Campus & Community

New lab complex will help Harvard progress toward its Sustainability Plan and achieve its goals to be fossil fuel-neutral by 2026 and fossil fuel-free by 2050.

University Health Services awaits increase supply of vaccines, indicating it has the ability to administer twice the number of vaccines to the Harvard community.

The President’s Administrative Innovation Fund is looking for staff solutions to administrative challenges, centered on the future of work.

Harvard President Larry Bacow reflects on how the Harvard community has met the challenges posed by COVID-19, and to look ahead how the University is tackling some of the world’s most pressing problems.

Peer Advising Fellow pen pals help Harvard first-years fit in — even from afar.

The first Harvard Staff Art Show featured more than 280 pieces by 167 artists who work in other positions at the University

On Housing Day, first-year students learn where they will spend their next years at Harvard, and the Houses are as varied as the residents who inhabit them.

Health experts, leaders, and staff offered input, helped devise Harvard’s coronavirus policy and procedures.

Anurima Bhargava ’96, director and president of Anthem of Us, will serve as chief marshal as Harvard honors the Class of 2021.

What started 13 years ago as a welcome gesture from a towering figure at the Law School to a new basketball coach has become a monthly balm, an oasis of multigenerational community and education.

Adams House marks its first phase of renewal with the completion of Claverly Hall.

At a Meeting of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences on March 2, 2021, the Minute honoring the life and service of the late Thomas Crombie Schelling, Lucius N. Littauer Professor of Political Economy, Emeritus, was placed upon the records. Professor Schelling was a Nobel laureate in economics and developed principles for avoiding nuclear war.

Kristen Pope of Harvard’s Division of Continuing Education is dedicated to uplifting her community.

At a Meeting of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences on March 2, 2021, the Minute honoring the life and service of the late Bernard Bailyn, Adams University Professor, Emeritus, and James Duncan Phillips Professor of Early American History, Emeritus, was placed upon the records. Professor Bailyn was one of Harvard’s most eminent historians.

At a Meeting of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences on March 2, 2021, the Minute honoring the life and service of the late Sidney Verba, Carl H. Pforzheimer University Professor, Emeritus, was placed upon the records. Professor Verba profoundly changed political science and was one of Harvard’s most influential academic administrators.

Bloomberg Philanthropies and Harvard University announced they will expand support for city leaders with a $150 million investment to establish the Bloomberg Center for Cities at Harvard.

Orvin Pierre ’22 pieces together studies in science and humanism to prepare to be a physician.

A photo gallery shows off the perseverance and beauty of the beech trees at the Arnold Arboretum.

Prairie View A&M University President Ruth Simmons, who earned her Ph.D. from Harvard in 1973, will give the principal speech at the celebration for the Class of 2021.

Harvard’s Committee to Articulate Principles on Renaming will begin soliciting input next week from members of the University through a series of open meetings, small group virtual conversations, online suggestion boxes, and more to help guide efforts to outline the process for when and how to replace contentious names of “buildings, spaces, programs, professorships, or other named objects.”

Longtime University benefactor Gustave M. Hauser cared deeply about developing ethical leaders. He died Feb. 14.

A Harvard professor for more than five decades, Robert Glauber died at 81. , Among his many accomplishments, Glauber helped analyze the 1987 stock market crash and led negotiations to resolve the savings and loan crisis.

Amid pandemic with a load of seven classes, Michael Cheng decided he needed to teach himself to swim.

Bernard Lown, a beloved Emeritus faculty member and mentor at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, died on Feb. 16, 2021 at his home in Chestnut Hill, Mass. He was 99.

The new homepage is designed to be a streamlined entry to the University’s digital presence intended to ease navigation, provide information for students, families, affiliates, and visitors, and tell Harvard’s story.

The Center for Jewish Studies and the Hutchins Center for African & African American Research debut their “Black & Jewish Talk Series” with “A Conversation.”

When the Harvard Graduate School of Education welcomes its Class of 2022, it will usher in a newly redesigned, and newly customizable program of study.

Plans are underway for the initial phase of development of the Enterprise Research Campus, set to be located adjacent to the new Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences and across the street from Harvard Business School.

Harvard Ed Portal’s Winter Market helps artists in its Allston-Brighton neighborhood grow and thrive through pandemic’s ever-changing landscape.

College students helped read Lindsey Metcalf’s “No Voice Too Small” and talked about the importance of staying active, even when school is at home.