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More than 1,500 people packed a Memorial Church remembrance service on Friday, Sept. 14, capping a week in which the University community mourned the victims and struggled to make sense of the tragic crashes at the World Trade Center, the Pentagon, and in Pennsylvania.

A group of faculty at Harvard, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (M.I.T.), and the University of California, Santa Barbara, is one of a handful nationwide to win millions of dollars in National Science Foundation funding to begin a Nanoscale Science and Engineering Center – which will explore and manipulate items as small as a single…

September 19, 2001 Dear Members of the Harvard Community: The shocking events of last week leave all of us with a profound and enduring sense of loss. We grieve together…

As the bell of the Memorial Church called the Harvard community to a vigil in Tercentenary Theatre Tuesday evening, its inscription – “In memory of voices that are hushed” –…

The reception to welcome the new Nieman Fellows, scheduled for 5 p.m. Friday, Sept. 14, has been canceled due to the tragic events of Tuesday. No alternative reception is scheduled at this time. Call (617) 495-2346 if you have questions.

All Harvard Medical School affiliated hospitals are on alert. Childrens and Brigham and Womens hospitals have cancelled elective surgery and in-patient visits to conserve resources, especially blood. These facilities, as well as Massachusetts General Hospital and Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center are collecting blood. At noon on Wednesday, Susan Craig of Childrens noted that donor…

Responding to calls from students of various cultural, ethnic, and religious backgrounds, the Harvard Foundation for Intercultural and Race Relations will remain open to provide a place for students to gather and talk about the terrorism tragedy, according to Foundation Director S. Allan Counter Jr.

Harvard University Health Services (UHS) is providing buses for members of the Harvard community to get to blood donation centers at Brigham and Women’s and Children’s hospitals in the Longwood…

The following letter was emailed to the Harvard community today by Harvard president Lawrence H. Summers

Counseling and support University Health Services (UHS) is providing mental health outreach and support throughout the Harvard community. Groups are being set up throughout the campus. Group Sessions HUHS Holyoke…

“It felt like a movie.” Two students from New York City, Madeleine Elfenbein ’04 and Luke Stein ’02, described their dazed reactions to yesterday’s tragedy the same way. Katy Brodsky…

As the horrendous images of devastation at New York’s World Trade Center and destruction at the Pentagon blanketed the airwaves Tuesday, Harvard absorbed the awful news, shook off the shock,…

Infectious bacteria that have developed resistance to even the most potent antibiotics are making hospital stays increasingly hazardous. Take the drug vancomycin, for example, which used to be a last line of defense against virulent strains of enterococci and staphylococci that can be life-threatening. These bacteria continually develop new ways to beat vancomycin.