Campus & Community

Using robotic telescopes and other engaging astronomy activities, researchers at the Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian hope to spark interest in the sciences.

The launch of the new Harvard Athletics Video Vault makes it possible for sports fans to relive some of the University’s most historic sporting moments.

Graduate Rajna Swaminathan has spent the better part of her life exploring, improvising, and bringing together different worlds — in music and in life.

Steven A. Chambers, Ed.L.D. ’21, likes a challenge, even if it is figuring out how to educate children when indoor classrooms aren’t an option.

New Harvard dining services director brings focus on nutrition, sustainability, inclusion.

Five faculty members join the ranks of Harvard College Professors.

New faculty deans at Adams House, Mercedes Becerra and Salmaan Keshavjee, will begin July 1.

HMS students share how coronavirus and the pandemic changed their expectations and experiences of the last year.

Starting in fall, Harvard sophomores can join I-HUM and USI for intense focus on humanities.

This self-described “germophobe” shifts from medicine to key research investigating obesity, inflammation, and metabolic diseases.

Professor Melanie Wood has won the Alan T. Waterman Award, becoming the first woman ever to receive it in mathematics.

For Kobie Gordon, M.M.Sc. ’21, the ability of dentists to transform lives by fixing smiles was a superpower he wanted to possess.

Whether building an aircraft or learning to break dance, Harvard College student Robert Malate chose his own path.

Matthew Ichihashi Potts, a professor of religious studies and literature, an Episcopal priest, and an active member of the Harvard community, has been named Pusey Minister in the Memorial Church and Plummer Professor of Christian Morals, effective July 1.

Thirteen winners of the 10th annual Harvard President’s Innovation Challenge awarded $510,000 from Bertarelli Foundation.

At a Meeting of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences on May 4, 2021, the Minute honoring the life and service of the late Nathan Glazer, Professor of Education and Social Structure, Emeritus, was placed upon the records. Professor Glazer greatly influenced scholarship on American culture and ethnicity.

At a Meeting of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences on May 4, 2021, the Minute honoring the life and service of the late Richard Newell Cooper, Maurits C. Boas Professor of International Economics, was placed upon the records. Professor Cooper was particularly known for his seminal work on the theory and practice of international macroeconomic policy cooperation.

When she came to Harvard as a first-year, Danielle Davis ’21 thought music was her focus … until engineering piqued her interest.

Harvard Business School student Shyamli Badgaiyan was among those who helped quickly mobilize a cross-university fundraising effort that has already raised more than $160,000 to help India battle COVID-19.

Four Harvard faculty were among the 120 members elected to the National Academy of Sciences.

Athlete, philanthropist, and the star behind “Linsanity,” Jeremy Lin ’10 has been named Class Day speaker by the Harvard College Class of 2021.

Samantha Fletcher, Ed.M.’21, figured out a way to combine her passions for equity, education, and media when she started Harvard Graduate School of Education’s Technology, Innovation, and Education Program this past fall. Now she’s ready to change the world.

Growing up in central Indiana, Gayatri Balasubramanian focused on academics and music, but when she came to Harvard she wanted to take on new challenges — and she did.

Yoseph Boku’s drive to make a difference started his first year at Harvard, when he realized he could help local disadvantaged teenagers and young adults.

Stefanie Stantcheva was named a 2021 Andrew Carnegie Fellow, along with 25 others

Victor Clay has been appointed as the new chief of the Harvard University Police Department. Clay comes to Harvard from the California Institute of Technology, where he was chief of campus security and parking services.

Victor Clay, a law enforcement professional with more than 35 years of experience, has been named the next chief of the Harvard University Police Department (HUPD).

Since the beginning of the coronavirus outbreak, the Gazette has periodically checked in with Thomas J. Hollister, Harvard’s vice president for finance and chief financial officer, for updates on how the pandemic has affected the University’s finances.

Helena Buonanno Foulkes, a leader in consumer health care and retail, has been elected president of Harvard University’s Board of Overseers for the 2021-22 academic year. P. Lindsay Chase-Lansdale, a developmental psychologist and former vice provost for academics at Northwestern University, will be vice chair of the board’s executive committee.

The pandemic sent Jessica Miller ’21 home to West Virginia, where she found herself coping with remote classes while also helping her community through her work as an EMT. It helped her stay connected, she says.