Campus & Community

Five alumni have been elected as new members of Harvard University’s Board of Overseers and six as directors of the Harvard Alumni Association (HAA).

Walter Charles Carrington ’52, J.D. ’55, passed away on Aug. 11 at the age of 90. Carrington was a former U.S. ambassador to Senegal and Nigeria and civil rights activist.

Harvard ramps up sample COVID-19 testing on campus.

Provost Alan M. Garber and Executive Director of Harvard University Health Services Giang Nguyen outline details of plan to bring students back on campus safely.

The dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences announced an anti-racism agenda prioritizing six areas of action.

Harsh Sinha ’20 visited more than 80 countries during time at Harvard College. His goal is to be the youngest person to have visited 50 states in the U.S., as well as 100 of the U.N.-recognized nations.

With COVID-19 keeping children out of theater camp, Creative Drama — Space Explorers, a free, weeklong summer camp put on by the American Repertory Theater and Harvard Ed Portal brought theater camp to them.

Thomas J. Hollister, Harvard’s vice president for finance and chief financial officer, explains the Harvard Corporation’s revised endowment guidance for the 2021 fiscal year.

Maryna Macdonald is a defender with the women’s ice hockey team and a member of British Columbia’s Ditidaht First Nation.

Harvard has enacted two interim policies in response to the Department of Education’s recent changes to Title IX regulations against sex discrimination.

110 incoming first-year students participated in SPARK, a public-service summer program based in their hometowns. The Gazette spoke with nine of them.

As students prepare for an academic year that will be entirely virtual, many Harvard faculty members have redesigned their courses.

Harvard has launched a nationwide search to hire the University’s next chief of police.

The Tuition Assistance Program lets eligible Harvard employees advance their education for as little as $40 a class.

Professor Bernard Bailyn, a Pulitzer Prize-winning historian who reframed our understanding of colonial America, dies at 97.

How Harvard faculty are inventing ways to make “hard-to-teach” courses work online.

Harvard is testing those who return regularly to campus for COVID-19 at two locations, including Harvard Stadium in Allston. Here are photos of how it’s working.

Harvard School of Dental Medicine welcomed the Class of 2024 doctor of dental medicine students during a Monday orientation.

Harvard ornithologist Scott V. Edwards bicycles across the nation, raising awareness of Black Birders Week and Black Lives Matter.

Harvard faculty shape online classes to engage with COVID, race reckoning, election, and beyond.

Annette Gordon-Reed, the Charles Warren Professor of American History at Harvard Law School and professor of history in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, has been named a University Professor, Harvard’s highest faculty honor.

Macroeconomist and Harvard Professor Emmanuel Farhi, who made important contributions to real-world fiscal policy, died unexpectedly on July 23 at 41 years old.

Flour Bakery owner Joanne Chang ’91 makes sticky-bun popcorn for the Gazette in her own kitchen.

Provost’s Task Force on Managing Student Mental Health details eight recommendations that address a mix of social, academic, and institutional issues.

Michael Ashley Stein, J.D. ’88, addressed what Harvard has done since then to expand accessibility on its campuses, and provided perspective on what challenges and opportunities lie ahead.

Jaidyn Probst ’23 of Redwood Falls, Minn., Maarten de Vries ’21 of Elten, Germany, and Luke Walker ’22 of Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago, share what life is like back home in the Postcard From Here series.

100 library staff return to Harvard’s campus as physical collection access resumes.

Across Harvard’s campuses, non-COVID-19 work is resuming, labs are reopening, and scientists are settling into life in the “new normal.”

Harvard awards $1 million in grants to projects that aim to accelerate progress toward a healthier, more sustainable world.

Excerpt from “The Equivalents: A Story of Art, Female Friendship, and Liberation in the 1960s” by Maggie Doherty.