In the Community
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Boston, Harvard announce affordable housing funding
Nearly 100 units to be created in Allston
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Harvard, MIT, Mass General form renewable energy collaboration
Group will include higher education, healthcare, and cultural institutions, seek to leverage buying power to advance cost-effective, green production projects
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An evening of stars, solar flares, and agujeros negros
Harvard College Observatory hosts inaugural Spanish-language night
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Providing community support
Harvard Allston Partnership Fund awards grants to 26 Allston-Brighton nonprofits
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Call it summer school in public service
Presidential fellowships give students a chance to kick the tires on careers for greater common good
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City approves new home for A.R.T. in Allston
Project includes large residential building for Harvard affiliates, will add to vibrancy of emerging hub of creativity, innovation
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A worm named Peanut
Kindergarten through fifth grade Boston Public School students become “Young Scientists” for a day through the Arnold Arboretum’s Field Study Experiences program.
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Bridge to a new life
Success stories from Harvard’s Bridge Program, which pairs student tutors with immigrant employees to ease the transition to a new culture, are celebrated.
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Demystifying the workplace
Harvard welcomes Boston Public School students to speak to staff about their goals and gain perspective about college and career.
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Rocking the House(s)
Harvard Housing Day, when first-year students learn what House they’ll be living in beginning sophomore year, is a big celebration
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To do good in the world
On Feb. 2, the Phillips Brooks House Center for Public Service and Engaged Scholarship will host the eighth annual Public Interested Conference, a daylong program that brings students and alumni together.
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Rallying for one of their own
On Tuesday during a fundraiser at El Jefe’s Taqueria, members of the Harvard community came out to support Ben Abercrombie ’21, a first-year safety who was seriously injured last year during his first football game for the Crimson.
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Harvard forms subsidiary to advance Enterprise Research Campus
Harvard has announced the formation of a new subsidiary, headed by HBS Dean Nitin Nohria and former Massport CEO Thomas Glynn, to begin development of its Enterprise Research Campus in Allston.
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Much to be thankful for
Giving Thanks Open House allows Harvard community to share its message among colleagues and support the Harvard Square Homeless Shelter.
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Presidential Public Service Fellowship has broad reach
In its eighth year, Harvard’s Presidential Public Service Fellowship offered both undergraduate and graduate students opportunities to give back to communities, agencies, and nonprofits.
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‘We did all we could, but we could have done more’
Accepting the Robert Coles “Call of Service” award at Harvard, San Juan Mayor Carmen Yulín Cruz reflected on the aftermath of deeply damaging Hurricane Maria.
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‘Pathway to public service’
Lexi Smith ’18, who is the latest Harvard Presidential City of Boston Fellow, wants to serve at the city level because that’s where she sees the tangible action for environmental change.
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Undergrads fill the gap
Six Harvard College students taught English as a second language to new residents of Boston as part of the inaugural Phillips Brooks House Association Adult ESOL program.
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Harvard program gets high marks
In a recent survey of parents who have completed the Harvard Mind Matters program offered in Cambridge and Boston schools, more than 98 percent were pleased with the materials and outcome.
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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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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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A whole-family approach
A Q&A with Fletcher Maynard Academy principal Robin Harris on the impact of Harvard’s “Mind Matters” program at the Cambridge school.
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Harvard Allston Partnership Fund marks decade
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.
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The Sox beyond Fenway
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.
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Space to learn
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.
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Bringing a dying language back to life
Harvard instructor Sunn m’Cheaux worked with 30 Vassal Lane Upper School seventh-graders, teaching them the origin of the Gullah language as part of Harvard’s Project Teach program.
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Harvard’s hand across the bridge to citizenship
At the annual Citizenship Celebration Dinner, Harvard welcomed its newest Americans.
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Students provide tax help
Harvard Law School students are volunteering their time to provide tax help to the community at the Cambridge Public Library.
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Helping Native Americans help themselves
Students who take “Native Americans in the 21st Century” leave the classroom to visit communities in Indian country to help them build healthier communities and reduce disparities in education, health, and economics.
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Harvard evolves and grows, but maintains core mission
Your Harvard series takes President Drew Faust to San Francisco.
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Classroom theory, community action
Urban Health and Community Change,” a social studies course that debuted last semester, took students out of the classroom and into the Somerville community to roll up their sleeves and take practical action to help the less advantaged.
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Harvard rolls out program to protect pedestrians and cyclists
To protect pedestrians and cyclists, Harvard will soon require side guards be installed on large trucks that are on campus.
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College grad finds ‘endless’ opportunities in public service
Omar Khoshafa ’17 has been named this year’s Harvard Presidential City of Boston Fellow.
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The power to make a difference
Hundreds of Harvard alumni and students came together for the seventh annual Public Interested Conference to consider taking on roles to address many of society’s most pernicious problems, from civil rights violations to poverty to sexual assault.
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Connecting Harvard history to its surroundings
In class, Harvard freshmen dive into archives to learn from the University’s past about its ties to communities and the wider world.
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Learning to understand their own DNA
Harvard gives local high school students hands-on experience with biotechnology.