Campus & Community

English soccer champions Manchester United made a brief stop at Harvard University as part of their U.S. pre-season tour, during which they’ll face several Major League Soccer teams including the Massachusetts-based New England Revolution. Sir Alex Ferguson led the star-studded squad through Harvard Yard, stopping at the statue of John Harvard for a photograph. Wayne Rooney, Ryan Giggs, Park Ji-Sung and Rio Ferdinand were among the crowd.

Members of Manchester United Football Club visited Harvard to conduct a soccer clinic with local youth from the Boston neighborhoods of Allston and Brighton, and to play tourist in Harvard Yard with Harvard President Drew Faust.

Located on the banks of the Charles River next to the Weeks Footbridge, Dunster House is distinguished by its gold and crimson dome, which was modeled after the tower of Christ Church at Oxford.

Dermatologist Robert Sackstein has been awarded a prestigious $17 million grant from the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute of the National Institutes of Health.

The Damon Runyon Cancer Research Foundation, a nonprofit organization focused on supporting innovative early career researchers, has named 18 new Damon Runyon Fellows, including three from Harvard.

Harvard and the city of Boston open Library Park, a 1.74-acre green space in Allston.

The Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at Harvard Kennedy School has announced the 2011-12 Stanton Nuclear Security Fellows.

Library Park, Boston’s newest public space, situated behind the Honan-Allston Branch of the Boston Public Library, will open on Thursday (July 7). Harvard University will host a grand opening celebration from 4 to 5 p.m.

Four from Harvard’s heavyweight crew team defeated Oxford Brookes University to win the Prince Albert Challenge Cup at the Henley Royal Regatta on Sunday (July 3) on the River Thames.

This photo journal offers an in-depth exploration of Kirkland House.

Harvard University and Boston’s Allston-Brighton Resource Center host a job fair to connect local residents with Stone Hearth Pizza’s hiring managers.

Margarita Alegría, professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School, is the recipient of the 2011 Excellence in Hispanic Mental Health Research, Advocacy, and Leadership Award from the National Resource Center for Hispanic Mental Health.

Henry Louis Gates Jr., the Alphonse Fletcher University Professor and the director of the W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for African and African American Research at Harvard University, was honored with the 2011 Media Bridge-Builder Award from the Tanenbaum Center for Interreligious Understanding.

President Drew Faust speaks at Harvard’s historic Tercentenary Theater during Commencement afternoon exercises on May 26, 2011

Amy Poehler addresses the class of 2011 during Commencement week at Harvard’s history Tercentenary Theater.

Mary Lee Kennedy, executive director of knowledge and library services at Harvard Business School, has been named senior associate provost for the Harvard Library.

Lawrence S. Summers has been awarded the 2011 Global Economy Prize by the Kiel Institute for the World Economy.

The leaders of Harvard’s Allston Work Team discuss their recommendations on how the University might proceed in planning for its properties in the neighborhood.

Workers at Harvard’s Biological Laboratories organize a team to raise funds for cancer research, and to support ill colleague Eileen Snow.

Experience all the hard work and excitement that goes into setting up and closing down Commencement week in four minutes.

The Harvard University Allston Work Team presented its recommendations to Harvard President Drew Faust June 16. The report reaffirms the University’s commitment to Allston and points to development options in the next decade, including science facilities, housing, and a private-sector enterprise research campus.

From the oversize windows in the room called “the Fishbowl” at Currier House, you can see lush green grass and blossoming trees on alternate sloping hillsides.

Harvard University’s Sharad Ramanathan, assistant professor of molecular and cellular biology, has been named a Pew Scholar in the Biomedical Sciences.

Michael J. Sandel, the Harvard University political philosopher, is a rock star in Asia, and people in China, Japan and South Korea scalp tickets to hear him..

People who spend more hours in front of the television are at greater risk of dying, or developing diabetes and heart disease…

Harvard has been collecting things for a long time, probably beginning with the donation of a library by its namesake, John Harvard…

These photos offer an in-depth look into life at Winthrop House.

The Interfaculty Initiative in Health Policy has announced the 2011 recipients of the Cordeiro Health Policy Summer Research Grants.

Scientists have for the first time created laser light using living biological material: a single human cell and some jellyfish protein.

Boys who are bullies are nearly four times as likely as non-bullies to grow up to physically or sexually abuse their female partners