Current Events and Campus Life
Twelve faculty named to National Academy of Medicine
October 16, 2018
Twelve Harvard faculty are among the 85 new members elected to the National Academy of Medicine, which is considered one of the highest honors in the fields of health and medicine. Continue reading
Harvard first-year, a Native American, promises herself she’ll blaze a trail
October 16, 2018
A profile highlights Eva Ballew, a first-year, a first-generation student, and a Native American from rural northern Wisconsin. Continue reading
Harvard student fights for others while fighting lethal disease
October 15, 2018
Harvard senior Elsie Tellier has responded to her lethal disease with courage, sadness, and compassion. But not bitterness. Continue reading
$100M gift will support sciences and math at Harvard
October 12, 2018
A Harvard alumnus and his wife made a gift of $100 million to support the University’s Science Center, enhance mathematics scholarship, and provide unrestricted resources for the Faculty of Arts and... Continue reading
Du Bois medals honor outstanding contributions in black arts, culture
October 11, 2018
Bestowed by the Hutchins Center for African and African American Research, eight laureates received the W.E.B. Du Bois Medal at Sanders Theatre for their contributions to African and African-American... Continue reading
Joan Reede builds diversity and inclusion into Harvard Medical School’s ethos
October 11, 2018
For almost three decades, Joan Reede has made diversity and inclusion part of Harvard Medical School’s mission. Continue reading
New tool simultaneously senses magnetic fields in various directions
October 11, 2018
In their quest to build a tool that uses atomic-scale impurities in diamonds to sense magnetic fields, a pair of Ph.D. candidates from the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences have developed a method... Continue reading
Min Kahng talks about how he created musical based on manga
October 9, 2018
Composer and writer Min Kahng talks about how he created his musical “Four Immigrants” in advance of his Harvard visit. Continue reading
Lauren Williams gives Math Department a dose of algebraic combinatorics
October 9, 2018
The Gazette sits down with Lauren Williams, the second woman to be tenured in Harvard’s Math Department and the Seaver Professor at the Radcliffe Institute. Continue reading