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  • Culture Lab Innovation Fund award winners announced

    This year’s winners of grants from the Harvard Culture Lab Innovation Fund range from an online race research and policy portal to mentoring technology called SySTEMatic.

    Harvard Yard
  • Three new professors named in math

    Harvard now has three tenured female professors in its Math Department

    Laura DeMarco and Mihnea Popa.
  • Art for justice’s sake

    Students activate, donate in movement to fight inequity, promote police reform.

    Zoom screen capture.
  • A symphony of seasons

    Gazette photographer Kris Snibbe captures the four seasons at Harvard, paying tribute to Vivaldi.

    Katherine Miclau ’20 studies in Lowell House courtyard.
  • Sherri Ann Charleston named chief diversity and inclusion officer

    Sherri Ann Charleston, a diversity expert and a lawyer and historian trained in race and constitutional issues, will become Harvard’s chief diversity and inclusion officer on Aug. 1.

    Sherri Ann Charleston.
  • Teaching to remain online for 2020-21

    Faculty of Arts and Sciences dean announces three potential scenarios for fall in an interim report to the community Monday that also confirmed online teaching will continue for the upcoming academic year.

    Harvard campus.
  • Nancy Coleman named new dean for Division of Continuing Education

    Nancy Coleman has been named the next dean of Harvard’s Division of Continuing Education, succeeding Huntington D. Lambert, who retired in December 2019.

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  • Rewarding innovation in inclusion

    John Silvanus Wilson, senior adviser and strategist to President Larry Bacow, announced the 2020‒2021 grants recipients of the Harvard Culture Lab Innovation Fund (HCLIF).

    Harvard students.
  • An Asylum in Allston

    Somerville nonprofit Artisan’s Asylum will move to Harvard property in Allston, where it will make medical gowns used as personal protective equipment.

    Sal Mancini.
  • Harvard reaches tentative agreement with graduate student union

    After long negotiations, Harvard University and the leadership of the Harvard Graduate Student Union United Auto Workers (HGSU-UAW), which represents more than 4,000 students, have agreed to the terms of a one-year contract.

    Harvard University Gate.
  • Eight current Overseers share their unique stories

    Profiles of eight current members of the Board of Overseers who share their unique stories of experience and service.

    Gate at Loeb House.
  • A reading list on issues of race

    Harvard faculty offer recommendations of books on race everyone should read.

  • Rodrik wins Asturias Award for Social Sciences

    Dani Rodrik, Ford Foundation Professor of International Political Economy at Harvard’s John F. Kennedy School of Government, has been awarded the 2020 Princess of Asturias Award for Social Sciences.

    Dani Rodrik.
  • ‘Moving in the right direction’

    Nearly 2,000 faculty and staff from the FAS Division of Science and the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences got back to their labs this week

    Collage of selfies by masked Harvard researchers back in their labs.
  • The outlook for Harvard online learning

    In a Q&A session, Vice Provost for Advances in Learning Bharat Anand discusses how Harvard is planning for a fall semester largely online.

    Online learning illustration.
  • A passion for stories

    Harvard senior Lauren Spohn heads to the University of Oxford after graduation to keep exploring the ways in which stories can connect us all.

    Lauren Spohn.
  • STEM takes a knee for reflection and reckoning

    Harvard Science takes part in #ShutDownAcademia, #ShutDownSTEM, and #Strike4BlackLives

    Empty bio lab.
  • Flying high, then returning home

    Blythe George is the first member of the Yurok Tribe of Northern California to earn a doctoral degree from Harvard Graduate School of Arts and Sciences.

    Blythe George
  • College names new faculty deans for five Houses

    Faculty deans have been appointed to Cabot, Quincy, Winthrop, Eliot, and Kirkland Houses, effective July 1.

    Quincy House.
  • Echoes of El Salvador in Egypt

    The son of Latin American immigrants, Hainer Sibrian, M.P.P. ’20, is set to launch a career as a U.S. diplomat, inspired by study abroad during Arab Spring.

    Rex Tillerson with Hainer Sibrian.
  • Harvard’s secret court 100 years later

    A discussion about Harvard’s secret court is the first in a series of discussions planned to mark the secretive tribunal’s centennial.

    Harvard Yard in 1920.
  • Home for dinner (and breakfast and lunch)

    The Gazette checked in with students scattered across the globe to see what they and their families have been cooking.

  • Making a place for herself

    Harvard College 2020 graduate Mahlet Shiferaw talks about briefly feeling lost and then regaining her confidence as a woman of color studying astrophysics.

    Mahlet Shiferaw.
  • A ‘messy experiment’

    How Radcliffe became a hub of creativity that helped propel forward the women it engaged, and the women’s movement, in crucial ways.

    Meeting at Radcliffe.
  • Spreading the word on sustainable development

    Hadiza Hamma has a plan for the construction of a road that will dramatically improve the quality of life in Afaka, a town in her home country of Nigeria.

    Hazida Hamma.
  • They will THUD you

    Harvard’s THUD makes rhythmic music with trash cans, buckets, cups — you name it. If it makes a sound, they can probably play it.

    THUD members use buckets as drums.
  • Facing the denial of American racism

    Radcliffe Institute panel explores the social roots of the denial of racism in America, and ways to raise awareness.

    A sign reads, Justice for George Floyd.
  • Student-athletes pleased with time on teams, but balancing commitments difficult

    Results of first-ever study of Harvard Athletics to be used for strategic planning as program approaches centennial.

    Women playing soccer.
  • Blocking fear

    When neuroscience concentrator Sope Adeleye ’20 suffered a severe concussion during volleyball practice her junior year, she knew better than most the risks she was facing.

    Sopa Adeleye on the volleyball court.
  • Explain your thesis in 3 minutes

    A contest has College seniors who spent months researching and writing their theses distill those hours of work and hundreds of pages of analysis into a 3-minute pitch.

    Hakeem Angulu makes his award-winning pitch.