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28 unusual facts about Harvard University


Allen Shawn

He received a bachelor's degree from Harvard University, a Masters degree from Columbia University, and studied in France with Nadia Boulanger.

Arthur Korb

He attended Harvard UniversityMaster of Arts there.

Caroline D. Bradley Scholarship

In 2012, the college with the largest number of previous Caroline D. Bradley Scholarship winners currently enrolled as undergraduates is Harvard University.

Charles Edward Munroe

He was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts and studied at the Lawrence scientific school of Harvard, graduating in 1871.

Charles H. Munro

He was born in West River, Pictou County, Nova Scotia, the son of William Munro and Helen Henderson, and educated at Harvard University.

Domestic terrorism in the United States

From 1978 to 1995, Harvard University graduate and former mathematics professor Theodore "Ted" Kaczynski – known by the codename "UNABOM" until his identification and arrest by the FBI – carried out a campaign of sending letterbombs to academics and various individuals particularly associated with modern technology.

Fred Moseley

Moseley was named an All-American ice hockey while at Harvard University in 1934.

Frederick Hovey

Hovey won the NCAA men's singles championship in 1890 while attending Harvard University.

George W. Comstock

He graduated from Antioch College in 1937 with honors in biology and chemistry and obtained his medical degree from Harvard in 1941.

Hervey White

A scholarship to Harvard University, where he read the works of the socially-conscious art critic John Ruskin (1819–1900), solidified his burgeoning libertarian ideals.

Homo Academicus

The program features 4 Harvard University students who travel the world visiting culturally historic areas and places of learning.

Irvine Bulloch

Filled with his mother and uncle's stories, by the time T.R. went to Harvard, he was already dreaming of writing a book on a neglected aspect of American Military History, role played by the US Navy during the War of 1812.

James W. Bryce

In 1937 Bryce was approached by Howard Aiken of Harvard University, who persuaded IBM to fund a programmable calculator which became the Automatic Sequence Controlled Calculator (ASCC), better known as the Harvard Mark I.

Jean Arp

In 1950, he was invited to execute a relief for the Harvard University Graduate Center in Cambridge, Massachusetts and would also be commissioned to do a mural at the UNESCO building in Paris.

Julia Randall

She attended both Johns Hopkins Medical School and Harvard University but found that medicine and teaching did not leave her enough time to write poetry.

Ken W. Clawson

He became a labor reporter for the Toledo Blade newspaper, and was honored for his work there, winning a Nieman Fellowship to attend Harvard University in 1967.

Michael Row the Boat Ashore

Charles Pickard Ware, an abolitionist and Harvard graduate who had come to supervise the plantations on St. Helena Island from 1862 to 1865, wrote the song down in music notation as he heard the freedmen sing it.

Morton Halperin

He served in the Johnson, Nixon, and Clinton administrations and in a number of roles with think tanks and universities such as the Council on Foreign Relations and Harvard University.

The appointment of Halperin, a colleague of Kissinger's at Harvard University in the 1960s, was immediately criticized by General Earle G. Wheeler, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff; FBI director J. Edgar Hoover; and Senator Barry Goldwater.

Nathaniel Appleton

He was educated at Harvard, taking his degree in 1712, studied theology, and was ordained on 9 October 1717, succeeding William Brattle as Congregational minister.

Peter Bruner

Peter Bruner's autobiography included in the "entries in print edition" of the African American National Biography published in January 2008 as a joint project of the W. E. B. Du Bois Institute for African and African American Research at Harvard University and Oxford University Press.

Posen Foundation

An academic advisory board reviews grant applications, which have included universities such as Harvard University, Brown University, Brandeis University, and The New School.

Sidney Spivak

Spivak was born to Jewish parents, Malick and Rose Spivak, in Winnipeg, and was educated at the University of Manitoba and Harvard University.

Thomas Chrostwaite

A native of Ashley Borough, Mr. Chrostwaite was an 1898 graduate of Harvard University and went on to serve as a school administrator for several years in Luzerne County, Pennsylvania.

TRO Jung Brannen

Harvard University School of Dental Medicine Faculty Practice Clinic, Cambridge, Massachusetts

Viola S. Wendt

She secured a position as a graduate student in English at Radcliffe College (now part of Harvard University) in Cambridge, Massachusetts, after receiving her B.A. degree from the University of Wisconsin in 1928.

William L. Slayton House

In 1948, he wanted to become the patron of "the greatest unknown architect in the country", so he consulted with Nelson Rockefeller and embarked on a search which ended in his hiring I.M. Pei, who was then an assistant professor at Harvard University.

William W. Warren

Born in Brighton (now a part of Boston), Massachusetts, Warren pursued classical studies, and was graduated from Harvard University in 1856.


