In the Community

Harvard President Drew Faust explored the country’s history of mourning in a conversation at the September 11 Memorial & Museum in New York.

A group of Cambridge Rindge and Latin students recently completed a marine biology internship that placed them in labs of local universities, including Harvard.

Three student ventures have been recognized with 2017 President’s Innovation Challenge awards, and three runners-up also won awards.

Harvard-based program exposes high school students to the excitement and challenges of entrepreneurship.

“Toward an Artificial Brain” brought the results of a Harvard-led effort to Allston with an Ed Portal discussion.

Varsha Varman is a step closer to reaching her goals thanks in part to financial aid from Harvard.

Plans for Harvard’s 2017 Summer Youth Employment Program, which employs student workers to assist the University with summer staffing needs, is taking applications.

Dinner honors 14 Harvard employees who have worked to become U.S. citizens

Harvard’s Financial Aid Initiative has helped Michael Wingate make the most of his education.

A Harvard senior bound for medical school explains how financial aid made Harvard possible, and opened doors to her future.

A restoration at Clover restaurant in Harvard Square saved previously hidden, glass-covered, tiled school pennants from a century ago.

Shaunte Butler ’14 studied neurobiology as an undergraduate and is now in her first year at Yale Medical School. For the Miami native whose single mother worked two jobs to raise her children, Harvard’s generous financial aid helped make her College dreams a reality.

Thirteen local nonprofits were selected to receive Harvard Allston Partnership Fund grants totaling $100,000 to support programs in the Allston-Brighton community.

As part of the Harvard Ed Portal Faculty Speaker series, Harvard Graduate School of Education’s Joe Blatt shared his research on ever-changing technology and media’s impact on children.

A faculty exchange about the humanities and sciences formed the centerpiece of the February Your Harvard: Miami event.

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

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.

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

Paola Villarreal, a fellow at the Berkman Klein Center, is using data visualization to shed light on inequality in health, housing, and more.

For an undergraduate, Harvard Square is busy and crowded, but it’s home, particularly when you know what parts of it make you happy.

Harvard Law School offers a Spanish course for student attorneys who want to polish their skills to deal with clients who speak that language.

With Harvard help, Gardner Pilot Academy celebrates its new, interactive science lab.

The Ivy League style of clothiers such as J. Press and the Andover Shop has stood the test of time.

Jackie Lender ’16, who is the first Harvard Presidential City of Boston Fellow, shares her experience.

Students enrolled in the course “Reinventing (and Reimagining) Boston: The Changing American City” examine the city and the many changes it has undergone in recent decades.

Last year’s Presidential Public Service Fellows spent a summer answering Drew Faust’s questions “What is your responsibility to others? What values guide your work?”

Harvard students from the Digital Literacy Project (DLP) are providing computer science curricula to seven local middle schools this year. The DLP outreach model is unusual because lessons are presented during the school day.

Gardner Pilot Academy sixth-graders were given the opportunity to tell their stories at PRX’s Podcast Garage, which partners with Harvard University to promote a dynamic, creative community known as the Zone 3 initiative.

The spirit of a Cambridge Rindge and Latin program carries on when its students head for Harvard.

Harvard Extension School and the Perkins School for the Blind have teamed up to create a self-paced edX course that will educate recruiters and hiring managers in best practices when considering a job candidate with a disability.