When David Bakalar first set foot at Harvard, he was a 17-year-old child of immigrants commuting by bus from Lynn, his $500 “nonresident scholarship” covering tuition and a study space at Leverett House but not room and board.
For more than 20 years, the Andrew Carnegie Foundation has marked Independence Day by recognizing a group of naturalized U.S. citizens whose contributions have strengthened the nation.
Why do so many people feel lonely in a world designed for connection? As Ian Corbin sees it, Americans are experiencing a crisis of belonging, which he attributes to some fundamental misunderstandings about what humans need to flourish.
Weiss, professor of the classics and an expert on ancient Greek culture plans, to prioritize the expansion of educational resources.
After spending two years immersed in digitized versions of the Tibetan Buddhist canon for his Harvard Divinity School studies, Sherab Chomphel, M.T.S. ’25, was finally face to face with the centuries-old block prints themselves.
Joyce Chaplin’s “Rewilding Harvard” is reimagining the Harvard landscape.
The honor is given annually to College seniors who demonstrate ‘intellectual adventure’
At Harvard, drummer Raghav Mehrotra ’26 built knowledge about the music industry — and a sizable social media following.
Working with the Harvard Museums of Science & Culture was formative for integrative biology concentrator Lauren Bartel
At Harvard, Francisco Cortes and Owen Guest also shared interest in history and commitment to their athletic regimen
Andrew Bair is set to graduate from Harvard Griffin GSAS in May 2026 with a Ph.D. in anthropology. He talks about his research challenging the accepted chronology of Irish settlement in the Middle Ages, how his study of archaeology and computer science at Columbia led him eventually to Harvard Griffin GSAS, and about growing up in a curious family and literally growing out of his dream of being an astronaut.