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Harvard Yard in the Fall
College

‘Far From Ideal’: Harvard Rhodes Finalists Say Lack of Travel Funding Posed Challenges

Students that spoke to The Crimson said they spent anywhere from $150 to $1,550 out of pocket for transportation, housing, and food during their Rhodes interview trip.

Widener Library
College

Phi Beta Kappa Selects ‘Senior 48’ From Harvard Class of 2025

Forty-eight Harvard College seniors were elected to Harvard’s chapter of Phi Beta Kappa on Wednesday, joining 24 of their classmates who were inducted in the spring to the nation’s oldest and most distinguished academic honor society.

Harvard's U.S. Rhodes Scholarship Winners 2025
College

Six Harvard Students Selected as Rhodes Scholars From US, Canada

Six members of Harvard’s Class of 2025 were selected as American and Canadian Rhodes Scholars to pursue postgraduate studies at the University of Oxford.

Laura Wegner
College

Laura Wegner ’25 Named Rhodes Scholar from Germany

Laura S. Wegner ’25 was announced as one of two German recipients of the Rhodes Scholarship last week, the University’s first from Germany in 10 years.

Phillips Brooks House Association
College

Judy Norsigian ’70 Awarded PBHA Robert Coles ‘Call of Service’ Award

Judith L. Norsigian ’70, who co-founded the women’s health nonprofit Our Bodies, Ourselves, received the Phillips Brooks House Association’s Robert Coles “Call of Service” award on Friday.

Harvard School of Dental Medicine
Research

Harvard Dental School Dean Wins American Dental Association Award for Research

Harvard School of Dental Medicine Dean William V. Giannobile was presented with the American Dental Association’s 2024 Gold Medal Award for Excellence in Dental Research last Friday.

Shahmir Aziz '25
College

Shahmir Aziz ’25 Named Rhodes Scholar From Pakistan

Shahmir Aziz ’25 was selected as one of two Rhodes Scholars from Pakistan this weekend to pursue postgraduate studies at the University of Oxford.

Harvard University Biological Laboratories
Science

The Nobel Laureate Harvard Didn’t Want

On Monday, one Harvard professor was awarded the Nobel Prize in Medicine. But if Victor R. Ambros had not been denied tenure more than three decades earlier, it could have been two.

Gary Ruvkun Nobel Prize Press Conference
Research

Harvard Professor Gary Ruvkun Wins 2024 Nobel Prize in Medicine

Gary B. Ruvkun, a professor of genetics at Harvard Medical School, was awarded the 2024 Nobel Prize in Medicine, the Nobel Committee announced early Monday morning.

Actor LeVar R. Burton Jr. Receives the W.E.B Du Bois Medal
Af Am Department

LeVar Burton, Ice T, Spike Lee Receive Du Bois Medals at Hutchins Center Ceremony

The Hutchins Center for African and African American Research awarded eight individuals, including rapper Ice T and filmmaker Spike Lee, the W.E.B Du Bois Medal at the Hutchins Center Honors in Sanders Theater.

Harvard Medical School
Research

HMS Professor Wins Prestigious Lasker-DeBakey Award for Work on GLP-1

Harvard Medical School professor Joel F. Habener won the 2024 Lasker-DeBakey Clinical Medical Research Award for his work on the glucagon-like peptide-1 (GLP-1), the Lasker Foundation announced last Thursday.

Professor David Charbonneau
FAS

David Charbonneau, Professor in Search of Planets in Outer Space, Wins $1 Million Kavli Prize

Harvard Astrophysics professor David Charbonneau won the 2024 Kavli Prize in Astrophysics in June, sharing a $1 million prize with MIT professor Sara Seager for their discoveries of exoplanets — planets located outside Earth’s solar system.

Sonia Sotomayor Awarded Radcliffe Medal
Radcliffe Institute

Supreme Court Justice Sotomayor Talks Justice, Civic Engagement at Radcliffe Day

Supreme Court Justice Sonia M. Sotomayor discussed the strains of serving on a rightward-shifting court while speaking  at Harvard’s annual Radcliffe Day ceremony, at which she was awarded the 2024 Radcliffe Medal.​​​​​​​

Lowell Gate and Harvard Shield
College

73 Harvard Undergrads Win 2024 Hoopes Prize for Senior Theses

Logan C. Kelly ’24 was in the Winthrop Dining Hall eating lunch with his “oldest friend at Harvard” when he glanced at his phone and saw he had won the Hoopes Prize.

QuOffice
College

Kris King ’24 Named 2024 Harvard Gender and Sexuality Caucus Award Recipient

The Harvard Gender and Sexuality Caucus named Kris King ’24 the recipient of the 2024 HGSC Award.

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