Campus & Community

Though Harvard has been working to reduce sexual and gender harassment for years, it’s adding to its Title IX efforts.

The return of members of the Harvard and Radcliffe Class of 1968 for the 50th anniversary of their graduation proves cause to revisit an era of sweeping change.

The professor who put forward the idea of multiple intelligences talks about his adventures in learning for the Experience series.

A Q&A with Fletcher Maynard Academy principal Robin Harris on the impact of Harvard’s “Mind Matters” program at the Cambridge school.

After an internship with the Children’s Defense Fund Freedom Schools changed her life, Nicole Powell changed her trajectory and headed for Harvard Divinity School.

The Harvard Allston Partnership Fund has provided more than $1 million in grants since its inception 10 years ago. The 10th anniversary was marked by a celebration at Allston’s Raymond V. Mellone Park when $100,000 in grants were recently announced.

Using her head and her hands, Haley Curtin ’18 has built the foundation of a meaningful life. Meaningful first of all to her.

Long-anticipated renovations will begin this summer, preserving the building’s legacy while also bringing it into the 21st century.

Derek Miller, John L. Loeb Associate Professor of the Humanities, and Elizabeth Hinton, assistant professor of history and of African and African-American studies, are winners of the Roslyn Abramson Award.

The President’s Innovation Challenge recognized three student ventures, STEMgem, OZÉ, and PionEar, with $75,000 in prize money from the Bertarelli Foundation to help them turn their ideas into impactful, real-world ventures.

Family, history, and the 1960s all helped to shape the higher ed leader, but it was illness that urged her forward.

Crowds top 15,000 over the festival’s four days.

At a Meeting of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences on May 1, 2018, the Minute honoring the life and service of the late Eugene George Rochow, Professor of Chemistry, Emeritus, was placed upon the records. Professor Rochow took on challenging realms of organometallic chemistry and ceramics, nuclear chemistry, and education.

At a Meeting of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences on May 1, 2018, the Minute honoring the life and service of the late Leonard Kollender Nash, William R. Kenan, Jr., Professor of Chemistry, Emeritus, was placed upon the records. Professor Nash conducted research in thermodynamics and statistical mechanics and was a famously inspiring teacher.

At a Meeting of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences on May 1, 2018, the Minute honoring the life and service of the late William Aloys Klemperer, Erving Professor of Chemistry Emeritus, was placed upon the records. Professor Klemperer was among the world’s leaders in molecular spectroscopy.

Bridget Terry Long will become the new dean of the Harvard Graduate School of Education in July.

Elizabeth Hinton, assistant professor of history and of African and African American Studies, has been named a 2018 Carnegie Fellow.

Donors and recipients gathered in the Northwest Science Building to mark the 12th annual Celebration of Scholarships dinner event.

Reductions in trash, water use, and net greenhouse gas emissions are among the highlights of the 2017 Harvard Sustainability Report.

As the Boston Red Sox look to build on their strong start this season, the team’s work off the field, including its efforts to support inner city children and to confront racism, took center stage at a panel discussion at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study.

Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates dropped by Harvard to tour SEAS labs and talk with students about making the most of their time here.

The University unveiled a portrait of the late S. Allen Counter, founder of the Harvard Foundation for Intercultural and Race Relations.

Tomiko Brown-Nagin, a leading historian on law and society as well as an authority on constitutional and education law and policy, has been named dean of Harvard’s Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study.

Another Visitas prompts a Harvard undergraduate to gauge just how far she has come in a year.

The Transcript Project aims “to recognize the curiosity-driven intellectual journey that college is meant to be,” according to Dean Robin Kelsey.

Harvard postdoc Or Graur finds success in the launch of Science Research Mentoring Program, which provides 10 local high school students a year of space research, working with a “real-life” scientist.

Pierre Berastaín Ojeda has been appointed director of Harvard’s Office of Sexual Assault Prevention and Response.

As natural disasters increase in frequency and severity, the Harvard Extension School’s Sustainability Program has grown in exponential increments.

The American Academy of Arts and Sciences announced the election of 213 new members, including 11 Harvard faculty.

Fifteen finalists have been selected in the President’s Innovation Challenge, which tackles real-world issues. Winners will be named May 2.