In the Community

All In the Community

  • In its 12th year, Honan 5K still on a run

    More than 450 Harvard students, staff, and faculty crossed the Charles River on Sunday to run in the Brian J. Honan 5K, an event that has become a tradition for the Harvard community.

  • Harvard hosting HUBweek

    As one of four sponsors, Harvard will be a major player in HUBweek, hosting 18 presentations celebrating Boston area innovation.

  • Doesn’t look a day over 40

    Harvard, Cambridge mayor host 40th annual senior picnic.

  • A summer of learning

    At the Cambridge-Harvard Summer Academy, students stretch their minds through science.

  • Growing up, giving back

    In summer, the Cambridge Youth Enrichment Program, sponsored by the Phillips Brooks House, provides campers with a focus.

  • Science to chew on

    Local children learn the scientific principles behind cooking food.

  • It’s all about that bass

    Local students learn how the body talks to the brain — by making bugs dance — at the Harvard Ed Portal.

  • Bringing computer skills to classrooms

    The Digital Literacy Project, run by Harvard undergraduates, is helping to drive computer learning among Boston middle schoolers.

  • Getting to know the lab

    High school students have a chance to see how science works, and a role in research, through the CRLS Marine Science Internship program at Harvard.

  • Science, on the edge

    Cambridge eighth-graders immersed themselves in science’s future during their visit to Harvard.

  • A brighter future together

    A young students’ leadership group from Boston celebrates its success stories during a commencement gathering at Harvard.

  • Disabilities, pushed to the side

    Students with disabilities explain how they got to Harvard in a book by Professor Thomas Hehir, Ed.D. ’90, and co-authors, including Laura Schifter, Ed.D. ’14, an adjunct lecturer at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. Hehir and Schifter shared some of the stories in a recent talk at the Ed Portal.

  • Innovation and immersion overseas

    Grants from the President’s Innovation Fund for International Experiences are helping faculty members plan and develop a suite of new study-abroad experiences for students.

  • Scholarship of things

    Addressing an audience at the Harvard Ed Portal, Laurel Thatcher Ulrich, the 300th Anniversary University Professor and a Pulitzer Prize winner for history, said that many objects in Harvard’s collections defy easy categorization. Consider, she said, the tortilla.

  • A call for ideas

    Awards given after New Venture Competition celebrate entrepreneurship at Harvard Business School.

  • Upward, onward, underwater

    Harvard runners training for the Boston Marathon found ways to train throughout this season’s record snowfall.

  • Lessons in the power of theater

    The American Repertory Theater (A.R.T.) and Harvard’s Public School Partnerships brought local students to campus to view, and share thoughts on, A.R.T.’s production of Suzan-Lori Parks’ “Father Comes Home From the Wars (Parts 1, 2, & 3).”

  • Making the most of meals

    Harvard University recently launched an effort to address chronic hunger among its neighbors in Cambridge and Boston by partnering with the local nonprofit Food for Free to donate nearly 2,000 nutritious meals each week to families in need.

  • Buoyant welcome for Ed Portal reboot

    The reimagined Harvard Ed Portal, a 12,000-square-foot space devoted to teaching and innovation, opened its doors Feb. 21 at Western Avenue and North Harvard Street in Allston.

  • Covering the snow

    Photo gallery: Harvard staff members keep the campus running throughout record snowfalls.

  • Learning from student athletes

    More than 750 students from two Allston schools packed the stands at Lavietes Pavilion to watch the Harvard women’s basketball team in action and learn about student athletes.

  • A breadth of learning

    Harvard’s Online Learning gateway houses the University’s open online learning opportunities under one roof for the first time, and anyone can access the breadth and depth of Harvard’s learning content.

  • A spark for young minds

    Harvard undergrads joined a showcase of work they helped develop as part of the Ed Portal’s mentoring program.

  • Pointing toward Athens 2.0

    Harvard will partner with Massachusetts General Hospital, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and The Boston Globe for a new, weeklong festival of big ideas and bold solutions next October.

  • ‘Lede’ing by example

    This past fall, more than a dozen Boston sixth- and seventh-graders got a taste of life as journalists. Participating in a program called Project Lede, the students learned just how much hard work goes into creating and publishing a newspaper, thanks to Project Lede founders who hail from Harvard and the University of Delaware.

  • Discovering ‘detectives’ of science

    Howard Stone returned to Harvard to lead the annual holiday lecture at the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, with hundreds of family and community members in attendance.

  • Harvard professor explores marine biology with teens

    Peter Girguis, professor of organismic and evolutionary biology, hosted nearly two dozen Cambridge Rindge & Latin School students on Harvard’s campus for a discussion about the various career paths available in marine science.

  • X marks the spot at Ed Portal

    The Harvard Allston Education Portal featured another free seminar, this one part of its “in-person dialogue sessions” exploring the popular HeroesX series, an online class that focuses on the modern relevance of the “Ancient Greek Hero.”

  • Hidden Spaces: Beanbag Alley

    There are many formal spaces in the Langdell Library of Harvard Law School (HLS). But not on the top floor on a bridge leading to the Lewis Hall stacks, where…

  • A simple ‘thank you’

    The Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences is hosting its fifth annual Giving Thanks open house, welcoming its staffers to write personal messages of gratitude to colleagues and friends across the University.