Rihanna named Harvard’s Humanitarian of Year

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — Harvard University thinks Rihanna sparkles brilliant like a precious stone with regards to magnanimity.

The Grammy Award-winning artist is being regarded Tuesday as Harvard's 2017 Humanitarian of the Year.

The college says it picked Rihanna for her contribution in various altruistic causes. She manufactured a best in class community for oncology and atomic solution to analyze and treat bosom tumor in her home country of Barbados.

She additionally made the Clara Lionel Foundation grant program — named for her grandparents — for understudies from the Caribbean who go to school in the U.S.

Rihanna likewise bolsters the Global Partnership for Education and Global Citizen Project, furnishing youngsters with access to instruction in more than 60 creating nations.

Past champs incorporate performing artist James Earl Jones and dissident Malala Yousafzai (mah-LAH'- lah YOO'- suhf-zeye.)