Campus & Community

65 staff members honored as Harvard Heroes for leadership, teamwork, willingness to go extra mile to make University better

Curator, educator, and scholar, now at RISD Museum, will start in new post Aug. 12

Harvard Alumni Day speakers highlight importance of connection to University community amid times of global discord

Spaulding Rehabilitation physiatrist, team taking new route, aim to set records 

Building refresh aims to boost accessibility, preserve historic character

Business leader Joseph Y. Bae ’94 and novelist Janice Y. K. Lee ’94 expand upon three decades of supporting academic excellence, opportunity at Harvard

Hoekstra, Faust, colleagues laud Robin Kelsey, who will step down from his arts and humanities deanship

Portrait honors Harvard’s first Black lacrosse player, whose 1941 benching in the South sparked outcry

Justice Sonia Sotomayor on importance of civic engagement, youth involvement, giving back

Institutional Voice Working Group provides a roadmap in new report

One journey behind them, grads pause to reflect before starting the next

Nobel Peace Prize-winning journalist puts values first in Commencement address focused on threats to democracy

Burns and others deliver call to action – and empathy – at Class Day ceremonies

Ringing of bells marks 373rd Commencement

Harvard recognizes educator, conductor, theoretical physicist, advocate for elderly, writer, and Nobel laureate

New officers ‘join a long crimson line that goes back to the very founding of this country.’

Totals reflect the 2023-24 academic year

President emerita invokes spirit of Emerson, pushes back against recent criticisms

‘Democracy dies quickly,’ warns Nobel laureate ahead of Commencement, where she hopes to find students committed to protecting it

Garber praises graduates’ resilience, urges them to maintain and cherish lasting bonds

Six others join Alumni Association board

Moitri Chowdhury Savard committed to listening deeply, respecting differences, finding common ground in shared values

Student Commencement speeches to tap into themes faced by Class of 2024

Longtime supporter of grads Kathy Hanley caps 13-year quest with a Commencement of her own

Class of ’24 gets a do-over on high school prom that pandemic took away

Three major events, including Psychedelics Bootcamp 2024, to be hosted over summer

Experiences in Uganda and U.S. fuel Ananda Birungi’s passion for empowering others, especially women and girls

Extension School allowed trapeze artist Izzy Patrowicz to pursue big-top dreams alongside bachelor’s degree

More of a ‘slide and a pivot’ than a rollback, Merhill says of rules set to take effect Aug. 1

Series of life-threatening medical problems changed Saif Kamal — but not his desire to pursue opportunity, help others do so too