of African and African American Studies, was placed upon the records. Professor Sidanius was a widely recognized scholar in the fields of social and political psychology.

  • Seeing like anthropologist through camera’s lens

    Ryan Christopher Jones brings an anthropologist’s eye to his work as a freelance journalist. After finishing his liberal arts degree at the Extension School, he’ll be pursuing a Ph.D. in anthropology at Harvard this fall.

    Ryan Christopher Jones.
  • Entering a second decade of innovation

    The 11th annual President’s Innovation Challenge names 25 finalists.

    Event finalists.
  • Tracy Palandjian elected to Harvard Corporation

    Tracy Pun Palandjian ’93, M.B.A. ’97, a Boston-based nonprofit leader, former Harvard Overseer, and recognized expert on impact investing, will become the newest member of the Harvard Corporation, the University announced Monday.

    Tracy Palandjian.
  • Taeku Lee joins Faculty of Arts and Sciences

    Taeku Lee is a leading scholar on racial and ethnic politics, identity formation, and inequality.

    Taeku Lee.
  • Harvard to expand financial aid starting with Class of ’26

    The change aims to ease the pressures of expenses and remove economic barriers to attending Harvard College.

    Harvard Yard.
  • Allyson Hobbs is elected Class of 1997’s chief marshal

    Allyson Hobbs ’97, whose award-winning writing, scholarship, and teaching tackle the history and lasting impact of race in the U.S., will serve as this year’s chief marshal of alumni.

  • Rhapsody in blue

    Gazette photographers use the cyanotype printing process to capture Harvard Yard trees.

    A cyanotype composites an oak leaf from Harvard Yard with a figure walking toward Massachusetts Hall.
  • Harvard expands ombuds

    In December, Harvard expanded and centralized its ombuds services at the Longwood Medical Area and Cambridge. Two ombuds explain how they can best serve the Harvard community.

    Longwood Medical area.
  • What climate education should look like

    The Climate Education Committee looks to the Harvard community to help envision what climate education should look like in 2030.

    Solar panels on the High Bay on 38 Oxford Street.
  • Finding ways to help Ukraine

    Grad student, first-years gather humanitarian aid, create website to pair foreign hosts, fleeing war refugees.

    Avi Schiffmann.
  • Puncturing myth of purity of science, technology

    Harvard Kennedy School Professor Sheila Jasanoff, winner of the 2022 Holberg Prize, reflects on the long road she’s traveled to develop the field of science and technology studies.

    Sheila Jasanoff.