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Harvard University, a private Ivy League university in Cambridge, Massachusetts, was 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.
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This outline is provided as an overview of, and topical guide to Harvard University:
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Governing structure
- The President and Fellows of Harvard College ("Harvard Corporation")
- Harvard Board of Overseers
- Secretary
- Treasurer
- 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
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History
- The Commonwealth of Massachusetts Constitution
Faculties (schools)
Campuses
- Boston-Allston
- Campus of Harvard Business School
- Barry's Corner
- Boston--Longwood Medical and Academic Area
- Campus of Harvard Medical School
- Boston—Jamaica Plain
- Cambridge-Harvard Square
- Harvard Houses Historic District
- Harvard Yard
- Campus of Harvard Divinity School
- Campus of Harvard Law School
- Campus of Radcliffe College
- Radcliffe Quadrangle
- Radcliffe Yard
- Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian
- Petersham
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People affiliated with Harvard University
- John Harvard
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
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Sports
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 Art Museums
- Peabody Museum
Public art
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Associated organizations
Affiliated hospitals
Alumni organizations
Media and publications
- The Harvard Crimson
- Harvard Business Review
- Harvard Educational Review
- Harvard Law Review
- Radio broadcasting
- Television broadcasting
- Harvard Undergraduate Television (HUTV), formerly Harvard-Radcliffe Television
- Harvard Internet broadcasts
Student organizations
Research centers
Other
- Ivy League
- Harvard/MIT Cooperative Society
- Harvard University Employees Credit Union
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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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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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