Where people, places, and experiences come together to shape life at the FAS
Faculty discussed at length proposed changes to the undergraduate grading policy for a final time at Tuesday’s Meeting of the Faculty, a week before voting begins.
The four-day celebration, organized by the Office for the Arts at Harvard, features music, dance, theater performances, visual art exhibits, and hands-on art activities at venues across campus.
The visionary behind “Cats: The Jellicle Ball” was honored in a ceremony celebrating his contributions to the arts.
When Russia invaded her home country of Ukraine in 2022, Anastasiia Pereverten was more than 5,000 miles away, studying at the University of Wyoming. From that distance, she watched a surge of support from Americans who were far removed from the conflict. “All this, so far away from Ukraine?” said Pereverten. “People were so incredibly vocal and supportive, and wanted to know more. I wanted to understand what shaped that.”
The annual award for teaching excellence, which includes a monetary prize, was established three decades ago with a gift from Edward Abramson ’57 in honor of his mother.
A recent event, hosted by the Public Culture Project, emphasized the real-world benefits of arts and humanities for unhoused and incarcerated populations.
Awards for excellence in undergraduate teaching announced by FAS Dean Hopi Hoekstra at the May Meeting of the Faculty.
With sharp words about U.S. global affairs, Scholz emphasized social justice as the way to earn back the trust of the international community.
The Classroom Social Compact report provided detailed blueprints for creating “a transformative educational experience.”
A recent event, hosted by the Edmond & Lily Safra Center for Ethics, interrogated the technology’s role in human relationships.
Find Jiani Johnson’s fifth-grade yearbook, and you’ll find a surprising response to the question of what she wanted to be when she grows up: a bioengineer. She liked tinkering and building things, and she always wanted to help people, making bioengineering the ideal interdisciplinary collaboration.
Henry Louis Gates Jr. was awarded the 2026 Thomas Jefferson Foundation Medal, a recognition for public figures who excel at pursuits held in high regard by the founding father.
Researchers detail connections between mid-20th-century America’s drug culture and covert CIA experiments
Retelling 11-month occupation as America readies to celebrate its 250th