Campus & Community

Harvard has enacted two interim policies in response to the Department of Education’s recent changes to Title IX regulations against sex discrimination.

110 incoming first-year students participated in SPARK, a public-service summer program based in their hometowns. The Gazette spoke with nine of them.

As students prepare for an academic year that will be entirely virtual, many Harvard faculty members have redesigned their courses.

Harvard has launched a nationwide search to hire the University’s next chief of police.

The Tuition Assistance Program lets eligible Harvard employees advance their education for as little as $40 a class.

Professor Bernard Bailyn, a Pulitzer Prize-winning historian who reframed our understanding of colonial America, dies at 97.

How Harvard faculty are inventing ways to make “hard-to-teach” courses work online.

Harvard is testing those who return regularly to campus for COVID-19 at two locations, including Harvard Stadium in Allston. Here are photos of how it’s working.

Harvard School of Dental Medicine welcomed the Class of 2024 doctor of dental medicine students during a Monday orientation.

Harvard ornithologist Scott V. Edwards bicycles across the nation, raising awareness of Black Birders Week and Black Lives Matter.

Harvard faculty shape online classes to engage with COVID, race reckoning, election, and beyond.

Annette Gordon-Reed, the Charles Warren Professor of American History at Harvard Law School and professor of history in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, has been named a University Professor, Harvard’s highest faculty honor.

Macroeconomist and Harvard Professor Emmanuel Farhi, who made important contributions to real-world fiscal policy, died unexpectedly on July 23 at 41 years old.

Flour Bakery owner Joanne Chang ’91 makes sticky-bun popcorn for the Gazette in her own kitchen.

Provost’s Task Force on Managing Student Mental Health details eight recommendations that address a mix of social, academic, and institutional issues.

Michael Ashley Stein, J.D. ’88, addressed what Harvard has done since then to expand accessibility on its campuses, and provided perspective on what challenges and opportunities lie ahead.

Jaidyn Probst ’23 of Redwood Falls, Minn., Maarten de Vries ’21 of Elten, Germany, and Luke Walker ’22 of Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago, share what life is like back home in the Postcard From Here series.

100 library staff return to Harvard’s campus as physical collection access resumes.

Across Harvard’s campuses, non-COVID-19 work is resuming, labs are reopening, and scientists are settling into life in the “new normal.”

Harvard awards $1 million in grants to projects that aim to accelerate progress toward a healthier, more sustainable world.

Excerpt from “The Equivalents: A Story of Art, Female Friendship, and Liberation in the 1960s” by Maggie Doherty.

The Star-Friedman Challenge is helping Harvard scientists during a time of great global uncertainty by boosting high-risk, high-impact research.

A new study looking at the efficacy of behavioral interventions for student involvement in online courses offers some suggestions on the road forward.

Harvard students talk about why they have demonstrated, their experience at protests, and their take on the moment.

The W.E.B. Du Bois Graduate Society is a student organization of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences that aims to foster community and kinship among minority doctoral students.

Harvard’s Faculty of Arts and Sciences decides it will bring up to 40 percent of undergraduates, including all first-year students, to campus for the fall semester.

Provost Alan Garber and Brian Lee, vice president of Harvard Alumni Affairs and Development, discuss the critical role of philanthropic support at Harvard and the principles behind Harvard’s gift policy.

The curator of “Resetting the Table” at the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnography walks us through the exhibit, providing a narration that begins with “Once upon a time, Harvard students and faculty ate together, like a family.”

Instead of painting a mural together, this year students in the Harvard Ed Portal’s Mural Club produced individual works of art with virtual guidance from their instructors, local artist Chanel Thervil and Harvard undergraduate Gabi Maduro Salvarrey.

With COVID-19 leading some to defer enrollment, the yield among students accepted to the Class of 2024 has dropped from 84 percent to 81 percent.