Outline of Harvard University

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

Harvard University – private 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 and the first corporation (officially ''The President and Fellows of Harvard College'') chartered in the country.

Governing structure

*The President and Fellows of Harvard College ("Harvard Corporation")
** Office of the President
** Fellows
*Harvard Board of Overseers
**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
*The Commonwealth of Massachusetts Constitution
**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
** School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (formerly Division)
** Graduate School of Arts and Sciences
** Division of Continuing Education
*** Summer School
***Extension School
* Faculty of Business
**Harvard Business Publishing
* Faculty of Design
* Faculty of Divinity
* Faculty of Education
* Faculty of Government
* Faculty of Law
*Faculty of Public Health
* Faculty of Medicine
** School of Dental Medicine

Campuses

*Boston-Allston
**Campus of the Harvard Business School
** Barry's Corner
*Boston--Longwood Medical Area
**Campus of the Harvard Medical School
*Boston—Jamaica Plain
** Arnold Arboretum
*Cambridge-Harvard Square
** Harvard Houses Historic District
**Harvard Yard
**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
*List of Harvard Divinity School alumni
* 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

;*Baseball team
;*Basketball: Men's / Women's teams
;*Crew teams.
;*Fencing 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

Buildings and structures

Athletics facilities

Housing

Libraries

* Baker Library
* Countway Center for the History of Medicine
*Gutman Library
*Houghton Library
* Lamont Library
* Quad Library
*Widener Library

Museums

* Arnold Arboretum – Jamaica Plain/Roslindale
* Harvard Forest – Petersham, MA
*Harvard Museum of Natural History
*Harvard University Art Museums
* Peabody Museum

Public art

Associated organizations

Affiliated hospitals

*Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
*Boston Children's Hospital
* Brigham and Women's Hospital
*Cambridge Hospital
*Dana–Farber Cancer Institute
*Joslin Diabetes Center
* Massachusetts General Hospital
* Massachusetts Eye and Ear
* Schepens Eye Research Institute

Alumni organizations

Media and publications

*''The Harvard Crimson''
*''Harvard Business Review''
*''Harvard Educational Review''
*'' Harvard Law Review''
*Radio broadcasting
**WHRB
*Television broadcasting
**Harvard Undergraduate Television (HUTV), ''formerly Harvard-Radcliffe Television''
*** Ivory Tower (Harvard Undergraduate Television)
* Harvard Internet broadcasts

Student organizations

Research centers

* Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute

Other

*Ivy League
*Harvard/MIT Cooperative Society
* 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

*List of colleges and universities in the United States by endowment
* Index of Harvard University-related articles

References

External links

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