4776 Luyi

4776 Luyi (1975 VD) is a main-belt asteroid discovered on November 3, 1975 by Harvard University researchers at the Harvard College Observatory.The asteroid is named for a town in the eastern Henan province of China that was the birthplace of Laotze, founder of Taoism.

A History of All Nations from the Earliest Times

Harvard University professor John Henry Wright was the editor and translator, while authors included Charles McLean Andrews, John Fiske, Heinrich Theodor Flathe, Gustav Hertzberg, Ferdinand Justi, Julius von Pflugk-Harttung, Martin Philippson, Hans Prutz, and Frederick Wells Williams.

Alfred Rehder

Alfred Rehder (4 September 1863, Waldenburg, Saxony - 25 July 1949) was a horticulturist and taxonomist who worked at the Arnold Arboretum of Harvard University.

Alice Goodman

She was educated at Harvard University and Cambridge where she studied English and American literature.

Carmen A. Puliafito

These new appointees have been recruited from institutions such as Harvard, Johns Hopkins, Vanderbilt and the Cleveland Clinic as the result of national searches.

Catherine Cesarsky

She graduated with a PhD in Astronomy in 1971 from Harvard University (Cambridge, Mass., USA), and for several years worked at the California Institute of Technology.

Cluny Abbey

Modern excavations of the Abbey began in 1927 under the direction of Kenneth John Conant, American architectural historian of Harvard University, and continued (although not continuously) until 1950.

Dominique Moïsi

He was a co-founder and is a senior advisor of the Paris-based Institut Français des Relations Internationales (IFRI), Pierre Keller Visiting Professor at Harvard University, and the chairholder for Geopolitics at the College of Europe, the oldest educational institution in European affairs, in Natolin.

E. T. Klassen

Klassen never attended college; his only formal education beyond high school was advanced management training at Harvard University in 1954.

Felipe Osterling

In 1966 he attended as a visiting professor at the Universities of Notre Dame, Harvard, Georgetown, Columbia and New York.

Galaxie 500

Guitarist Dean Wareham, drummer Damon Krukowski and bassist Naomi Yang had met at the Dalton School in New York City in 1981, but began playing together during their time as students at Harvard University.

George D. Birkhoff House

The house is notable for its associations with former resident Dr. George David Birkhoff, an eminent mathematician and Harvard University professor.

Harvey N. Middleton

Middleton took short courses for additional training at Harvard University; the University of London, England; the University of Michigan; Indiana University; and Michael Reese Hospital in Chicago.

Intercollegiate Taiwanese American Students Association

In 1998, Taiwanese American students at Harvard University, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and Tufts University established the Boston Intercollegiate Taiwanese Students Association (BITSA) to serve the many campuses in the Boston area.

Jaipur School

Students have gone on to join Harvard University, University of Chicago, Cardiff University, Indian Institutes of Technology, National Defence Academy (India), and other engineering, medical, defence, liberal arts and business management programs.

James Fitzmaurice-Kelly

He was a Taylor Lecturer at Oxford University from 1902 and was invited to the United States in 1907 to deliver speeches at the Hispanic Society of America and several American Universities such as Harvard University and Yale University.

Jeff Sheng

Sheng attended Harvard University and studied under the mentorship of British photographer and Harvard professor Chris Killip in the Visual and Environmental Studies Department.

Jillian York

In 2008, she joined the Berkman Center for Internet & Society, a research center at Harvard University that focuses on the study of cyberspace, where she worked on the OpenNet Initiative, a joint project whose goal is to monitor and report on internet filtering and surveillance practices by nations, and Herdict, and conducted research on distributed denial-of-service attacks.

John A. Denison

Denison graduated with honors from Springfield High School and, like his father, attended Harvard University where he received his undergraduate degree in 1898 and his law degree in 1901.

John Adams Whipple

Between 1847 and 1852 Whipple and astronomer William Cranch Bond, director of the Harvard College Observatory, used Harvard's Great Refractor telescope to produce images of the moon that are remarkable in their clarity of detail and aesthetic power.

John E. Leonard

Leonard attended the public schools and was later graduated from Phillips Exeter Academy, Exeter, New Hampshire in 1863 and then earned a law degree from Harvard University in 1867.

Josiah Whitney

Josiah Dwight Whitney (1819–1896) was an American geologist, professor of geology at Harvard University (from 1865), and chief of the California Geological Survey (1860–1874).

Jussi Hanhimäki

As well as his work at the Graduate Institute of International Studies, Hanhimäki has held Visiting Fellowships at LSE IDEAS, the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, and Harvard University.

La Pietra

He earned a bachelor of arts degree from Carroll College in Waukesha, Wis., and a master's of education degree from Harvard University.

Le dernier sorcier

The work was largely forgotten until January 2005 when the University of Calgary staged its North American premiere using the French libretto and the version of the score for chamber orchestra that had been used at the 1869 gala performance in the Théâtre du Thiergarten, which Žekulin reconstructed from Viardot's papers at Harvard University.

