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Harvard University Harvard University is a private Ivy League research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Founded in 1636 as Harvard College and named for its first benefactor, the Puritan clergyman John Harvard, it is the oldest institution of high ...
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located in
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. Harvard is the oldest institution of higher learning in the United States and the first
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(officially ''The President and Fellows of Harvard College'') chartered in the country.


Governing structure

*The
President and Fellows of Harvard College The President and Fellows of Harvard College (also called the Harvard Corporation or just the Corporation) is the smaller and more powerful of Harvard University's two governing boards, and is now the oldest corporation in America. Together with ...
("Harvard Corporation") ** Office of the President ** Fellows *
Harvard Board of Overseers The Harvard Board of Overseers (more formally The Honorable and Reverend the Board of Overseers) is one of Harvard University's two governing boards. Although its function is more consultative and less hands-on than the President and Fellows of Harv ...
**Secretary **Treasurer *** Harvard University endowment *University Marshall * Memorial Church *Office of the Provost **University Library *Executive Vice President


Departments

*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

History of Harvard University Harvard College, around which Harvard University eventually grew, was founded in 1636 in Cambridge, Massachusetts, making it the oldest institution of higher learning in the United States. For centuries, its graduates dominated Massachusetts' cle ...
*The Commonwealth of
Massachusetts Constitution The Constitution of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts is the fundamental governing document of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, one of the 50 individual state governments that make up the United States of America. As a member of the Massachuset ...
**Chapter V. "THE UNIVERSITY AT CAMBRIDGE, AND ENCOURAGEMENT OF LITERATURE, ETC. ***Section 1. The Universit


Faculties (schools)

* Harvard Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, Faculty of Arts and Sciences **
Harvard College Harvard College is the undergraduate college of Harvard University, an Ivy League research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Founded in 1636, Harvard College is the original school of Harvard University, the oldest institution of higher lea ...
** School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (formerly Division) ** Graduate School of Arts and Sciences ** Division of Continuing Education *** Summer School ***
Extension School Continuing education (similar to further education in the United Kingdom and Ireland) is an all-encompassing term within a broad list of post-secondary learning activities and programs. The term is used mainly in the United States and Canada. ...
* Faculty of Business **
Harvard Business Publishing Harvard Business Publishing was founded in 1994 as a not-for-profit, wholly owned subsidiary of Harvard University (distinct from Harvard University Press), with a focus on improving business management practices. The company consists of three ...
* Faculty of Design * Faculty of Divinity * Faculty of Education * Faculty of Government * Faculty of Law *
Faculty of Public Health The Faculty of Public Health (FPH) is a public health association in the United Kingdom established as a registered charity. It is the standard setting body for public health specialists within the United Kingdom, setting standards for training ...
* Faculty of Medicine ** School of Dental Medicine


Campuses

*Boston-Allston **Campus of the Harvard Business School ** Barry's Corner *Boston--
Longwood Medical Area The Longwood Medical and Academic Area (also known as Longwood Medical Area, LMA, or simply Longwood) is a medical campus in Boston, Massachusetts. Flanking Longwood Avenue, LMA is adjacent to the Fenway–Kenmore, Audubon Circle, and Mission ...
**Campus of the Harvard Medical School *Boston—Jamaica Plain ** Arnold Arboretum *Cambridge-Harvard Square ** Harvard Houses Historic District **
Harvard Yard Harvard Yard, in Cambridge, Massachusetts, is the oldest part of the Harvard University campus, its historic center and modern crossroads. It contains most of the freshman dormitories, Harvard's most important libraries, Memorial Church, sever ...
**Campus of the Harvard Divinity School **Campus of the Harvard Law School **Campus of Radcliffe College *** Radcliffe Quadrangle *** Radcliffe Yard ** Center for Astrophysics Harvard & Smithsonian *Petersham ** Harvard Forest


People affiliated with Harvard University

*John Harvard


Alumni

* List of Harvard University non-graduate alumni ;By nationality ;By occupation ;By school *
List of Harvard Business School alumni A ''list'' is any set of items in a row. List or lists may also refer to: People * List (surname) Organizations * List College, an undergraduate division of the Jewish Theological Seminary of America * SC Germania List, German rugby unio ...
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List of Harvard Divinity School alumni A ''list'' is any set of items in a row. List or lists may also refer to: People * List (surname) Organizations * List College, an undergraduate division of the Jewish Theological Seminary of America * SC Germania List, German rugby unio ...
* List of Harvard Law School alumni


Faculty

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


Honorees


Sports

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Baseball Baseball is a bat-and-ball sport played between two teams of nine players each, taking turns batting and fielding. The game occurs over the course of several plays, with each play generally beginning when a player on the fielding t ...
team ;*Basketball: Men's / Women's teams ;*Crew teams. ;*
Fencing Fencing is a group of three related combat sports. The three disciplines in modern fencing are the foil, the épée, and the sabre (also ''saber''); winning points are made through the weapon's contact with an opponent. A fourth discipline, ...
team ;* Football team ;*Lacrosse: Men's / Women's teams ;*Rowing team ;*Tennis team ;*Volleyball: Men's / Women's teams ;*Wrestling team


Events and activities

* Harvard–Radcliffe Women's Leadership Project *Head of the Charles Regatta *Primal Scream *Tours of Harvard University *Traditions of Harvard University *
History and traditions of Harvard commencements What was originally called ' (around which Harvard University eventually grew) held its first Commencement in September 1642, when nine degrees were conferred. Today some 1700 undergraduate degrees, and 5000 advanced degrees from the university ...


