Outline of Harvard University explained

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

• 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 University"http://www.malegislature.gov/Laws/Constitution#cp25s00.htm

Faculties (schools)

• 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.

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

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 Art Museums
• Peabody Museum

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

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

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)
  • University Asks That Harvard Pilgrim Trademark Case Be Heard in Federal
• 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

Shields

See also

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

Notes and References

1. Book: Frederick . Rudolph . The American College and University . 1961 . 3 . 0-8203-1285-1 . University of Georgia Press.