Campus & Community

Harvard’s honorary degree recipients span history, with Benjamin Franklin, Helen Keller, John F. Kennedy, and Nelson Mandela being just a few among the hundreds over the past 364 commencements.

Samantha Noh ’15 shares her memorable Harvard moment, connecting to a distant student past as part of the Yard archaeology digs .

The Graduate School of Design’s Héctor Tarrido-Picart, who earned two degrees, is drawn to bustling cities, and to the literature that defines them.

The massive library, which rose after the Titanic sank, remains a linchpin of learning and conservation at Harvard.

Michael Mancinelli ’15 found that at Harvard he could anchor an offensive line and immerse himself in electrical engineering at the same time.

Test your knowledge of Commencement facts and traditions.

When she graduates from the Kennedy School with her master’s, onetime refugee Fadumo Dayib plans to run for president of Somalia, her homeland.

Every Commencement at Harvard, the Yard fills with graduates and their families celebrating. But look closely in the front row, and you’ll see another jovial gathering. Press photographers from all over the region flock to the Yard to immortalize the regalia and traditions in Tercentenary Theatre. For the Boston press corps, noted for its collegiality, it’s a reunion of sorts.

Narrated by John Lithgow ’67, this visual love letter to libraries celebrates books and those who watch over them while marking the 100th anniversary of the opening of the Harry Elkins Widener Memorial Library, Harvard’s flagship library.

HARMONY — one of Phillips Brooks House Association’s more than 70 volunteer programs — provides instrumental and vocal instruction for children in the Cambridge Public Schools.

Megan Diamond took a few years to decide on a path in public health. After working overseas investigating health in Africa, the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health graduate is looking forward to continuing her work in global health.

Harvard students with ties to Nepal have joined a multicampus response to the devastation wrought by two major earthquakes.

Saheela Ibraheem has always been ahead of her time and is graduating from Harvard College this spring at just 20, a neurobiology concentrator who is looking forward to pursuing a career in academia.

Nearly 81 percent of the students admitted to the Class of 2019 plan to enroll in August. Last year, 80.9 percent matriculated; 81 percent did so the year before. The last time Harvard’s yield on admitted students reached these levels was 1969 for the Class of 1973.

Harvard’s motto, Veritas, has a long — and for two centuries, invisible — history.

Francis J. Doyle III, a distinguished scholar in chemical engineering at the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB), has been appointed the next dean of the Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) and will take the reins on Aug. 1.

Amid a discussion probing inequality, the Your Harvard series celebrates the University’s ties to Chicago.

Talented actress and singer Elizabeth Leimkuhler divided her time at Harvard between her love for the stage and her love for all creatures, great and small.

At the fourth annual School of Engineering and Applied Sciences Design and Project Fair, hundreds of students representing 18 Harvard courses presented projects.

Addressing an audience at the Harvard Ed Portal, Laurel Thatcher Ulrich, the 300th Anniversary University Professor and a Pulitzer Prize winner for history, said that many objects in Harvard’s collections defy easy categorization. Consider, she said, the tortilla.

Students in “The Humanities Colloquium: Essential Works 2” received an education both in and out of the classroom.

Interview with Gerald Holton as part of the Experience series.

Ruth Bielfeldt, Harris K. Weston Associate Professor of the Humanities, and Sarah Richardson, John L. Loeb Associate Professor of the Social Sciences, are this year’s winners of the Roslyn Abramson Award, given annually to assistant or associate professors for excellence in undergraduate teaching.

Seven Harvard faculty members were elected to the National Academy of Sciences.

Arts First, Harvard’s spring weekend festival, embraces creativity, audience participation.

Former Harvard College Dean Charles Preston Whitlock died on April 27 after a brief illness. He was 95. A memorial service will be held May 2.

On April 29 the members of the Faculty Council approved preliminary versions of the University Extension School courses for 2015-16 and Courses of Instruction for 2015-16.

Harvard’s Lowell House Opera is the longest continually performing opera company in New England.

A freshman returns to Visitas, the annual weekend focused on incoming Harvard College students, and views their weekend through fresh eyes.

Awards given after New Venture Competition celebrate entrepreneurship at Harvard Business School.