Campus & Community

A young Harvard architect, with an eye to other cultures, challenges his profession to use design to end poverty and spur social justice.

Setbacks in her ski racing career set Marguerite Thorp on the path to serving her passion for global health and social justice.

Jason Harrow argued his team to victory in Harvard Law School’s prestigious moot court competition. But his biggest test came in a real federal courtroom, where Harrow took up a high-profile case against the music industry.

Viewing all life as interconnected, Australian equine specialist Mark Schembri will use his degree from the Harvard School of Public Health to help humans and animals live healthier.

Charlie Albright — “among the most gifted musicians of his generation,” according to The Washington Post — has excelled in Harvard’s joint program with the New England Conservatory and is on track to receive a master’s of music in piano performance next year.

Comedian Amy Poehler addressed Harvard’s graduating seniors on Class Day, peppering her remarks with humor and humble words of wisdom.

The University gets ready to celebrate its classic values, as well as its recent innovative momentum in the sciences, public service, diversity, internationalism, and the arts. Oct. 14 will be the launch of the official 375th anniversary.

In its first expansion in more than three centuries, the Harvard Corporation will add three new members this July. They are Lawrence S. Bacow, Susan L. Graham, and Joseph J. O’Donnell. The appointments were announced May 25.

On the eve of Commencement, three Harvard students become military officers during the annual ROTC commissioning ceremony.

With a victory over heavily favored Notre Dame on May 1 in Pittsburgh, the Radcliffe Rugby Football Club claimed the 2011 USA Rugby Division II National Championship. It was an astonishing success for a team whose future seemed uncertain only a few years ago.

Master’s recipient Lena Eisen proves that having a child and going to graduate school at the same time can make for a workable adventure.

For the past decade, the Harvard Business School Portrait Project has asked graduating M.B.A.s the question once posed by poet Mary Oliver: “Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?” The answers are often surprising.

Invoking the legacy of the late Rev. Peter J. Gomes, Harvard President Drew Faust’s Baccalaureate Address urged graduates to veer from scripts and write their own post-college endings.

Once a Harvard and pro football star, Business School grad Isaiah Kacyvenski is ready to tackle fresh challenges.

The first act of Commencement honored graduating seniors during a Phi Beta Kappa ceremony, with Joyce Carol Oates and Henri Cole as speakers.

The Institute of Politics at Harvard Kennedy School has added another prominent political practitioner to its Senior Advisory Committee: David Axelrod.

Sociologist Bruce Western has been named faculty director at Harvard Kennedy School’s Malcolm Wiener Center for Social Policy.

The Harvard Environmental Economics Program has awarded three prizes to Harvard students for the best research papers addressing a topic in environmental, energy, or resource economics.

The development of quality homes for the residents of the 40-year-old, 213-unit Charlesview Apartment complex at Barry’s Corner took a big step forward when city, state, and Harvard officials broke ground on a new building at Brighton Mills on May 16.

In the face of acts of profound violence — including the murder of her brother — Danielle Gram ’11 has chosen to make peace her life’s work.

Graduating senior Kevin Shee threw himself into Harvard’s dance scene after arriving as a freshman, but he leaves after nourishing a second love — science — that will take him to a research career after graduation.

Seven students from Harvard have been named Rappaport Public Policy Fellows and two are named Radcliffe/Rappaport Doctoral Policy Fellows.

Steven E. Hyman, who is stepping down after leading Harvard’s sweeping expansion into interdisciplinary research, recalls the challenges and changes of his long tenure.

The renewal of Old Quincy, the neo-Georgian section of that student House, will re-create the space as more comfortable, modern, and better able to host academic and social activities. The project will begin next May and wrap up in the summer of 2013.

Harvard Extension School will host a general information session on June 15 from 5 to 9 p.m. in Memorial Hall and the Science Center.

Harvard Kennedy School faculty member Swanee Hunt will receive a Women of Distinction Award at the National Conference for College Women Student Leaders.

As a member of two proactive groups, Ablorde Ashigbi ’11 has spent much of his College career trying to make a difference. His work has helped to improve public health and business opportunities in Africa, and has offered a chance to explore approaches to education reform in the United States.

Information on restrooms, parking, first aid, and more for those attending Harvard’s Commencement on May 26.

Donald B. Rubin, John L. Loeb Professor of Statistics, has been awarded an honorary doctorate by the Otto-Friedrich-Universität Bamberg.

Venkatesh (Venky) Narayanamurti, Benjamin Peirce Professor of Technology and Public Policy at the Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, has been elected as a foreign secretary of the National Academy of Engineering.