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[1] and the first corporation (officially The President and Fellows of Harvard College) chartered in the country.

Governing structure

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 University"

Faculties (schools)

Campuses

People affiliated with Harvard University
  • John Harvard

Alumni
By nationality
By occupation
By school

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.

Sports

Events and activities

Buildings and structures

Libraries

Museums

Associated organizations

Affiliated hospitals

Media and publications

Research centers

Other

Miscellaneous
  • 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

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See also

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