Announcing HGSE Dean Search

Dear Colleagues and Friends, As you know, Kathy McCartney will be concluding her service as dean of the Graduate School of Education at the end of the spring term, having been named to become president of Smith College next July. Kathy has led the Ed School with extraordinary energy and effectiveness since 2005. It will…

Death and the Civil War

Corydon Ireland Harvard Staff Writer In a rare on-campus film premiere Tuesday, Harvard screened “Death and the Civil War,” a documentary by Ric Burns, co-producer of the acclaimed 1990 PBS series “The Civil War.” Burns said the new film was inspired by Harvard President Drew Faust’s book “This Republic of Suffering.” The two-hour screening before…

Year-End Message from President Faust

On the Web: Harvard University—The Year in Pictures, 2011-2012 Dear Members of the Harvard Community: Spirits and surroundings were in harmony as we gathered under blue skies for Commencement, marking the close of Harvard’s 375th anniversary with poetry and song.  It was a fitting end to a celebration that began in October with a boisterous,…