Campus & Community
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Not so much the form, but the function
Brutalist, iconic Gund Hall undergoes 1st major renovation since opening in ’72. Now, hopefully, the roof will stop leaking.
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Updating their 3-word bios
Juniors who talked to us when they first arrived here — and again as sophomores — reflect on how they’ve changed
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Rhodes scholars share their Oxford ambitions
8 students to pursue social, political, computational sciences
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He didn’t come all this way to lose to Yale
Dream job and a winning season for Aurich, but one big test remains: The Game.
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Ketanji Brown Jackson? Present!
Supreme Court justice revisits Michael Sandel’s class, which left her with lessons that lasted long beyond her time in it as first-year
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Harvard, MIT, Mass General form renewable energy collaboration
Group will include higher education, healthcare, and cultural institutions, seek to leverage buying power to advance cost-effective, green production projects
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New institute to unite, advance Harvard efforts to stem tide of climate crisis
Gift from Melanie and Jean Salata to fund Salata Institute for Climate and Sustainability.
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Larry Bacow, University’s 29th president, to step down next June
The 29th president of Harvard University announced that he will depart on June 30, 2023.
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9 months in, University CIO sees security, new tech advances ahead
Harvard Vice President and CIO Klara Jelinkova talks about the digital pivot Harvard had to make during the pandemic, lessons learned from it, and the growing threat of cybercrime.
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A new day of celebration
Harvard graduates from around the world return to campus for Harvard Alumni Day.
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Many happy returns
In-person Commencement gives Classes of ’20 and ’21 a chance to reconnect, joyfully, and reflect on years of friendship, growth .
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Triple the joy
Festive rites and poignant moments as Classes of 2022, 2021, and 2020 gather to mark milestone.
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A call to public service
The Classes of 2020 and 2021 finally got their day under the trees of Tercentenary Theatre Sunday morning.
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Time of ‘democracy in crisis’
NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund leader urges steps to rescue democracy.
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Ardern’s forceful reminder: Democracies can die
New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern delivers warning on erosion of trust in her Commencement address, urging social media reforms and calling on individuals to reject tribalism.
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Embracing the moment
Parents, friends, and scores of proud graduates gather to celebrate hard-earned Commencement.
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Seven alumni elected to the Board of Overseers
Seven alumni have been elected as new members of Harvard University’s Board of Overseers and six as directors of the Harvard Alumni Association (HAA).
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Harvard awards 8,870 degrees
At the ceremony honoring the Class of 2022, the University awarded a total of 8,870 degrees and certificates.
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Harvard to award seven honorary degrees
During today’s Commencement ceremony in Tercentenary Theatre, Harvard will recognize seven with an honorary degree.
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Pursuit of joy starts with truth, Wu tells graduates
Class Day speaker Michelle Wu ’07, J.D. ’12, urged the class of 2022 to hold fast to Harvard’s founding motto “veritas,” or truth.
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Newly minted military officers warned of global threats to democracy
Chairman of Joint Chiefs Mark Milley swears in Harvard ROTC cadets, midshipmen.
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Finding hurdles, stepping up
Emerging from two years of strict COVID-19 policies, Harvard welcomed back all in-person classes and on-campus activities. A timeline marks the highlights of the 2021-22 academic year.
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Bacow urges seniors to embrace the unexpected
On Tuesday, Harvard seniors filed into Tercentenary Theatre to attend the Baccalaureate ceremony, which had been canceled for the past two years due to COVID.
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Skocpol tells PBK students: World of trouble awaits you. Fight to fix it.
The 230th Phi Beta Kappa Literary Exercises were held Tuesday at Sanders Theatre.
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United by lockdown, divided by ‘Seinfeld’
For Harvard student Phiroze Parasnis and his family, isolated in Mumbai, time spent together made up for lost time.
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Break down walls. Vanquish villains. Stand up and speak out. Facts and truth matter.
Ahead of Commencement ceremonies this week, we revisit inspiring messages from past speakers.
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Gates recognized by University of Cambridge
Henry Louis Gates Jr., Alphonse Fletcher University Professor and director of the Hutchins Center for African & African American Research, has been conferred an honorary degree, Litt.D., from the University of Cambridge, his alma mater.
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Taking lessons from epic, everyday
Three student orators will deliver speeches to celebrate the Class of 2022 on Commencement Day on May 26. A student orator will deliver the Latin Salutatory on Sunday, May 29, to honor the Classes of 2020 and 2021.
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Bill Lee on two decades of Harvard progress
William F. Lee will step down June 30 after nearly two decades of service on the University’s governing boards. In an interview with the Gazette, Lee reflected on his time in Harvard’s leadership.
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Looking up
Photographer captures the campus details that often go over our heads.
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Good days, tough days
Anastasia Onyango, her nurse mother, rising first-year sister wrestled with COVID anxieties, cabin fever, reckoning over race — and brother’s board games.
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Police chief recalls his first year of pandemic, progress
A year into the job, Chief Victor Clay says the University’s police department has made strides in accountability, transparency, and diversity.
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Not only game
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.
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Getting through it together
Before COVID, a cancer diagnosis. Here’s how one Harvard student and his family grew closer even as the world seemed to come apart.
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Good with left brain but invested in right as well
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.
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Community by design
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.