Campus & Community

Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton visited Harvard Friday for several private sessions with students and faculty to discuss some of the challenges she faced as the nation’s top foreign policy representative from 2009-13.

Faculty from each of Harvard’s 12 graduate Schools addressed a full house at the seventh annual Lectures That Last event held at Harvard Business School’s Burden Auditorium on Feb. 23.

A new exhibit at Harvard’s Pusey Library, “Bound by History: Harvard, Slavery, and Archives,” contains much of what researchers have uncovered so far related to Harvard’s ties to slavery. But experts say there is much more to be found.

The Class of ’18 received their Harvard rings on Junior Parents Weekend.

On March 1 the members of the Faculty Council met with Provost Garber to ask and answer questions as representatives of the Faculty. They also heard a report on the…

Central to Lowell House renewal is Otto Hall, named in recognition of a gift from Alexander Otto ’90, M.B.A. ’94.

Rihanna received the Harvard Foundation’s Peter J. Gomes Humanitarian Award during an hourlong ceremony before a raucous crowd that had waited hours to get a coveted seat inside jam-packed Sanders Theatre.

During a Q&A in advance of a conference on slavery at American universities, Harvard President Drew Faust explains the expanding effort in Cambridge to document the painful realities of the past.

The Harvard Foundation has named Oscar-nominated actress Viola Davis as the 2017 Artist of the Year for her powerhouse performances across TV, film, and theater and philanthropic dedication to her Rhode Island hometown.

The popular singer Rihanna has been named the 2017 Harvard University Humanitarian of the Year, and will come to campus to accept the Peter J. Gomes Humanitarian Award at a ceremony Feb. 28.

Weatherhead Center director Michèle Lamont wins the Erasmus Prize and is honored for her contributions to social sciences.

Education is pivotal to changing your life for the better, Harvard President Drew Faust told an audience of Miami high school students on Thursday.

As part of Harvard’s Wintersession, a handful of freshmen got the chance to experience the reality of lab work by exploring how altering genes in yeast affected the cells’ functions.

On Feb. 15 the members of the Faculty Council heard a report from the General Education Implementation Committee and an update on the work of the Presidential Task Force on Inclusion…

Founded by two Harvard College graduates and staffed mostly by students at the College, Y2Y Harvard Square is the nation’s first student-run homeless shelter exclusively for young adults.

With a 6-3 win, Harvard men’s ice hockey topped Boston University Monday night to earn the Beanpot Championship, capturing a title it had not held since 1993.

A service trip by Harvard undergraduates exposes them to life in the Navajo Nation.

Applications for admission to Harvard College rose to nearly 40,000 this year, with a record 39,494 students applying, 1.2 percent more than last year.

At a Meeting of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences on Feb. 7, 2017, the following Minute was placed upon the records.

At a Meeting of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences on Feb. 7, 2017, the following Minute was placed upon the records.

“NewsHour” co-anchors Judy Woodruff and the late Gwen Ifill will be awarded Radcliffe medals on Radcliffe Day, May 26.

Award-winning actor John Lithgow ’67, Ar.D. ’05, is the recipient of the 2017 Harvard Arts Medal, which marks the opening of Arts First at Harvard.

Hasty Pudding welcomes ‘Deadpool’ actor Ryan Reynolds as its Man of the Year.

Harvard officials, staff, administrators, faculty, alumni, and students stood alongside alumni veterans and active servicemen and -women at a reception at Pusey Library for an evocative exhibition that traces the interwoven histories of two of the country’s oldest institutions: Harvard and the U.S. military.

Town hall session outlines Harvard’s programmatic safety net for community members during this period of tightened immigration.

The sixth annual Public Interested Conference brought together nearly 150 Harvard alumni who shared their experiences in the public service sector.

Harvard encourages computer users to watch out for and report phishing expeditions, which are increasing.

A Harvard undergraduate who now calls two coasts home learns to bridge the 3,000-mile gap.

A Harvard undergrad reflects on leaving home, but staying put.

See Harvard through a collection of double exposure images, where iconic elements of the University campus overlap and converge in surprising ways.