Campus & Community

The Graduate School of Design has announced a revised master’s degree program that replaces eight concentration areas with four “domains,” all designed to address the interaction of design with landscape, ecology, infrastructure, and other environmental concerns.

Harvard this week released its annual financial report, which details a $10 million deficit due to the sudden and overwhelming financial effects of the COVID-19 pandemic. The Gazette spoke with Harvard Executive Vice President Katie Lapp and Chief Financial Officer Thomas Hollister about the fiscal year that ended June 30.

Carlyle Group co-founder David Rubenstein and Harvard President Larry Bacow reflect on the qualities of leadership.

Broaden your worldview by engaging with diversity in the widest sense, Ali Asani counsels.

A new degree program, Master in Religion and Public Life, will welcome its first class in the fall of 2021. The Religion and Public Life initiative kicked off this fall.

Harvard and the Legacy of Slavery is a new research effort that will drive scholarship and dialogue around the history and enduring legacy of slavery at the University.

The Gazette spoke with new Chief Diversity and Inclusion Officer Sherri Charleston to learn more about her first two months on the job.

Harvard Law School Professor Joseph William Singer discusses his new book on persuasion and its key role in civil discourse and the rule of law.

Brigid Kennedy ’21 knows she’s lucky to be rowing on the Charles River for this year’s virtual Head of the Charles Regatta, Oct. 9-17, and her gratitude shows.

Srikant Datar, the Arthur Lowes Dickinson Professor of Business Administration and senior associate dean for University affairs at Harvard Business School, will become the School’s next dean, President Larry Bacow announced.

Harvard scientists receive prestigious grant funding through NIH program.

Via a tweet, Harvard professor and Nobel laureate Jack Szostak congratulated former student Jennifer Doudna, who won the Nobel in chemistry on Wednesday.

The Harvard Votes Challenge has recruited more than 150 affiliates to work the polls as part of its partnership with the Safe Elections Network and Power to the Polls. The Gazette spoke to a handful of students and staff about why they decided to get involved.

At a Meeting of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences on October 6, 2020, the Minute honoring the life and service of the late John Torrence Tate, Jr., Perkins Professor of Mathematics, Emeritus, was placed upon the records. Professor Tate was a world leader in number theory.

At a Meeting of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences on Oct. 6, 2020, the Minute honoring the life and service of the late Joaquim-Francisco Coelho, Nancy Clark Smith Professor of the Language and Literature of Portugal and Professor of Comparative Literature, Emeritus, was placed upon the records. Coelho was a scholar of Portuguese and Brazilian literatures and a humanist in the grand tradition.

Harvard Professor Isaiah Andrews is honored with a MacArthur for his work in econometrics.

The Harvard Ed Portal and Harvard University IT partnered on a free Zoom event meant to address teachers’ and parents’ concerns about how much time in front of a computer is too much, how can people stay engaged while social distancing, and whether we should worry about children’s safety on the internet.

More than the presidency must be decided by Nov. 3. To help students get involved, the University offers the Harvard Votes Challenge.

Now in its fourth year, Harvard Worldwide Week goes entirely online for the first time, allowing participants to visit affiliates around the world

FAS launches a task force comprised of faculty, students, and staff to examine FAS’s visual culture.

The Gazette spoke with Harvard Vice President for Finances Thomas J. Hollister about FY20 and a forecast for FY21. He also outlined the three overriding financial principles the University will maintain during the pandemic.

Holmes academic society renamed in honor of physician-scientist William Augustus Hinton.

Two Harvard College siblings share a graduation year and a determination for pursuing their passions.

The global Harvard community participated in the University’s first Global Day of Service.

We look at how the different graduate Schools are handling online learning in the fall.

Richard A. Smith, a former member of both of Harvard’s governing boards, has died at age 95. Smith was a member of the Harvard Corporation from 1991 to 2000, and…

Catherine Dulac is awarded a 2021 Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences for her pioneering work identifying the neural circuitry that regulates parenting behavior.

Breaktime Cafe, started by two Harvard students, works to feed vulnerable community members.

Jane Mansbridge, one of the world’s leading scholars of democratic theory talks about her “jagged trajectory” toward success.

William V. Giannobile, D.M.Sc. ’96, P.D. ’96, talks about assuming his role as dean of Harvard Dental School of Medicine in the midst of a pandemic and what he envisions for the future.