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Harvard Radcliffe Institute Awards 2023 Fay Prize for Outstanding Theses
Reconstructing sound association in biblical poetics; a study at the intersection of algorithmic fairness, computational complexity, and combinatorics; and an interdisciplinary examination of societal attitudes toward elders represent this year’s exceptional undergraduate scholarship
More about 2023 Fay PrizeHarvard Radcliffe Institute Announces 2023–2024 Fellowship Class
Worldwide cohort brings an array of projects, from exploring the far reaches of space to saving rare frogs.
More about 2023–2024 Fellowship ClassHealthcare and Social Justice Advocate Ophelia Dahl to Receive 2023 Radcliffe Medal
Honoring Her Work Advancing Global Access to Healthcare and Championing the Rights of the Poor
More about Ophelia DahlHarvard Radcliffe Institute Awards 2022 Fay Prize for Outstanding Theses
Latin translations, a celebrated new opera, and a backpack for safer biking represent this year’s exceptional undergraduate scholarship
More about 2022 Fay PrizeHarvard Radcliffe Institute Announces 2022–2023 Fellows
From robotic fish to a novel-in-progress inspired by Amelia Earhart, the 2022–2023 class of fellows will come from 14 countries to pursue an incredible range of important projects.
More about 2022–2023 Fellowship ClassEducator and Civil Rights Attorney Sherrilyn Ifill to Receive 2022 Radcliffe Medal
The Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University announces that the nationally renowned civil rights lawyer, scholar, and public intellectual Sherrilyn Ifill will receive the prestigious Radcliffe Medal this May 27.
More about Sherrilyn IfillHarvard Radcliffe Institute Honors Three Seniors with Highest Distinction
The Institute awarded the Captain Jonathan Fay Prize to three graduating seniors whose theses reflect the most insightful original research and creative work among their class: Alessandra Canta, Frances Hisgen, and Sally O’Keeffe.
More about 2021 Fay PrizeRadcliffe Institute Announces 2021–2022 Fellowship Class
A changed world awaits the 2021–2022 fellows at Harvard Radcliffe Institute. The message of their projects—creative, far-reaching, and bold—is a shared ambition to make it better.
More about 2021–2022 Fellowship ClassRadcliffe Institute Announces 2020–2021 Fellowship Class
The incoming class includes a cartoonist developing a health care–themed comic book; an astronomer interrogating the mysteries of cosmic acceleration; and a poet whose new collection will elevate the experiences of black women.
More about 2020–2021 Fellowship ClassRadcliffe Institute Awards 2020 Fay Prize for Outstanding Theses
Alejandro Ruben Quintana, Chinmay Sonawane, and Adele Woodmansee recognized for their exceptional undergraduate work in the classics, integrative biology, and social anthropology, respectively
More about 2020 Fay PrizeDario Robleto’s Unknown and Solitary Seas Opens at Radcliffe Institute on November 4
Based on extensive archival research, Dario Robleto’s multimedia installation Unknown and Solitary Seas: Dreams and Emotions of the 19th Century examines the origins of the pulse wave as a graphic expression of internal life.
More about Unknown and Solitary SeasRadcliffe Recognizes the Three Most Exceptional Theses by Harvard Undergraduates
Mark Czeisler, Manuel Medrano, and Anwar Omeish win Fay Prize for scholarly excellence and outstanding original research.
More about Fay PrizesRadcliffe Institute Announces 2019–2020 Fellowship Class
The scholars, artists, scientists, and practitioners who comprise the incoming class of fellows will direct their creative and intellectual energy to addressing some of the most complex and urgent challenges of our time.
More about 2019–2020 Fellowship ClassHarvard Presents Vision & Justice: A Creative Convening on Art, Race, and Justice
Taking its inspiration from Frederick Douglass on the transformative power of pictures to create a new vision for the nation, this convening will focus on the historic roots and contemporary realities of visual literacy for race and justice in American civic life.
