Outline of Harvard University

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This outline is provided as an overview of, and topical guide to Harvard University:

Harvard Universityprivate Ivy League university located in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States, established in 1636 by the Massachusetts legislature. Harvard is the oldest institution of higher learning in the United States[1] and the first corporation (officially The President and Fellows of Harvard College) chartered in the country.

Governing structure[edit]

Departments[edit]

  • Financial Administration
  • Campus Services
  • Health Services
  • Human Resources
  • Information Technology (HUIT)
  • Planning and Project Management
  • Office of the General Counsel
  • Public Affairs & Communications
  • Alumni Affairs & Development

History[edit]

History of Harvard University

  • The Commonwealth of Massachusetts Constitution
    • Chapter V. "THE UNIVERSITY AT CAMBRIDGE, AND ENCOURAGEMENT OF LITERATURE, ETC.
      • Section 1. The University"[1]

Faculties (schools)[edit]

Campuses[edit]

People affiliated with Harvard University[edit]

  • John Harvard

Alumni[edit]

By nationality
By occupation
By school

Faculty[edit]

Harvard's faculty includes numerous renowned scholars including: (biologists) E. O. Wilson and William Kaelin; (biophysicists) Adam Cohen and Xiaowei Zhuang; (physicists) Lisa Randall, Subir Sachdev, and Howard Georgi; (astrophysicists) Alyssa A. Goodman and John M. Kovac; (mathematicians) Shing-Tung Yau and Joe Harris; (computer scientists) Michael O. Rabin and Leslie Valiant; (chemists) Elias Corey, Dudley R. Herschbach, and George M. Whitesides; (literary critics) Helen Vendler, Stephen Greenblatt, Louis Menand, and Stephanie Burt; (composers) Robert D. Levin and Bernard Rands; (lawyers) Alan Dershowitz and Lawrence Lessig; (historians) Henry Louis Gates Jr. and Niall Ferguson, (psychologists) Steven Pinker and Daniel Gilbert; (economists) Amartya Sen, Greg Mankiw, Robert Barro, Stephen Marglin, Jason Furman, Michael Kremer, Oliver Hart, Raj Chetty, Lawrence Summers, and Eric Maskin; (philosophers) Harvey Mansfield, Shirley Williams, Cornel West, and Michael Sandel; (political scientists) Robert Putnam, Steven Levitsky, Danielle Allen, and Joseph Nye.

Past faculty members included: Stephen Jay Gould, Robert Nozick, Stephan Thernstrom, Sanford J. Ungar, Michael Walzer, Martin Feldstein, Roy Glauber, and Stanley Hoffmann.

Fellows[edit]

Honorees[edit]

Sports[edit]

Events and activities[edit]

Buildings and structures[edit]

Athletics facilities[edit]

Housing[edit]

Libraries[edit]

Museums[edit]

Public art[edit]

Associated organizations[edit]

Affiliated hospitals[edit]

Alumni organizations[edit]

Media and publications[edit]

Student organizations[edit]

Research centers[edit]

Other[edit]

Miscellaneous[edit]

  • Archival depository at Harvard University
  • Crimson
  • Employment at Harvard University
  • Online learning at Harvard University
  • Harvard mascot(s)
  • Harvard (name)
  • Harvard (trademark)
  • Harvard University and the ROTC
  • Harvard University fifty-year plan
  • Harvard University admissions and enrollment
  • Harvard University criticism and controversies
    • The John Harvard statue controversy
    • Gender at Harvard University
    • Ethnicity at Harvard University
  • Harvard University endowments
  • Harvard University sponsorship
  • Harvard University Health Services
  • Internet2
  • Protests at Harvard University
  • Rankings for Harvard University
  • School dress at Harvard University

Images[edit]

Art at Harvard University[edit]

Buildings and structures[edit]

Maps[edit]

Logos[edit]

Shields[edit]

See also[edit]

References[edit]

  1. ^ Rudolph, Frederick (1961). The American College and University. University of Georgia Press. p. 3. ISBN 0-8203-1285-1.

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