The Hutchins Center for African and African American Research has named its 2026 cohort of W.E.B. Du Bois Medalists, including actress Angela Bassett, humanitarian and soccer legend Didier Drogba, and five-time Grammy-winning singer Mavis Staples.
The singer-songwriter, who recently released a concept album threaded with AI skepticism, appeared with two Harvard-affiliated researchers on the Singing for Science podcast.
The incoming professor of English’s fourth novel, “Beginning Middle End,” follows a mother and her 12-year-old daughter as they travel to Sicily, where the duo is figuring out how to reconstruct their lives amid their encounters with the island’s daily life, its winds, waters, and volcanoes.
What happens when a healer, working in a plague-stricken medieval village, falls in love with Death himself? Moviegoers can soon find out when a black-comedy romance, which began as a Harvard College student production, lands on the big screen. “Death Do Us Part,” co-directed by Abigail Ory ’21 and David Chávez-Grant ’21, premieres at the Rhode Island International Film Festival August 9.
When David Bakalar first set foot at Harvard, he was a 17-year-old child of immigrants commuting by bus from Lynn, Mass., 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’