Campus & Community

Anastasia Onyango, her nurse mother, rising first-year sister wrestled with COVID anxieties, cabin fever, reckoning over race — and brother’s board games. 

A year into the job, Chief Victor Clay says the University’s police department has made strides in accountability, transparency, and diversity.

Aubree Muse graduated from the College in December 2021. She was recruited by Harvard to play on the softball team but had to quit the sport after she had spine surgery to remove a tumor inside a lumbar vertebra.

Before COVID, a cancer diagnosis. Here’s how one Harvard student and his family grew closer even as the world seemed to come apart.

Brian Bertrand plans to use what he learned from his degree in statistics and in Harvard’s Theater, Dance & Media program to help arts organizations maximize their success.

The first alum of the Harvard Graduate School of Design to serve as HAA president, Allyson Mendenhall ’90, M.L.A. ’99, is committed to creating inclusive alumni experiences.

For Lucy Wickings ’22, a homeless, first-gen student, it was all uphill. Next she’s looking to help others.

Tyler Patrick, J.D.’22, is pursuing a joint program and will earn a J.D. at Harvard Law and M.P.A. at Princeton this year. He was commissioned as a Marine Corps officer in June of last year.

Katie Lapp, who has served as Harvard’s executive vice president since 2009, will step down from the role this summer.

Three Harvard Medical School scientists are among the 150 individuals recently elected to the National Academy of Sciences in recognition of their distinguished and continuing achievements in original research.

Physics Professor Norman Yao describes his journey in quantum physics.

Paul Choi ’86, J.D. ’89, has been elected president of Harvard University’s Board of Overseers for the 2022–23 academic year. Leslie Tolbert ’73, Ph.D. ’78, will serve as vice chair of the board’s executive committee.

The President’s Innovation Challenge Awards Ceremony showcased solutions for some of the world’s most pressing problems. Winning ventures received a share of $510,000 in Bertarelli Foundation prizes.

New Medford City Councilor and Harvard senior Justin Tseng understands that many national issues are rooted in local problems.

Khaled El-Rouayheb, Ju Yon Kim, and James Mickens have been named Harvard College Professors. The professorships provide support for professional development.

The Division of Continuing Education celebrated the 10th anniversary of its Professional Development Programs with the grand opening of its expanded space at One Brattle Square.

At a meeting of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences on May 3, 2022, the following tribute to the life and service of the late Steven Edgar Ozment was spread upon the permanent records of the Faculty.

At a meeting of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences on May 3, 2022, the following tribute to the life and service of the late Albert Morton Craig was spread upon the permanent records of the Faculty.

At a meeting of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences on May 3, 2022, the following tribute to the life and service of the late Emmanuel Farhi was spread upon the permanent records of the Faculty.

For the first time since 2020, Arts First returned to live performances on Harvard’s campus.

Acclaimed salsa singer and composer Rubén Blades, LL.M. ’85, also known as the “Poet of Salsa,” was awarded the 2022 Harvard Arts Medal in a ceremony at Sanders Theatre.

Swimming star Felicia Pasadyn graduates early with highest student-athlete GPA at NCAA Championships.

Harvard Radcliffe Institute held a daylong conference, “Telling the Truth About All This: Reckoning with Slavery and Its Legacies at Harvard and Beyond,” on Friday.

Sixteen Harvard faculty are among the 261 American Academy of Arts & Sciences newly elected members, the academy announced Thursday.

Harvard Kennedy School grad Alena Vachnová has been using her passion and skills for ending homelessness to help the Ukrainian refugees who have sought safety in her home city of Kosice, Slovakia.

Historic Boston leader selected for being “defender of equity, inclusion, opportunity.”

Annual festival of campus creativity to feature theater, dance, music, spoken word, interactive art over four days.

University leadership accepts recommendations of report with $100 million pledge.

Harvard researchers will share nearly $1 million in funding to pursue high-risk, high-reward projects from using zircons to explore the earliest life on Earth to creating next-generation painkillers.

Harvard vows long-term commitment to improve lives, futures of descendant communities through research, education, service.