The Harvard Graduate Council is pleased to present our eighth annual Leadership Conference! This year’s theme is Tools For Leadership. You will learn from engaging speakers and then exchange your own ideas with distinguished faculty, key experts, and representatives from the public and private sectors. Whether you focus on a topic area of familiarity or…

Former United States Secretary of State John Kerry will deliver the Graduation Address to the Harvard Kennedy School Class of 2017 at 2 p.m. on May 24 at Harvard Kennedy School (HKS), HKS Dean Douglas Elmendorf announced today. Kerry is Yale University’s Distinguished Fellow for Global Affairs, where he is leading the Kerry Initiative on…

Twenty-five out-of-school time educators from Boston and Cambridge recently participated in a two-part workshop on family engagement at the Harvard Ed Portal in Allston. Sessions were facilitated by Harvard Graduate School of Education doctoral students Stephany Cuevas and Deepa Vasudevan. Attendees explored leading research on the relationship between family engagement and improving both their organizations…

A new collaboration between researchers at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, the Stanley Center for Psychiatric Research at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, and six African universities and institutes aims to boost genetics research capacity in Africa, and ultimately to help close gaps in knowledge about mental health in a population historically…

The Shorenstein Center mourns the death of Jonathan Moore, a longtime friend, supporter and early architect of the Center.  Jonathan was a member of the Shorenstein Center’s Advisory Board for many years, was an advisor to all of the Center directors, and had an office at the Center as an Associate beginning in 1995. Jonathan…

The recipients of the annual Peter J. Gomes S.T.B. ’68 Memorial Honors are typically people who have changed the world. This year’s group is no different, with one important exception: They were also chosen for the way they changed Harvard Divinity School. “This year we celebrate the School’s bicentennial,” said Dean David N. Hempton. “We look forward…

Grab your sneakers and register to join the Harvard Community for a University-wide fun run on Friday, March 24.  This free, untimed 5K will do three loops around historic Harvard Yard and the northern Law School campus.  Harvard students, faculty, and staff, along with their friends and families are welcome to participate. Registration, refreshments, and…

The Center for Public Leadership (CPL) at Harvard Kennedy School (HKS) is pleased to announce that human rights activists and Pulitzer Prize-winners Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn will join CPL as Hauser Visiting Leaders during the spring and fall 2017 semesters. Kristof and WuDunn are well-known for their reporting around the globe. From Tiananmen Square…

The Music Department’s Louis C. Elson Lecture will be delivered this spring by cellist  Yo-Yo Ma. “A Conversation with Yo-Yo Ma: Culture, Connection, and Citizenship in a Time of Change,” features Ma and members of the Silk Road Ensemble in a lecture/presentation beginning at 5:00 p.m. on Wednesday, March 22 in John Knowles Paine Concert…

The Association for Psychological Science (APS) recently named Daniel Schacter as one of the recipients of the 2017 William James Fellow Award. The William James Fellow Award honors individuals for their lifetime of significant intellectual contributions to the basic science of psychology. Schacter, William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor of Psychology, has taught at Harvard since…

Maya Jasanoff, Coolidge Professor of History, was recently named one of the winners of the 2017 Windham-Campbell prize in recognition of her nonfiction writing. Jasanoff is the author of “Edge of Empire: Lives, Culture, and Conquest in the East, 1750-1850” (2005), and “Liberty’s Exiles: American Loyalists in the Revolutionary World” (2011). “Liberty’s Exiles” won numerous distinctions, including the George…

The Faculty of Arts and Sciences’ Girguis Laboratory may specialize in studying microbes that inhabit the deepest and darkest areas of the ocean, but their research spaces are light and inviting thanks to a recent renovation, which was awarded LEED Gold certification from the U.S. Green Building Council. The purpose of the 6,415-square-foot renovation was…

Digital Access to Scholarship at Harvard is a free repository of vetted research, breaking down barriers to information across the world. After reading a journal article on the transgender community in Iran from Harvard’s open access collections, an anonymous reader writes: “I happen to belong the population of this study, namely a genetic male, gender-fluid…

Cambridge, Mass. — The $25,000 Goldsmith Prize for Investigative Reporting from the Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy at Harvard Kennedy School has been awarded to Shane Bauer of Mother Jones for his investigative report “My Four Months as a Private Prison Guard.” Bauer spent four months working as a guard to get…

With the renovation of the Memorial Church during Fall Term, the Harvard University Choir stretched their voices into new venues across the campus. Auditions and rehearsals were in Paine Hall, the Fall Concert at Sanders Theatre and the Carol Services took place in St. Paul Church. But after the extended tour of Harvard Square, the…

The Harvard Art Museums have been awarded a $250,000 grant from the Terra Foundation for American Art to support the upcoming special exhibition “The Philosophy Chamber: Art and Science in Harvard’s Teaching Cabinet, 1766–1820.” The exhibition, featuring more than 100 works, will present exciting new scholarship on Harvard’s 18th-century Philosophy Chamber, one of the most unusual…

For the second year in a row, students from the Cambridge Housing Authority’s (CHA) The Work Force Program recently visited Harvard, in an effort to help inspire students to accomplish their educational aspirations by demonstrating that college is an attainable goal. The students were greeted by Dr. Irvin Scott, from the Harvard Graduate School of…