Harvard College
News, milestones, and profiles focused on the undergraduate experience.
The Year a Beat Poet Squatted at Harvard
In 1954, Gregory Corso moved into Eliot House. How he stayed there is a literary legend.
A pocket globe at the Harvard Archives
Ebenezer Storer’s pocket globe
by Jacob Sweet
From Bureau of Study Counsel to Academic Resource Center
From Bureau of Study Counsel to Academic Resource Center
Dwight Miller, longtime Harvard admissions officer, retires
College admissions stalwart Dwight Miller retires.
New Ledecky Fellows for 2019-2020
The Ledecky Fellows provide an undergraduate perspective on life at Harvard.
The Movement for Open Syllabi
“It’s kind of like when you go to the library to check out one book, but it’s actually the book next to the book you were looking for that was the important one. A syllabus sets up that opportunity.”
Harvard Appoints Interim Winthrop House Leaders
After a tumultuous semester, Mark and Mary Herlihy-Gearan take up the reins.
Harvard Testing Tool for Curricular Exploration
Researchers with metaLAB (at) Harvard will test a new course exploration tool that presents the curriculum as a rich network of connections.
Harvard dismisses fencing coach
Peter Brand dismissed
"I Can't See My Family"
DACA recipient Daishi Miguel Tanaka '19 graduated last month without his parents in attendance.
Adams House Renewal Begins
The four-year renewal of Adams will run far longer than any of the other House projects.