Campus & Community

Convocation ceremony for the Class of 2024 and Class of 2025 was held in Tercentenary Theatre.

Students, faculty, staff, and affiliates share their favorite places to write — courtyards, hallway alcoves, cafes, and library stacks — around Cambridge and Boston.

For 40 years, the Rhino League has been played on the Harvard Bio Labs volleyball court.

First-year students were welcomed to campus for the first in-person semester since March 2020.

Guido Guidotti, Higgins Professor of Biochemistry, taught hundreds of students during more than 60 years of research and teaching. Guidotti died April 5 in Newton, Massachusetts, following a long battle with prostate cancer. He was 87.

Bruce Huang discusses the need for more cybersecurity professionals and how the need is being addressed through the Harvard program.

The first sophomores, juniors, and seniors moved into Harvard’s Houses on Friday, a welcome return to the familiar and the newly different.

Eight first-year Harvard students talk about their work with the SPARK program and the unique challenges created by the pandemic.

Chris James, president and CEO of The National Center for Native American Enterprise Development in Mesa, Arizona, shares his Extension School experience.

Despite downpour, the Department of Astronomy ice cream social event draws a crowd.

Counseling and Mental Health Services has launched a new 24/7 hotline for students who have mental health concerns or questions of any kind, whether they are in immediate distress or not, on campus or elsewhere.

Landmark Bio, a new center for advanced cell manufacturing, announced that former Orchard Therapeutics, Amgen, and Genzyme executive Ran Zheng will take over as chief executive. Landmark Bio is a partnership of Boston-area universities, hospitals, and private industry led by Harvard and MIT.

Colleagues and friends remember Richard Lewontin as whip-smart, a fierce debater, and an engaged and loyal mentor and friend.

In the summertime the days lengthen, the landscape brightens, calling to mind crisp sheets on a clothesline, billowy clouds, or a crisp culinary uniform.

During the pandemic, the Harvard Teacher Fellows program quickly shifted its training from in-person to online teaching.

Shining a light on the complex history of slavery and how we understand its lasting impacts is at the heart of Clint Smith’s latest work.

HUHS Director Giang Nguyen discusses the delta variant of COVID-19 and gives a first look at what campus re-entry will look like.

James H. Sidanius devoted much of his career to social justice and racial equality.

Klara Jelinkova, who developed a reputation as an innovator in her nearly three decades in information technology at major U.S. research universities, has been named vice president and University chief information officer, Harvard announced today.

Harvard, MIT, and edX announced a joint effort with education technology company 2U to extend online learning’s reach and impact across the world.

Vice Provost for Research Rick McCullough has been named president of Florida State University.

The Harvard University Police Department (HUPD) today announced the launch of a public workload- and crime-data dashboard, an initiative that grew out of a recent wide-ranging examination of the department and aims to further increase transparency and accountability.

Students from Schools, centers, and programs across Harvard University volunteer their time, effort, and expertise to advance work being done by local government and community organizations across Greater Boston.

After COVID hiatus, Harvard’s Family Van gears up again.

In Tiya Miles’ “All That She Carried,” the book explores a tattered artifact to piece together a history of a family torn apart.

Harvard and local philanthropic partners are helping fund the city of Cambridge’s new guaranteed-income pilot initiative to support community in need.

Natalie Swartz has spent the past tumultuous year serving as the fifth Harvard Presidential City of Boston Fellow in the Boston Mayor’s Office.

The inaugural group of Harvard’s Diversity, Inclusion, and Belonging fellows come from disciplines as diverse as the study of religion to Romance languages, English, and music.

The Harvard Task Force on the Future of Teaching and Learning was created to explore how the University can build on learnings from remote teaching during the pandemic.

Seven Harvard professors have been awarded funds from the Star-Friedman Challenge for Promising Scientific Research.