Campus & Community

In an interview, Harvard President Larry Bacow reflects on his first year in office, the importance of truth as a principle, his commitment to public service, and what he’s most looking forward to during his first Commencement as the University’s leader.

Faraaz Mahomed, of the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, is working to protect the rights of those using mental health systems throughout the world.

Wonik Son has examined post-World War II humanitarian images for what they say about injury and disability and where they fit into history, including his own.

Professor Catherine Dulac used the money from her endowed position to fund the studies of an overloaded neuroscience undergrad.

Aurora Straus, a race-car driver and Harvard first-year, is a role model for girls but still encounters sexism around the track.

Dominique Erney witnessed criminal justice too close to her family, and graduates prepared to fight for reform in the system.

Venture capitalist James Breyer, M.B.A. ’87, will step down from the Harvard Corporation on June 30 after serving for six years.

Harvard students, professors, alumni, and staff talk about the places on campus they love most.

Throughout her time at Harvard, Mahnoor Ali has been devoted to exploring intercultural relations and expanding dialogue.

Jane Pickering, executive director of the Harvard Museums of Science and Culture, will become the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology’s director on July 1.

Data, and conversations about its management and fair use, took center stage at the ninth annual Harvard IT Summit last week, held on the campus of Harvard Business School.

In advance of Angela Merkel’s visit, the Gazette looked at a number of key episodes between Germany and Harvard throughout the 19th and 20th centuries.

Four Harvard deans discuss their role models and their work as top administrators.

The projects range from making one the world’s smallest flying machines to opening a new lane of research in the study of climate change to developing a groundbreaking technology that conducts electricity with 100 percent efficiency to an investigation of how environmental change affects bees.

Jane Pickering has been named the William and Muriel Seabury Howells Director of Harvard’s Peabody Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology. She will begin her five-year term July 1.

M.Div. candidate Aric Flemming is taking a year off to immerse himself in music, both spiritual and secular.

Sara Bobok returns repeatedly to her native Hungary, where she’ll next study sex trafficking, aiming to make an impact on the country’s young people.

One of Harvard’s rites of passage is to write a thesis. Students and administrators talk about the process, the requirements, and the ordeal of undertaking an independent project that is unlike any other in students’ College years.

Alice Hill will be the first Australian and the first Canadian to lead the HAA, as well as the first from the Asia Pacific region. She plans to bring those perspectives to the table as president.

While she was earning a master’s at HGSE, Nicole Johnson worked four jobs, was vice president of the HGSE Student Council, and won the Miss Massachusetts International Pageant.

In England, Rhodes Scholar Brittany Ellis will continue to promote collaboration between museums and communities in curatorial decision-making.

Harvard College senior Camille DeSisto’s love of the environment took her around the world to Madagascar’s tropical forests.

Kindergarten through fifth grade Boston Public School students become “Young Scientists” for a day through the Arnold Arboretum’s Field Study Experiences program.

Both graduating this May, the two Cat Zhangs weigh in on four years of being confused with each other and the respective legacies they leave behind.

La’Toya Princess Jackson’s thesis, “Black Swans Shattering the Glass Ceiling,” focuses on African American contributions to ballet.

Dalton Brunson’s biology studies have led him to labs, research, and successes that he hopes keep him ever mindful of his commitment to expanding health care in rural areas.

A new Houghton Library exhibit connects early celestial calculations to the Apollo 11 mission that put two American astronauts on the lunar surface 50 years ago. “Small Steps, Giant Leaps: Apollo 11 at Fifty” offers gems from Harvard’s collection of rare books and manuscripts as well as NASA items that were aboard the spaceship in July 1969.

Harvard re-installs plaque honoring students from the late 1930s who started a scholarship that helped 16 European refugees flee Nazi persecution and study at Harvard.

Schuyler Bailar ’19 is the first openly transgender swimmer in the National Collegiate Athletic Association and a member of the Harvard men’s swimming team.

Over seven years, Professor of Education Roberto Gonzales interviewed thousands of undocumented young people who qualified for deferred action from deportation under DACA, and found that for high achievers among them, community and family mentors made the difference.