Photography
Harvard’s campus and community through the lens of our photographers.
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Campus & Community
Renaming of a neighborhood
For Maya Counter ’24, honoring a notable Black educator, and setting right a historical wrong
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Arts & Culture
Everything, everywhere, all at once (kind of)
There’s never a shortage of creativity on campus. But during Arts First, it all comes out to play.
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Campus & Community
For the young at heart, and fleet of foot
Harvard runners take on the Boston Marathon
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Campus & Community
Living in Leverett next year? That’s what the carrot said.
Warm (if loud) emotions echo across Yard for Housing Day 2024
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Campus & Community
What makes a House a home
HoCo chairs share residential life’s quirks, points of pride
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Warm welcome for Class of 2022
President Larry Bacow, Dean Claudine Gay, and other Harvard leaders welcomed the Class of 2022 to campus on move-in day.
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A season for exploration
At the third annual Summer Explorations series at the Harvard Ed Portal, local students of all ages experienced programs that enriched learning, stimulated curiosity, and explored everything from storytelling to ceramics to bike riding.
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Red all about it
Harvard and crimson are synonymous. But all over campus, brighter shades of red abound, too.
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The Harvard-Yenching Library, by the numbers
With 1.4 million volumes in more than a dozen languages, the Harvard-Yenching Library is the largest academic library for East Asian studies in the Western world.
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STAGE struck
Phillips Brooks House Association’s STAGE worked with Cambridge and Boston youth on the fundamentals of theater, exploring plot, characterization, improvisation, and more.
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The myriad moments of Commencement
The weeklong buildup to Commencement Day’s ancient and scripted rites is a feast for the eyes, the ears, the palate, but mostly the heart.
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The ending as beginning: Commencement ’18
Harvard’s annual Commencement is both a conclusion and a start for those graduating. But the day also is a gathering of the far-flung Crimson clan under tents and trees in…
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Rite of spring
Crowds top 15,000 over the festival’s four days.
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The weight of the ‘eights’ on her shoulders
What she lacks in size she makes up for in volume as leader of the heavyweight varsity rowers.
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A history of games at Houghton
Explore the Harvard library’s treasure trove of games dating back to the 17th century.
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It’s Housing Day, with snowballs
As nor’easter slackens, Harvard freshmen throng the Yard after learning where they’ll live next, all part of the annual Housing Day.
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John Harvard’s Charlestown
After a recent snowfall, we explored the neighborhood of the University’s namesake and spoke with historian Rosemary Kverek of Charlestown and Cambridge Historical Commission Director Charles Sullivan.
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‘Sketching’ with clay
Ben Owen III of North Carolina comes from a long line of potters. The master potter demonstrated his technique at a Harvard Ceramics Program workshop.
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Making Harvard’s Houses home
Some are new to the role while others are veterans, but their mission is the same: to create a community for their ‘extended family’ of students.
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At Wintersession, fresh ways for students to explore
Wintersession 2018 gave Harvard students some much-welcomed time to explore new fields and experiences.
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Quidditch, anyone? Inside Harvard club sports
Teddy Roosevelt boxed. Neil deGrasse Tyson wrestled. For generations, Harvard students have turned to physical activity for a break from study.
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Study spaces call to students
From Widener Library’s Loker Reading Room to the Harvard Art Museums’ Calderwood Courtyard, photos show Harvard’s most popular study spaces
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In the Yard, inside the dorms
A photo gallery of roommates in Harvard’s Class of 2020.