Faculty
Ethnicity, Migration, Rights Committee Forms Human Rights Group
The Committee on Ethnicity, Migration, Rights recently selected 13 students to participate in the inaugural Human Rights Studies Working Group, which will expose students to opportunities and resources related to human rights.
More than 100 Harvard Faculty Signed Petition to Support Strike
Over the past several weeks, Harvard faculty have shown their support for striking dining hall workers, bringing their classes to the picket lines and signing a petition calling on Harvard to reach an agreement with its employees.
You Speak What?
Within the classrooms of Harvard’s smallest language classes, a wide mix of people work to grasp the unfamiliar sounds and systems of a language that few of their classmates will ever understand.
Demand for Student Admission Files Created ‘Significant Administrative Burden’
The Faculty of Arts and Sciences’ Registrar’s Office has dedicated a single person to respond to substantial demand from students requesting to view their admissions files.
Discussions of Dining Strike Enter the Classroom
Professors are purchasing pizza to feed students and weaving discussions of the historic strike into course lectures.
Fungi Fair Sprouts with Student Projects
Mushrooms overtook the Harvard Museum of Natural History on Saturday afternoon.
Professors Criticize Political Rhetoric Following Presidential Town Hall
Following the heated Presidential town hall debate on Sunday, some Harvard professors expressed concern that the 2016 Presidential campaign has set new standards for norms of aggression and deception.
Faculty Weigh in on History as Depicted in ‘Hamilton’
Professor of history and law Annette Gordon-Reed has criticized the musical’s depiction of America’s founding narrative as historical truth.
SEAS Finalizes List of Academic Areas Moving to Allston
Four teaching areas as well as the soft materials and robotics units make up the final list of groups that will move to Allston.
In University Hall, Harvard Celebrates Nobel Prize Winner Oliver Hart
Clinking champagne glasses reverberated around University Hall’s Faculty Room as Economics professor Oliver Hart’s colleagues, friends, and family gathered Tuesday afternoon to celebrate his Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences.
Harvard Economics Professor Oliver Hart Wins Joint Nobel Prize
Economics professor Oliver Hart became the most recent in a long line of Harvard faculty members to earn the Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences, receiving the award in conjunction with MIT professor Bengt Holmström “for their contributions to contract theory."
Hutchins Funds $10 Million to Study Inequality Among Boston's Black Residents
The Hutchins Center for African and African American Research received $10 million for a new study of inequality experienced by African and African American residents in Boston’s poorer neighborhoods.
Final Clubs, Greek Orgs. Remain Waiting on Faculty Motion
Following the delay on discussion of a Faculty motion that could spell trouble for a new College policy, Harvard’s single-gender final clubs have settled into a familiar activity: playing the waiting game.
FAS Holds Meetings for Faculty to Discuss Graduate Student Unionization
Responding to suggestions from the Faculty Council, the Faculty of Arts and Sciences is hosting town hall sessions for professors, administrators, and the University’s labor representatives to discuss graduate student unionization.
FAS Pitches Fundraising for Social Life
The Faculty of Arts and Sciences has made undergraduate life one of its priorities in its capital campaign fundraising, according to FAS Dean Michael D. Smith.
FAS Reserves Dwindling, Dean Says
Cash reserves for Harvard’s flagship Faculty have dwindled to “effectively zero,” Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences Michael D. Smith said at a meeting of the body Tuesday.
Faculty Will Not Discuss Final Club Motion at Tuesday’s Meeting
The Faculty of Arts and Sciences will wait another month to discuss a motion opposing the College’s policy penalizing members of unrecognized single gender social organizations, according to computer science professor Harry R. Lewis '68.
UC Leaders Present to Faculty Council on Final Club, Greek Org. Sanctions
Undergraduate Council President Shaiba Rather ’17 and Vice President Daniel V. Banks ’17 fielded questions about campus discussions regarding final clubs and Greek organizations.
Anti-Human Trafficking Coalition Sponsors Research Position
A group of undergraduate and graduate students advocating an end to human trafficking and forced labor is teaming up with the Kennedy School to support a research analyst position that will study Harvard’s supply chain labor practices.
Sunstein's Star Wars
Professor Cass R. Sunstein ’75 lectures on his new book, “The World According to Star Wars," which explores unanticipated movements in law, business, culture, and politics through a Star Wars lens.
Faculty Offer Guidance on Being 'Out' in Academia
The panel comes in response to GSAS students’ calls for discussions about managing academic life while identifying as queer.
Pluralism Project Celebrates 25 Years of Researching Religious Diversity
Founded by professor Diana L. Eck, the organization marked its milestone with three days of panels and discussions last week.
Professors' Kids Explain What Their Parents Do
Fifteen Minutes Magazine asked the children of Harvard professors what their parents do.
Stephen L. Carter Argues Slavery’s Effects on the Law
Yale Law School Professor Stephen L. Carter argued the relevance of slavery in the United States by addressing its impact on the law in the first installment of his W.E.B. Du Bois Lecture Series on Tuesday.
Knife-fighting and Cardboard Bazookas: A Conversation with Matthew Hersch
On the first day of class Hersch demonstrated how one might load a musket while riding a horse.