Buildings and structures


Athletics facilities


Housing


Libraries

* Baker Library * Countway Center for the History of Medicine *
Gutman Library Gutman is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: * Alberto Gutman (born 1959), American politician * Albin Gutman (born 1947), Slovene general * Alexander Gutman (born 1945), Russian film director * Amy Gutman (born 1960), American nov ...
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Houghton Library Houghton Library, on the south side of Harvard Yard adjacent to Widener Library, is Harvard University's primary repository for rare books and manuscripts. It is part of the Harvard College Library, the library system of Harvard's Faculty of ...
* Lamont Library * Quad Library *
Widener Library The Harry Elkins Widener Memorial Library, housing some 3.5million books in its "vast and cavernous" stacks, is the centerpiece of the Harvard College Libraries (the libraries of Harvard's Faculty of Arts and Sciences) and, more broadly, of the ...


Museums

* Arnold Arboretum – Jamaica Plain/Roslindale * Harvard Forest – Petersham, MA *
Harvard Museum of Natural History The Harvard Museum of Natural History is a natural history museum housed in the University Museum Building, located on the campus of Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts. It features 16 galleries with 12,000 speciments drawn from the col ...
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Harvard University Art Museums The Harvard Art Museums are part of Harvard University and comprise three museums: the Fogg Museum (established in 1895), the Busch-Reisinger Museum (established in 1903), and the Arthur M. Sackler Museum (established in 1985), and four research ...
* Peabody Museum


Public art


Associated organizations


Affiliated hospitals

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Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC) in Boston, Massachusetts is a teaching hospital of Harvard Medical School. It was formed out of the 1996 merger of Beth Israel Hospital (founded in 1916) and New England Deaconess Hospital (founded ...
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Boston Children's Hospital Boston Children's Hospital formerly known as Children's Hospital Boston until 2012 is a nationally ranked, freestanding acute care children's hospital located in Boston, Massachusetts, adjacent both to its teaching affiliate, Harvard Medical Scho ...
* Brigham and Women's Hospital *
Cambridge Hospital Cambridge Hospital is a community teaching hospital located in Cambridge, Massachusetts. It is one of three hospitals that are parts of Cambridge Health Alliance. Services The main Cambridge Hospital campus has a wide variety of health services ...
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Dana–Farber Cancer Institute Dana–Farber Cancer Institute is a comprehensive cancer treatment and research institution in Boston, Massachusetts. Dana–Farber is the founding member of Dana–Farber/Harvard Cancer Center, Harvard's Comprehensive Cancer Center designated by ...
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Joslin Diabetes Center Joslin Diabetes Center is the world's largest diabetes research center, diabetes clinic, and provider of diabetes education. It is located in the Longwood Medical and Academic Area in Boston, Massachusetts, United States. Among the Harvard Medica ...
* Massachusetts General Hospital * Massachusetts Eye and Ear * Schepens Eye Research Institute


Alumni organizations


Media and publications

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The Harvard Crimson ''The Harvard Crimson'' is the student newspaper of Harvard University and was founded in 1873. Run entirely by Harvard College undergraduates, it served for many years as the only daily newspaper in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Beginning in the f ...
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Harvard Business Review ''Harvard Business Review'' (''HBR'') is a general management magazine published by Harvard Business Publishing, a wholly owned subsidiary of Harvard University. ''HBR'' is published six times a year and is headquartered in Brighton, Ma ...
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Harvard Educational Review The ''Harvard Educational Review'' is an academic journal of opinion and research dealing with education, associated with the Harvard Graduate School of Education, and published by the Harvard Education Publishing Group. The journal was established ...
'' *'' Harvard Law Review'' *Radio broadcasting **
WHRB WHRB is a commercial FM radio station in Cambridge, Massachusetts. It broadcasts at 95.3 MHz and is operated by students at Harvard College. The station is owned by Harvard Radio Broadcasting Co., Inc., a non-profit corporation independent o ...
*Television broadcasting **
Harvard Undergraduate Television Harvard Undergraduate Television (HUTV) was a Harvard College student television station broadcasting to the Internet between 2009 and 2013. HUTV carried original, student-produced content from eleven shows and from individual Harvard students ...
(HUTV), ''formerly Harvard-Radcliffe Television'' *** Ivory Tower (Harvard Undergraduate Television) * Harvard Internet broadcasts


Student organizations


Research centers

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Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute The Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute (HURI) is a research institute affiliated with Harvard University devoted to Ukrainian studies, including the history, culture, language, literature, and politics of Ukraine. Other areas of study include s ...


Other

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Ivy League The Ivy League is an American collegiate athletic conference comprising eight private research universities in the Northeastern United States. The term ''Ivy League'' is typically used beyond the sports context to refer to the eight school ...
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Harvard/MIT Cooperative Society The Harvard/MIT Cooperative Society (or The Coop, pronounced as a single syllable) is a Cambridge, Massachusetts retail cooperative for the Harvard University and MIT campuses. The general public is encouraged to freely enter and make purchases ...
* Harvard University Employees Credit Union


Miscellaneous

*Archival depository at Harvard University *Crimson *Employment at Harvard University *Online learning at Harvard University *Harvard mascot(s) *Harvard (name) *Harvard (trademark)
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*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


Art at Harvard University


Buildings and structures


Maps


Logos


Shields


See also

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List of colleges and universities in the United States by endowment Many institutions of higher education in the United States maintain financial endowments—sums of money that are invested in stocks, yielding returns that fund a portion of an institution's operational expenses and help ensure it survives in perp ...
* Index of Harvard University-related articles


References


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Harvard University Harvard University is a private Ivy League research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Founded in 1636 as Harvard College and named for its first benefactor, the Puritan clergyman John Harvard, it is the oldest institution of high ...
Harvard University Harvard University is a private Ivy League research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Founded in 1636 as Harvard College and named for its first benefactor, the Puritan clergyman John Harvard, it is the oldest institution of high ...