Campus & Community

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.

The Bureau of Study Counsel’s 14-day reading course is now open for registration.

The Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard has selected 25 journalists from the United States and abroad to join the 73rd class of Nieman Fellows. The group includes journalists who work in print, radio, television, photography, and online.

David Bor, Charles S. Davidson Associate Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School (HMS), was recently honored with the third annual Cambridge Health Alliance (CHA) Art of Healing Award.

Amidst the bustle of daily activities at Harvard, still lives of stone, bronze, iron, and glass surround us. Artistic and architectural details on campus boast a dizzying array of fine craftsmanship — both ornamental and functional — ranging across centuries. With the quiet calm of the attentive photographer, teacups, tomes, and the steadfast hands of a tuxedoed artist come into focus.

Harvard social studies major and ROTC member Christopher Higgins, 22, stumbled onto his passion in 2007 while interning at New Hope, an orphanage in Uganda

In her Commencement remarks, President Drew Faust celebrated the year’s achievements, which included expanded public service, blossoming arts programs, broadened community outreach, and myriad academic accomplishments. Here, she discusses the year that was, with, as backdrop, a photo diary of life at Harvard, which bookends students arriving with pillows and graduating with hugs.

Harvard University is extending medical and dental benefits to eligible employees’ dependents who otherwise would become ineligible for continued coverage. This extension began June 1.

Researchers at Harvard University find that overweight girls who lose weight before adulthood reduced their risk of diabetes.

Feminist icon Gloria Steinem accepts this year’s Radcliffe Institute Medal, bringing with her a sense of history, humor, and hope.