Campus & Community

Despite 18 points from senior captain Christine Clark, Harvard women’s basketball (17-6, 7-2) had a 21-game home winning streak halted against Penn, 63-50, Friday night at Lavietes Pavilion.

Interim College Dean Donald H. Pfister touched base with students on a Harvard shuttle bus this week.

Harvard University announced today that alumnus Kenneth Griffin, A.B. ’89, founder and chief executive officer of Citadel, has made the largest gift in Harvard College history. The $150 million gift is principally focused on supporting Harvard’s financial aid program.

Hundreds of Cambridge sixth-graders swarmed the Harvard Museum of Natural History for a look at prehistoric New England.

Laverne Cox, who stars as Sophia Burset, the imprisoned African-American, transgender woman in the critically acclaimed Netflix series “Orange Is the New Black,” will discuss her life and career with Harvard students on Feb. 24 at Farkas Hall.

Under the cover of darkness, Harvard’s campus is transformed. Shadows cast by lamplight and moonlight create a Hitchcockian atmosphere when rendered in black and white, like these photographs taken over…

On Feb. 5 the members of the Faculty Council met in camera to discuss three student disciplinary cases.

On Feb. 12 the members of the Faculty Council met with the president to ask and answer questions as representatives of the faculty and heard a proposal from the Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology.

Losses mourned at Memorial Church vigil.

LL Cool J, recording artist, actor, author, and philanthropist, has been named the 2014 Harvard University Artist of the Year.

The Harvard Alumni Association and HarvardX are launching an experimental online learning and engagement site for University alumni.

In response to recent tragedies, the Harvard Chaplains Office will hold a “Vigil of Prayer and Remembrance” on Feb. 12 at 7 p.m. in the Memorial Church.

Harvard students from across the University celebrated “One Harvard” at the fourth annual masquerade ball.

Kenneth I. Chenault, J.D.’76, and Karen Gordon Mills, A.B. ’75, M.B.A. ’77, have been elected to become members of the Harvard Corporation, the University announced today.

Actor Neil Patrick Harris comes to Harvard as Hasty Pudding’s Man of the Year.

Harvard is marking the 10th anniversary of a revolutionary financial aid program that eliminates the cost of the College for those in need, and reduces it for struggling middle-class families.

The Outdoor Church, a group founded by Harvard Divinity School graduates, and supported by current HDS students, ministers to the homeless every week during an open-air service.

For 10 days in January, near the end of Winter break but just before classes resumed, students across Harvard took advantage of a wide array of programming that ranged from artistic and creative pursuits to career and professional development opportunities, recreational activities, and practical skills development.

Capping his lauded Harvard lectureship, “Hidden in Plain View: Meanings in American Music,” musician Wynton Marsalis visited the Phillips Brooks House for an intimate conversation about his hometown of New Orleans.

Applications to Harvard have remained near record highs for the fourth year in a row. This year, 34,295 sought admission to the Class of 2018.

Students at Harvard Business School, Harvard Law School and Harvard Kennedy School host the first University-wide conference on LGBTQ issues.

The proposed 2014–2015 market rents will increase on average 5 percent relative to last year, across the 3,000-unit Harvard University Housing portfolio. Most current Harvard University Housing tenants who choose to extend their lease for another year will receive either a 4 percent increase or will be charged the new market rent for their apartment, whichever rent is lower.

Harvard Kennedy School students embrace January courses, describing them as intense and a “much more immersive, engaging experience.”

On Jan. 29 the members of the Faculty Council heard reports from the Committee on Academic Integrity and the Committee on Outside Activities in the Online Environment.

Dame Helen Mirren visited Harvard as the Hasty Pudding’s Woman of the Year.

Newly revealed plans for the renewal of Dunster House show significantly expanded social and program spaces and new horizontal corridors that will complement the traditional vertical entryways.

January@GSAS offered more than 100 classes, seminars, and training sessions to students in Harvard’s Graduate School of Arts and Sciences during semester break. Students had the chance to escape the lab or library, and spend time exploring subjects that might not otherwise appear in a Harvard course catalog.

In recent years, Harvard has seen a 30 percent increase in the number of graduate students taking courses in allied Schools.

Harvard is well represented on the U.S. women’s hockey team competing for gold at the Sochi Olympics. Includes the video “Playing for Coach Stone” and a photo gallery of Harvard’s players.

Wintersession is the time between terms that allows students who have returned before the start of classes to experience unique opportunities they may not otherwise pursue during the semester. Once again this year, undergraduates, graduate students, faculty, and alumni came together to participate in a vast array of programming.