More about Vision & JusticeRadcliffe Institute at Harvard Presents a Special Installation of Willie Cole's Haunting Beauties
Beauties—a series of prints by the world-renowned sculptor and printmaker—bear conflicting associations: oppression and resistance, precarity and permanence, violence and beauty.
More about BeautiesDolores Huerta to Receive Radcliffe Medal for Her Impact on Society
“Every American should know her name and her decades-long work to secure the rights of farmworkers, women, and other disadvantaged people,” said Dean Tomiko Brown-Nagin.
More about Dolores HuertaRadcliffe Institute at Harvard presents Future Fossil, a newly commissioned exhibition by Clarissa Tossin, inspired by Octavia Butler’s Xenogenesis trilogy.
The artworks in this exhibition imagine a moment of collision of the past, present, and future. Clarissa Tossin explains, “In the course of making this work, I’ve wondered what a core sample of Earth taken 1,000 years from now will look like.”
More about Future FossilRadcliffe Institute at Harvard Presents an Exhibition and Publication by Anna Von Mertens That Stitch Together Past and Present, Science and Art
In Measure, Anna Von Mertens explores the role of repetition, recognition, notation, and imagination in the development of astronomy.
More about MeasureRadcliffe Institute at Harvard to Host a Public Symposium Exploring "The Undiscovered" and How to Transform the Way Science Is Taught
The Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University announces its science symposium—“The Undiscovered”—to be held on October 26, 2018.
More about The UndiscoveredA Soft, On-the-Fly Solution to a Hard, Underwater Problem
The ability to 3D print soft, robotic grippers on board ships makes it easier for biologists like David Gruber RI '18 to interact with fragile deep-sea marine life.
More about David GruberStudying Aliens of the Deep
A new device developed by Harvard researchers and marine biologist David Gruber RI '18 safely traps delicate sea creatures inside a folding polyhedral enclosure and lets them go without harm using a novel, origami-inspired design.
More about David GruberSchlesinger Library Awarded Grant to Create Comprehensive Digital Media Archive of #metoo
Funding from Harvard Library's S.T. Lee Innovation Grant will support a large-scale project to document the #metoo movement.
More about Schlesinger's Digital Media Archive of #metooRadcliffe Recognizes Harvard Undergraduate Scholars for Top Theses
The Institute awards the 2018 Fay Prize to Harvard College seniors Hannah Byrne, Lily Scherlis, and Aron Szanto for outstanding imaginative work or original research.
More about Fay PrizesAnnouncing 2018–2019 Radcliffe Institute Fellows
The more than 50 individuals from 11 countries who make up Radcliffe’s new fellowship cohort will pursue work across the sciences, social sciences, humanities, and arts.
More about 2018–2019 Radcliffe Institute FellowsMellon Foundation Grant to Radcliffe's Schlesinger Library Will Catalyze New Scholarship on American Women's Suffrage and the Still-Unrealized Promise of Female Citizenship
The grant of $870,000 from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation will support fellowships and programming centered on the 2020 centennial of the 19th Amendment.
More about The Long 19th Amendment ProjectHillary Clinton to Receive Radcliffe Medal for Impact on Society
On Radcliffe Day 2018, Friday, May 25, the Institute will award the Radcliffe Medal to former US Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton.
More about Hillary ClintonThe Schlesinger Library of the Radcliffe Institute at Harvard University Acquires the Angela Y. Davis Papers
Angela Y. Davis is one of the foremost figures in the struggle for human rights and against racial discrimination in the United States, and a foundational thinker in African American feminism.
More about Angela Y. DavisAnnouncing 2017–2018 Radcliffe Institute Fellows
The more than 50 women and men in the incoming class will pursue work across the arts, humanities, sciences, and social sciences in pursuit of knowledge and the creation of original work.
More about 2017–2018 Radcliffe Institute FellowsFrom around the World and across Harvard
“The fellowship class has an amazing reach and diversity, both topically and geographically,” said Dean Lizabeth Cohen. “They are coming from six continents to study subjects ranging from black holes and depictions of the heavens in Chinese art to fossils in the ocean floor."
More about 2016–2017 Radcliffe Fellows