In the Community

All In the Community

  • The mystery of the brain examined

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

  • Dream journey

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

  • Area teens and Harvard ready to get to work

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

  • Celebrating citizenship

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

  • Seizing his chance to grow

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

  • From the ‘Fruit Belt’ to the lab

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

  • Uncovering Harvard Square’s past

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

  • Turning College dreams into reality

    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.

  • 13 Allston-Brighton nonprofits to receive grants

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

  • Tips on guiding parents through media maze

    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.

  • Lessons in observation

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

  • Education is pivotal, Faust tells Miami students

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

  • Students shelter homeless youth at Y2Y

    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.

  • In the Navajo Nation

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

  • Sifting data, seeking justice

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

  • A student’s Harvard Square hideaways

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

  • Español para abogados (Spanish for lawyers)

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

  • Getting their hands on science

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

  • Style with staying power

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

    Denis Black is the general manager emeritus of J. Press Store in Harvard Square. He has been with the store since 1977 and in the clothing business for over 50 years. He is pictured by the shop entrance on Mt. Auburn Street. Stephanie Mitchell/Harvard Staff Photographer
  • Harvard Yard to Boston City Hall

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

  • The ways Boston changed

    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.

  • Opening doors, defining dreams

    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?”

  • Planting the seeds of STEM

    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.

  • Using podcasts to capture stories

    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.

  • Helping the homeless, in high school and college

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

  • Seeing past disabilities in the job search

    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.

  • A Wampanoag Thanksgiving

    To expose students to Native American culture, Pforzheimer House invited Wampanoag chef Sherry Pocknett to cook and share Native American food with students.

  • Diversifying the arts

    Harvard alumni, faculty describe efforts on and off campus to diversify the arts.

  • Professor has Ed Portal audience vote on legalization of marijuana

    A Harvard professor asked an Ed Portal audience to vote on Question 4, which would legalize and create a commission to regulate marijuana in Massachusetts, after they reviewed three very different viewpoints on the topic.

  • From one dreamer to another

    Monica Tesoriero and Kalan Chang are products of the Harvard Bridge Program, which connects workers with citizenship and career-development services.