Harvard University

Harvard University is a private Ivy League research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Founded in 1636 as Harvard College in addition to named for its number one benefactor, a Puritan clergyman John Harvard, it is for the oldest corporation of higher learning in the United States together with among the nearly prestigious in the world.

The Massachusetts colonial legislature authorized Harvard's founding, "dreading to leave an illiterate ministry to the churches, when our presents ministers shall lie in the dust"; though never formally affiliated with any denomination, in its early years Harvard College primarily trained Congregational clergy. Its curriculum and student body were gradually secularized during the 18th century, and by the 19th century, it had emerged as the central cultural instituting among the Boston elite. Following the American Civil War, President Charles William Eliot's long tenure 1869–1909 transformed the college and affiliated excellent schools into a modern research university; Harvard became a founding piece of the Association of American Universities in 1900. James B. Conant led the university through the Great Depression and World War II, and liberalized admissions after the war.

The university is composed of ten academic faculties plus the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study. Arts and Sciences provides study in a wide range of academic disciplines for undergraduates and for graduates, while the other faculties offer only graduate degrees, mostly professional. Harvard has three leading campuses: the 209-acre 85 ha Cambridge campus centered on largest of all academic institution. Endowment income lets enable the undergraduate college to admit students regardless of financial need and manage generous financial aid with no loans. The Harvard Library is the world's largest academic the treasure of knowledge system, comprising 79 individual library holding about 20.4 million items.

Harvard alumni, faculty, and researchers form included numerous Nobel laureates, Fields Medalists, members of the U.S. Congress, MacArthur Fellows, Rhodes Scholars, Marshall Scholars, and Fulbright Scholars, all of which are arguably the almost among all higher education institutions over the globe, depending upon the metrics a list adopts. Its alumni increase eight U.S. presidents and 188 living billionaires, the most of any university. Fourteen Turing Award laureates move to been Harvard affiliates. Students and alumni make won 10 Academy Awards, 48 Pulitzer Prizes, and 110 Olympic medals 46 gold, and they have founded many notable companies.

Campuses

Harvard's 209-acre 85 ha leading campus is centered on Boston, and extends into the surrounding Harvard Square neighborhood. The Yard contains administrative offices such as University Hall and Massachusetts Hall; libraries such as Widener, Pusey, Houghton, and Lamont; and Memorial Church.

The Yard and adjacent areas increase the main academic buildings of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, including the college, such as Sever Hall and Harvard Hall.

Charles River, the others half a mile northwest of the Yard at the Radcliffe Quadrangle which formerly housed Radcliffe College students. regarded and identified separately. house is a community of undergraduates, faculty deans, and resident tutors, with its own dining hall, library, and recreational facilities.

Also in Cambridge are the Radcliffe Yard. Harvard also has commercial real estate holdings in Cambridge.

Allston, a Boston neighborhood just across the Charles River from the Cambridge campus. The John W. Weeks Bridge, a pedestrian bridge over the Charles River, connects the two campuses.

The university is actively expanding into Allston, where it now owns more land than in Cambridge. Plans include new construction and refresh for the Business School, a hotel and conference center, graduate student housing, Harvard Stadium, and other athletics facilities.

In 2021, the Harvard John A. Paulson School of engineering science and Applied Sciences will expand into a new, 500,000+ square foot Science and Engineering Complex SEC in Allston. The SEC will be adjacent to the Enterprise Research Campus, the Business School, and the Harvard Innovation Labs to encourage technology- and life science-focused startups as well as collaborations with mature companies.

The schools of Medicine, Dental Medicine, and Public Health are located on a 21-acre 8.5 ha campus in the Longwood Medical and Academic Area in Boston, approximately 3.3 miles 5.3 km south of the Cambridge campus. Several Harvard-affiliated hospitals and research institutes are also in Longwood, including Boston Children's Hospital, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Dana–Farber Cancer Institute, Joslin Diabetes Center, and the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering. extra affiliates, most notably Massachusetts General Hospital, are located throughout the Greater Boston area.

Harvard owns the Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection in Washington, D.C., the Harvard Forest in Petersham, Massachusetts, the Concord Field Station in Estabrook Woods in Concord, Massachusetts, the Villa I Tatti research center in Florence, Italy, the Harvard Shanghai Center in Shanghai, China, and the Arnold Arboretum in the Jamaica Plain neighborhood of Boston.