Campus & Community

Arriving Harvard students helped to build the world’s largest cardboard box fort in the MAC Quad.

The latest freshman class, sweepingly broad geographically, includes students from 10,000 miles away and some from Harvard’s own ZIP code.

At orientation sessions, Harvard’s Schools provide students with information on how to live more sustainably and help the University to reduce its environmental footprint.

Military training returns to Harvard, as ROTC cadets participate in their first on-campus workouts in 41 years.

It was a busy summer of Harvard-supported learning on campus and in the neighboring communities.

Several representatives of the Harvard Graduate School of Design took part in the Venice Biennale, a leading architectural event. Dean Mohsen Mostafavi helped to host an opening reception for the American Pavilion.

Eric S. Maskin, a Nobel laureate whose work has had widespread impact on economics and aspects of political science, has been named a University Professor, Harvard’s highest honor for a faculty member.

Forced indoors by rain, College freshmen gathered in Sanders Theatre and the Memorial Church to become formal members of the Class of 2016 at Harvard’s annual convocation.

The Rev. Jonathan L. Walton debuts as Pusey Minister of Harvard’s Memorial Church, telling his listeners to take actions that make a difference, based on their faith.

In her traditional annual remarks at the first fall Morning Prayers, Harvard President Drew Faust found common ground between the secular and the religious, “the ineffable and the immediate,’’ and reminded listeners of “the need to serve both.”

The new dean of Harvard Divinity School, David Hempton, delivered a moving convocation address that recalled the violence from his past, and offered hope for the future.

Harvard’s annual security report, prepared in compliance with The Jeanne Clery Disclosure of Campus Security Policy and Campus Crime Statistics Act (the “Clery Act”), is titled “Playing it Safe” and can be found on the HUPD’s website.

The Harvard College Administrative Board is investigating allegations that a significant number of students enrolled in an undergraduate course last semester may have inappropriately collaborated on answers, or plagiarized their classmates’ responses, on the final exam for the course.

Roger D. Fisher ’43, LL.B. ’ 48, co-author of the perennial best-selling book “Getting to Yes” and the Williston Professor of Law Emeritus at Harvard University, died Aug. 25 in Hanover, N.H. He was 90 years old.

More than 1,600 undergraduates took the first step yesterday to making Harvard their home for the next four years, as they began arriving early in the morning for the ritual of freshman move-in day.

Lawrence D. Bobo has won the American Sociological Association’s Cooley-Mead Award for Distinguished Contributions to Sociological Social Psychology.

The annual Rhino Cup volleyball league stokes the competitive fires of Harvard’s biological community, drawing researchers out of the lab and onto the sandy volleyball court in the courtyard of the Biological Laboratories.

The Brain & Behavior Research Foundation announced $11.9 million in new research grants, strengthening its investment in the most promising ideas to lead to breakthroughs in understanding and treating mental illness, including 19 grants to Harvard researchers.

Despite a bleak forecast for summer jobs for teenagers, Harvard employed more than 150 teens from Boston and Cambridge to work throughout the University. According to the teens, the skills they acquired include some valuable life lessons.

Xiao-Li Meng, chair of Harvard’s Department of Statistics, has been named dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences.

At Harvard’s Technology Products and Services, personal purchasers can now buy a selection of Dell notebooks, desktops, and displays on campus.

Thirty high school students from the Boston area gathered for the Crimson Summer Academy’s annual poetry slam. The young scholars spend three consecutive summers on the Harvard campus, amid classes, projects, field trips, and cultural activities to achieve their dream: success at college.

More than 100 faculty, students, and staff from the Department of Stem Cell and Regenerative Biology turned out for a barbecue to celebrate the full-professor promotions of Kevin Eggan, Konrad Hochedlinger, and Amy Wagers.

Harvard Olympians are making headway in the 2012 London Olympic Games.

Patrick O’Callahan has been named the new director of after-hours urgent care and the Stillman Infirmary at Harvard University Health Services.

Harvard will create a varsity women’s rugby team, to begin play in the 2013-14 season.

The popular Hubway regional bike-share program, up and running in Boston, is expanding into the nearby communities of Cambridge, Somerville, and Brookline, with Harvard playing a key role.

Harvard employees enjoyed ice cream and the Olympics on Friday during a gathering sponsored by the Office of the Executive Vice President.

Planning and executing an outdoor festival for 1,000 people isn’t your typical teenage summer job, but 100 Boston-area teenagers employed as junior counselors in the Phillips Brooks House Association’s summer camps pulled it off without a hitch.

“Literacy and Mothering: How Women’s Schooling Changes the Lives of the World’s Children” by Robert A. LeVine, Sarah LeVine, Beatrice Schnell-Anzola, Meredith Rowe, and Emily Dexter has won the 2013 Eleanor Maccoby Award by the American Psychological Association.