Campus & Community
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Natural Black hair, and why it matters
With deep significance for identity, choice, even legality, it’s more than just a woman’s crowning glory
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Voice of a generation? Dylan’s is much more than that.
Classics professor who wrote ‘Why Bob Dylan Matters’ on the challenge of capturing a master of creative evasion
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Universal, adaptable, wearable, vulnerable
‘On Display Harvard’ uses performance, zip ties, to bring attention to the UN’s International Day of Persons With Disabilities
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Three Harvard students named Marshall Scholars
‘Chance of a lifetime’ for recipients whose fields include history, genomics, K-12 education
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Seeing is believing
Personal and global history made Jeremy Weinstein want to change the world. As dean of the Kennedy School, he’s found the perfect place to do it.
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Life stories with a beat you can dance to
Renowned actress and tap dancer Ayodele Casel premieres her autobiographical musical at A.R.T.
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Harvard Gazette’s top stories of 2017
Milestones, innovation, analysis, and inspiration from the University and beyond. We look back at some reader favorites.
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Here they came a-caroling
Holiday spirit fills renewed Memorial Church, as services raise $10,000 for crisis center.
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Farewell, Harvard’s grand diplomat
University Marshal Jackie O’Neill is retiring after a 40-year career at Harvard.
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Title IX report released
Harvard University’s Title IX Office and the Office for Dispute Resolution released their 2016-2017 joint annual report today, highlighting the growth in University-wide educational outreach initiatives on Title IX policies and services.
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College accepts 964 early-admission applicants for Class of 2022
Notifications were sent Monday to the 6,630 students who applied for early admission to the College under the Early Action program.
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Study spaces call to students
From Widener Library’s Loker Reading Room to the Harvard Art Museums’ Calderwood Courtyard, photos show Harvard’s most popular study spaces
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Pride in education, and family
First-generation Harvard graduate Yesenia Ortiz is working in nonprofits in part to help struggling families overcome obstacles like those her parents faced.
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Harvard professor among 3 to receive up to $70M for Alzheimer’s research
A Harvard professor is among those slated to receive $70 million in NIH funding over five years to launch the Alzheimer’s Clinical Trials Consortium, which will accelerate and expand the disease’s therapeutic research.
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Harvard files Allston plan
Harvard University launched the initial development phase of a new regional innovation hub on Thursday with the filing of regulatory plans for the Enterprise Research Campus in Allston.
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‘Dream big and act boldly’
“Dream big and act boldly,” 138 Harvard winter grads were urged in a midyear recognition ceremony.
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Evon Vogt, 85
At a Meeting of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, the Minute honoring the life and service of the late Evon Zartman Vogt Jr., Professor of Social Anthropology Emeritus, was placed upon the records. Professor Vogt was a prolific social anthropologist who began the 35-year Harvard Chiapas Project.
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Lee Rainwater, 87
At a Meeting of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, the Minute honoring the life and service of the late Lee Rainwater, Professor of Sociology Emeritus, was placed upon the records. Professor Rainwater engaged in scholarship concerned with the nature and consequences of poverty and economic inequality and co-founded the Luxembourg Income Study (LIS), the primary database for international comparative research on household and individual economic well-being.
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Policy on unrecognized single-gender social organizations to remain
Harvard President Drew Faust announced at a faculty meeting that the Harvard Corporation has voted to keep the policy on unrecognized single-gender social organizations in place.
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A Marshall for Elizabeth Keto
Harvard senior Elizabeth Keto has won a Marshall Scholarship. She’ll study art history and museum curation in Britain next year.
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A campus deeply transformed
The Harvard Kennedy School celebrates the culmination of its campus renewal project.
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Office hours: 6 realities
The Gazette asked six Harvard professors for their thoughts on why few students attend office hours, ways to improve attendance, and what students are missing when they skip office hours.
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3 Harvard seniors gain International Rhodes
Three members of Harvard College’s Class of 2018 have been selected to represent their respective countries, Zimbabwe, Trinidad, and Zambia as Rhodes Scholars.
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Senior looks back as he moves forward
As his final year at Harvard begins its cycle, Matthew DeShaw ’18 finds more questions to be answered, more lessons to be learned.
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‘Principal for a Day’ offers lessons of a different grade
Being “Principal for a Day” teaches a Harvard executive lessons in partnership’s positive impact on local schools.
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Science and Engineering Complex gets final beam
Harvard celebrates “topping-off” the Science and Engineering Complex in Allston.
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Lamont wins Erasmus Prize
Michèle Lamont, Harvard’s Robert I. Goldman Professor of European Studies, professor of sociology, professor of African and African-American studies, and director of the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, has been awarded the Erasmus Prize.
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Inside Harvard’s green labs
Harvard scientists are all for collaborating when it comes to research, but challenge them to save energy in their labs and the competition can get fierce.
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Food programs grow as Harvard cooks up new ideas
The University donates an average of 2,600 pounds of food each month to help feed the area’s hungry. Much of it comes as meals prepared by Harvard students.
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Rhodes Scholars had help along the way
A closer look at the four Harvard undergrads selected with 28 other students as 2018 U.S. Rhodes Scholars.
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Gratitude aplenty
Faculty and staff at Harvard’s Faculty of Arts and Sciences sent appreciative notes and dropped off donations to the Harvard Square Homeless Shelter at a pre-Thanksgiving celebration.
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Opening the gates, closing the education gap
In Washington, D.C., gathering, Faust and faculty discuss closing the education gap through equity.
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Samuel Huntington, 81
At a Meeting of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences on Nov. 7, 2017, the following tribute to the life and service of the late Samuel Huntington was placed upon the permanent records of the Faculty.
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Adam Marian Dziewoński, 79
At a Meeting of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences on Nov. 7, 2017, the following tribute to the life and service of the late Adam Marian Dziewoński was placed upon the permanent records of the Faculty.
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Avoiding cyber attacks
Harvard’s Chief Information Security Officer Christian Hamer offers best-practice guidelines to guard against phishing attacks.
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Looking for a person, and perspective
Bill Lee, senior fellow of the Harvard Corporation and chair of Harvard’s presidential search committee, shared his views on the progress so far in the search for Harvard’s 29th leader and how the consultative process can help set the agenda ahead.