Leland Stowe

In addition to the Pulitzer Prize, Stowe also received the Légion d'honneur, the Military Cross of Greece, and honorary degrees from Harvard University, Wesleyan, and Hobart College, amongst other honors.

M. Lee Pelton

Pelton also holds, or has held, positions on several educational boards and committees: the American Council on Education, the Harvard University Board of Overseers, the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, the Oregon Symphony, Oregon Health & Science University Foundation, American Association for Higher Education, National Association of Independent Colleges and Universities, and National Collegiate Athletic Association among others.

Machon Yaakov

Machon Yaakov students represent such universities as Harvard University, University of Pennsylvania, University of Chicago, Cornell University, University of Michigan, Northwestern University, Rutgers University, University of Maryland, Cambridge, the London School of Economics, UCLA, and many others.

Marie Mendras

Marie Mendras was educated at the University of Essex, Sciences-Po University and Institut des Langues et Civilisations Orientales in Paris, SAIS-Johns Hopkins University, and Harvard University.

Michael Devitt

In addition to his tenured or tenure-track positions, Michael Devitt has held numerous non-tenured positions at the University of Nottingham, Macquarie University, Australian National University, Victoria University of Wellington, University of Michigan, University of Southern California, Tokyo Metropolitan University, Harvard University, and Sydney University’s Women’s College.

Michael J. Kurtz

Michael J Kurtz is an astrophysicist at Harvard University, He has held the title of Astronomer at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics since 1983, and the addition post of Computer Scientist at the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory since 1984.

Mischer Neuroscience Institute

His internship at Harvard University was followed by residency at UCSF and fellowship in cerebrovascular surgery and skull base tumors at University of Florida.

National Competitiveness Report of Armenia

The first ACR was published in 2008; the preface for the report was written by Armenia’s Minister of Economy, Nerses Yeritsyan, and Harvard University Professor, Michael E. Porter, a leading authority on competitive strategy and international competitiveness.

Nonie Darwish

She has spoken on numerous college campuses including Harvard, Yale, Columbia, Princeton, Brown, Tufts, Hebrew University in Jerusalem, Oxford, Cornell, UCLA, NYU, Virginia Tech, Pepperdine, UC Berkeley and several others.

Oksana Antonenko

Antonenko holds degrees from Moscow State University in Political Economy and Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government (USA) MPP in International Affairs and Security.

Patrick Harlan

A native of Colorado Springs, Colorado and a graduate of Harvard University with a degree in comparative religion, Harlan first came to Japan on a tour with the Harvard Glee Club in 1993.

Peter Chen

Born in Taichung, Taiwan, Peter Chen received a B.S. in electrical engineering in 1968 at the National Taiwan University, and a Ph.D. in computer science/applied mathematics at the Harvard University in 1973.

Precordial thump

James E. Pennington and Bernard Lown's cardiology group at Harvard University are credited with formalizing this technique in the medical literature.

Ramon Magsaysay, Jr.

He pursued post-graduate studies in 1962 at Harvard School of Business Administration in Boston, Massachusetts, and spent another year in New York University Graduate School of Business Administration.

Roger Sherman Greene II

Two of their other children achieved prominence, Evarts Boutell as an American historian at Columbia and Jerome Davis Greene as a foundation administrator, banker, and secretary of the Corporation of Harvard University.

Sameh El-Saharty

He graduated from Cairo University School of Medicine in 1982 and received a Master of Sciences in Public Health from the Military Medical Academy in Egypt in 1988, a Certificate in Business Administration from the American University in Cairo in 1988, and Master of Public Health in International Health Policy and Management from Harvard University in 1991.

Social Science Japan Journal

SSJJ’s editorial board is located at the Institute of Social Science, the University of Tokyo, and supported by the international advisory board members including Andrew Gordon (Harvard University), Carol Gluck (Columbia University), Jomo Kwame Sundaram (United Nations), and J. Victor Koschmann (Cornell University).

The Economics of Innocent Fraud

The Economics of Innocent Fraud: Truth for Our Time (2004, Houghton Mifflin) was Harvard Economist John Kenneth Galbraith's final published book.

Theodore W. Richards House

The house was built in 1900 by Warren, Smith & Biscoe and was the home of Harvard University chemist and 1914 Nobel Prize winner, Theodore William Richards.

Thom Mayne

He has held teaching positions at many institutions including Columbia University, Harvard University, Yale University, the Berlage Institute in the Netherlands and the Bartlett School of Architecture in London.

University of Nashville

Lindsley, along with George Ticknor at Harvard, Jacob Abbott at Amherst, and James Marsh at the University of Vermont, was considered one of the leading educational reformers of the era.

William Augustus Hinton

He was the first black professor in the history of Harvard University.