Campus & Community

About 20 children participated in an interactive session at the Honan-Allston Branch Library that outlined the creation of Library Park, which is slated to open next year. Construction is to begin next week.

As medical technologies extend the lives of the sickest, medical schools across the country have struggled to find a way to help doctors better navigate new moral quandaries around death and dying.

The Ivy League and Harvard University announced today that Harvard has declared an unintentional secondary violation in connection with conversations in the summer of 2007 between current assistant men’s basketball…

Barely a month into the world as a new Harvard College graduate, Loren Galler Rabinowitz has already skyrocketed to success as the new Miss Massachusetts.

About 100 current and former Crimson Summer Academy scholars gathered for a reunion barbecue, reveling in a rare chance to catch up with old friends, meet new ones, and reflect on how far they’ve come.

Groups band together to create a “green street” in Allston that embraces sustainable landscaping.

Six individuals have been selected for fall resident fellowships at the Harvard Kennedy School’s Institute of Politics.

At a Harvard “lawn swap,” everything was free, including a lesson on the environmental advantages of reusing office supplies and other goods.

Three quarters of the seven million jobs that have vanished in the recession belonged to men. The male unemployment rate is now 9.8 percent, vs. 8.1 percent for women. The…

This time, the Radcliffe art show at Byerly Hall is by staff members, and will be on display through the summer.

Eric S. Belsky, executive director of the Joint Center for Housing Studies, has been appointed managing director of the Center.

Harvard opens mini-golf course, batting cages for the Allston community.

One of the hottest television shows in Japan this spring revolved around Harvard professor Michael Sandel’s recorded classroom lectures about philosophy. NHK, Japan’s public broadcaster, picked up in April the…

Craig R. McCoy, an investigative reporter at the Philadelphia Inquirer, has won the 2010 I.F. Stone Medal for Journalistic Independence.

Six Harvard University graduate students are among the 13 local graduate students who will spend the summer working in key state agencies as Rappaport Public Policy Fellows.

In an increasingly globalized world, soccer both benefits and suffers from a player’s ability to leave his homeland and compete on an international stage.

The new Harvard Community Garden holds its first workday of the summer, and celebrates with salad.

Assistant Professor of Stem Cell and Regenerative Biology Fernando Camargo, Assistant Professor of Pathology at Harvard Medical School (HMS) Alexander Gimelbrant, and Sun Hur, assistant professor of biological chemistry and molecular pharmacology at HMS, have been named 2010 Pew Scholars in the biomedical sciences by the Pew Charitable Trusts.

Harvard opens community facility in Allston featuring mini-golf course and cages for practicing baseball, golf swings.

Harvard reopens its seasonal farmers’ markets with a bounty of fresh produce and local, handmade products.

University administrators gather to explore the issues surrounding the expansion of digital scholarship.

Cambridge and Harvard officials dedicate Riverside Community Park, the city’s newest open space, and the result of years of cooperative effort.

Fifty FAS staff members and managers receive first Dean’s Distinction awards, in recognition for strong contributions during difficult times.

Harvard faculty members and doctoral candidates are among those awarded fellowships and grants by the American Council of Learned Societies.

The National Humanities Center (NHC) recently named Harvard’s Suzannah Clark, Gardner Cowles Associate Professor of Music, and James Engell, Gurney Professor of English Literature and professor of comparative literature, among the 2010-11 class of 36 distinguished scholars.

The Faculty of Arts and Sciences Standing Committee on Mind/Brain/Behavior recognized seniors in a ceremony held at the Harvard Faculty Club on May 26.

James Bird, a graduate student at the Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, finds that bubbles just don’t disappear.

One undergraduate and two graduate students will receive the Howard T. Fisher Prize in Geographical Information Science.

The American Psychiatric Association honored McLean Hospital affiliates Paul J. Barreira and Martin P. Kafka on May 24 for their significant career accomplishments.

The Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation at the Harvard Kennedy School recently announced the students selected for Summer Fellowships in Innovation, research internships in Vietnam and Indonesia, as well as independent student research projects.