Campus & Community

President Drew Faust invites the Harvard community to join her and Charlie Gibson, former host of ABC’s “Good Morning America” and now a visitor at the Kennedy School’s Shorenstein Center, for a year-opening conversation on Sept. 21 at 4 p.m. in Sanders Theatre.

Harvard’s pre-orientation programs point incoming freshmen to the city, the country, and the campus in an effort to give students a head start on adjusting to college life by building community through the outdoors, the arts, and more.

Harvard’s leaders welcomed the Class of 2014 Tuesday (Aug. 31), in a convocation ceremony filled with pomp and circumstance. They urged the new students to use their College years as a time to experiment, learn, and discover.

Harvard President Drew Faust opened the first Morning Prayers of the new school year with a message of inclusion for both the University and its students.

Harvard convocation ceremony welcomes the Class of 2014.

Harvard goes into overdrive in the summer months with a new crop of students ready to learn, and a variety of outreach programs developed for the local community.

As of Sept. 1, members of the Harvard community will have everything they need to know about the University in the palms of their hands. Harvard has launched a strategic mobile initiative to package content from across the University for display on handheld devices.

Families arrive at Harvard to move their students into dorms for the start of the fall semester.

College Dean Evelynn Hammonds welcomes families of the Class of 2014 to campus.

Harvard researchers working with NASA’s Kepler satellite reported Thursday that they might have spotted a planet just 1.5 times the diameter of Earth around a Sun-like star 2,000 light-years away…

Three 30-something Harvard researchers win TR35 technology honors for their innovative, world-shaping work.

The Earthwatch Institute will bring its scientists to the Allston-Brighton community on Aug. 30 for a discussion titled “Saving the Penguins of Robben Island, South Africa.”

Researchers from the National Institutes of Health, the Food and Drug Administration and Harvard Medical School link chronic fatigue syndrome to a retrovirus

The Harvard University Police Department is releasing its annual Clery Act Report titled “Playing it Safe.”

Benjamin Kaplan, the Royall Professor of Law Emeritus at Harvard Law School (HLS) and a former justice of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court, died on Aug. 18.

Felda Hardymon, M.B.A. ’79, the M.B.A. Class of 1975 Professor of Management Practice at Harvard Business School, has received a Lifetime Achievement in Venture Capital Award from the National Venture Capital Association.

The 180-voice Harvard-Radcliffe Chorus is holding auditions for all voice parts on Sept. 4 and 5.

The American Political Science Association has recognized three Harvard affiliates for excellence in the study, teaching, and practice of politics.

The Harvard Management Company’s most recent filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission details changes in holdings, as is routine, but no change in policy. The University has not…

Harvard graduate Alexander J. Berman ’10 has been awarded a Fulbright U.S. Student Program scholarship to Russia in filmmaking, the Department of State and the J. William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board announced recently.

Harvard was voted as the league favorite in the Ivy League preseason media poll, released today (Aug. 10) as part of the league’s annual football media day.

Researchers at Harvard Medical School (HMS) find that people’s brain rhythms during sleep may hold the answer to sleeping through loud noise.

Emily Gardel, a Ph.D. candidate in applied physics at the Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS), has been awarded a three-year Department of Energy Office of Science Graduate Fellowship.

Members of the Harvard Union of Clerical and Technical Workers ratified a two-year contract with the University that guarantees modest wage increases, and provides policy improvements on key issues such as layoff selections.

Harvard hosts hundreds of senior elderly residents from Cambridge at the 35th Annual Senior Picnic at Tercentenary Theatre.

More than three dozen Harvard graduates will join Teach for America this fall, as the University remains among the nation’s top contributors to the national education program.

Members of Professor Ann Pearson’s lab switched from science to art recently, decorating the slate panels outside the Hoffman Laboratory with depictions of three great eras in Earth’s history: the Paleozoic, Mesozoic, and Cenozoic.

Archaeologist Adrian Staehli, whose work has challenged conventional interpretations of nudity and the human body in ancient Greek and Roman art, has been named James Loeb Professor of Classical Archaeology at Harvard University, effective next Jan. 1.

Harvard-led study shows children, whether rich or poor, who were in top-scoring kindergarten classes back in the 1980s have grown up to earn about $1,000 more a year than their peers in weaker performing classes…

The U.S. State Department has reversed its decision to deny a visa to leading Colombian journalist Hollman Morris. He is now free to travel to the United States, where he will begin a yearlong fellowship at the Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard University.