Campus & Community

Harvard Law School Professor Jonathan Zittrain ’95 has been appointed to the faculty of the Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences as professor of computer science.

In the survey, led by the Harvard Graduate School of Education, women reported less satisfaction with reasonableness of scholarship expectations for tenure, whether their institutions make raising children and the tenure track compatible and the way they spend their time as faculty, among others…

In the three years since its inception, the volunteer Green Team at the Harvard Graduate School of Education — 15 students, faculty, and staff — has made significant strides.

Partners In Health, the Boston-based global health initiative that has been the face of health care in Haiti after the devastating earthquake six months ago, is building a new teaching hospital there.

Harvard appoints Anne H. Margulies as chief information officer. A seasoned executive with 30 years of experience, her hiring marks her return to the University.

Harvard appoints Anne H. Margulies as chief information officer. A seasoned executive with 30 years of experience, her hiring marks her return to the University.

The Harvard Club of Australia Foundation is accepting applications for its 2011 Australia-Harvard Fellowships, awards aimed at midcareer and senior Harvard-based science and technology researchers intending collaborative projects in Australia.

Nine rising seniors pursuing a secondary field in health policy have been awarded Cordeiro Health Policy Summer Research Grants by the Interfaculty Initiative in Health Policy.

Master swimmers will race in the Charles River, where one Harvard professor sees an opportunity for lessons.

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.