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Three Alumni Named as National Book Award Finalists
Three Harvard alumni were among the nominees announced on Tuesday as finalists for the 2022 National Book Awards. In the nonfiction category, Princeton historian Imani Perry, J.D.-Ph.D.’00, was nominated for South to America: A Journey Below the …
Dean of Student Life Departs
Dean of student life Suzy M. Nelson will leave at the end of the academic year to accept a post as vice president and dean of the college at Colgate University in Hamilton, New York, Harvard College dean Evelynn M. Hammonds announced today. Under Nelson's …
The State of Unions
“What do we do when we have the public on our side, when we have workers in motion, when we see people playing by the rules and still not getting ahead?” asked Sharon Block, executive director for the new Center for Labor and a Just Economy, based at …
Overseer and HAA Director Members Elected
The University announced today the newly elected members of the Board of Overseers (one of Harvard’s two governing boards), who assume their roles May 24, and directors of the Harvard Alumni Association (HAA), whose terms begin July 1. They were chosen by …
Harvard Kennedy School Reverses Position on Human-Rights Fellowship
T he highly contested public debate over the Harvard Kennedy School’s decision not to appoint a prominent human-rights leader to a fellowship last summer—publicized in recent weeks—has, today, been followed by a reversal of that decision. Last spring, the …
In this Issue
Yesterdays News Harvard Portrait Interim Agendas An Allston Metamorphosis? Adios, Early Admissions Money-Management Makeover Controversial Visitor Bigger Biology Brevia Sciences and Gender The Undergraduate Sports Alumni The College Pump Journal Opener …
Issue: November-December 2006
Executive Education, Innovation Lab, Allston Alterations
Harvard Business School (HBS) today announced receipt of a $50-million gift to fund a new building on its campus for executive education . At the same time, the University announced that it would convert one of the buildings it owns in Allston—the former …
Debating Diversity
The Students for Fair Admissions (SFFA) lawsuit alleging Harvard College bias against Asian-American applicants is now in the hands of federal judge Allison D. Burroughs in Boston; final arguments were heard on February 13. In the meantime, SFFA’s suit …
Issue: May-June 2019
Cranberry Harvest Celebration
Long before cranberries were corralled and canned to zest up roasted turkeys, Native Americans used the indigenous North American fruit for food, medicine, and dyes. European settlers followed suit, yet it was not until 1816 that wild cranberries were …
Issue: September-October 2016
“Living Underwater”: Harvard’s Inaugural Black Commencement
The Black Graduate Student Alliance held its inaugural Black Commencement at the Law School’s Holmes Field this morning, a ceremony honoring black graduates from across Harvard’s graduate schools. There was no headline speaker; instead, the event featured …
Undergraduate Education Agendas
I. Gen Ed in the Offing When she became dean of undergraduate education last July 1, Amanda Claybaugh, Zemurray Stone Radcliffe professor of English, immediately inherited the Faculty of Arts and Sciences’ (FAS) longest-running, most pressing curricular …
Issue: March-April 2019
No Easy Answers
Hundreds of listeners tuned in Thursday evening for an online Harvard-community discussion, led by Bass professor of government Michael Sandel, on the ethical, social, and political questions provoked by the coronavirus pandemic. Is it morally OK to avoid …
Harvard Announces Dean of Diversity, Inclusion, and Belonging
On Monday afternoon, Harvard announced the appointment of Sheree Ohen as the inaugural associate dean of diversity, inclusion, and belonging for the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS). She comes to the post from Clark University, where she is chief …
Frank Gehry to Receive Arts Medal
Architect Frank Gehry , Ds ’57, Ar.D. ’00, creator of the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao and MIT’s Stata Center, will receive the Harvard Arts Medal at the opening event of the annual Arts First festival on April 28. The event’s host, actor John Lithgow ’67, …
John Lithgow on the Arts, and Life
Actor and author John Lithgow ’67, Ar.D. ’05, made some extended remarks on the arts, including personal reflections on his own childhood experiences with visual arts, at the first meeting of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences' Commission on …