Campus & Community

A look at how Harvard has celebrated some previous anniversaries.

Entertainment, food, festivities highlight October gathering.

Harvard gears up to celebrate an event-filled 375th anniversary, embracing what President Faust calls a “tradition of imaginative change.”

Preston Williams was honored with a new portrait in Andover Hall. The picture of Williams, the Houghton Research Professor of Theology and Contemporary Change Emeritus, is part of the Harvard Foundation Portraiture Project.

Harvard’s annual convocation ceremony gives members of the Class of 2015 their first taste of the University’s history and traditions.

Harvard President Drew Faust spoke at the first Morning Prayers service, encouraging listeners to consider the past as a “valuable resource” for contemplating the future.

Harvard plans services, vigils, panels to draw meaning from 10th anniversary of 9/11 tragedy.

The Harvard University Library is soliciting proposals for projects to improve the library via the Library Lab program.

They are an eclectic group of Harvard students, staff, faculty, and community members. They range in age from their late teens to 50-something. They can be freshmen or CEOs, but they move fast, and under their own power. They ride by bike.

Harvard University officials responded to reports of downed utility lines and broken branches, but received no reports of injuries or serious damage as Tropical Storm Irene passed through the region.…

Update on the Hurricane Irene situation.

Harvard College Dean Evelynn M. Hammonds welcomed members of the Class of 2015 to campus during a session at Sanders Theatre.

Harvard hosted the third annual MIT vs. Harvard Case Competition.

Harvard University is commemorating its 375th anniversary this year with a special gift — a mobile tour of Harvard Yard for visitors, neighbors, and members of the Harvard community.

Children will turn rubbish into toys during the “Trash Tales” event at the Peabody Museum on Aug. 20.

The Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology has been awarded a $150,000 Museums for America grant from the U.S. Institute of Museum and Library Services.

Hidden Spaces is part of a series about lesser-known spaces at Harvard. The little cemetery, hidden at the far end of the 265-acre Arboretum, holds several headstones and a crypt and was once part of the Walter Street “Berrying” Ground.

Harvard University Health Services’ Intuitive Eating Seminar is open for registration.

Harvard College’s Niharika Jain is one of 70 students from around the country who have been awarded the Pearson Prize for Higher Education.

Leston Havens, professor of psychology emeritus at Harvard Medical School, died on July 29 after an extended illness.

The National Institute of Statistical Sciences has presented the 2011 Jerome Sacks Award for Cross-Disciplinary Research to Emery N. Brown of MIT and Harvard.

Cambridge-Harvard Summer Academy encourages students to design an offbeat, futuristic high school, applying geometry lessons in the process.

The Society for Vascular Surgery elected Harvard Medical School professor Marc Schermerhorn as a distinguished fellow.

Ten professors in Harvard’s Faculty of Arts and Sciences have been named Walter Channing Cabot Fellows.

Summer school students unearthed a variety of artifacts during their archaeology class in Harvard Yard, the most unusual of which was a fragment of a doll’s face from the 1800s.

Baruj Benacerraf, who earned a 1980 Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine for his groundbreaking research in immunology and led Dana-Farber Cancer Institute through a period of tremendous growth beginning that year, died in Boston on Aug. 2 at the age of 90.

CAMBRIDGE, Mass., Aug. 1, 2011 — In a first for any higher education institution, Harvard University has achieved its 50th Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) certification. The green…

As of this week, Harvard became the first higher education institution to complete 50 Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) certifications for construction projects around campus, a process 10 years in the making.

The Institute of Politics, located at the Harvard Kennedy School, announced the selection of an experienced group of individuals for resident and visiting fellowships this fall.

From lettuce to lobsters and everything in between, Harvard Farmers’ Market vendors dish on the fruits of their labor.