Campus & Community

How Radcliffe became a hub of creativity that helped propel forward the women it engaged, and the women’s movement, in crucial ways.

Hadiza Hamma has a plan for the construction of a road that will dramatically improve the quality of life in Afaka, a town in her home country of Nigeria.

Harvard’s THUD makes rhythmic music with trash cans, buckets, cups — you name it. If it makes a sound, they can probably play it.

Radcliffe Institute panel explores the social roots of the denial of racism in America, and ways to raise awareness.

Results of first-ever study of Harvard Athletics to be used for strategic planning as program approaches centennial.

When neuroscience concentrator Sope Adeleye ’20 suffered a severe concussion during volleyball practice her junior year, she knew better than most the risks she was facing.

A contest has College seniors who spent months researching and writing their theses distill those hours of work and hundreds of pages of analysis into a 3-minute pitch.

Harvard grad Nathan Grant ’20 helps advocate for people with disabilities, and the people who support them.

Several Harvard Schools announce plans to continue offering classes online for the fall term.

As Harvard begins a phased reopening, University Librarian Martha Whitehead outlines how the libraries will reestablishes core services.

Kennedy School graduate Ariella Barker returns to her job as an attorney for the city of New York, where she’ll resume advocacy for disabled workers.

Chief financial officer offers updates on the University’s fiscal health and future plans amid the downturn triggered by the pandemic.

When Tom Osborn arrived at Harvard from Kenya, he was already an internationally recognized entrepreneur. Four years later, he’s launched a nonprofit that is boosting the grades and well-being of high-schoolers back home.

Radcliffe Day included a discussion between current dean of the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study Tomiko Brown-Nagin and former dean Drew Faust, who addressed the history and future of the institute.

For the first time in its history, the Harvard Graduate School of Design has four Native American students enrolled.

After 44 years at Harvard, Bob Scalise retires as John D. Nichols ’53 Family Director of Athletics, capping a tenure of accomplishment and change.

Texas teacher Shanna Peeples got more than a degree from the Harvard Graduate School of Education. “… it gave me this integration of so many things and it let me write myself into more authenticity,” she says.

Comedian Conan O’Brien ’85 addressed the Class of 2020 Thursday as part of an afternoon of virtual ceremonies that captured the joy, poignancy, and humor of the day.

Washington Post executive editor Martin Baron warned of the dangers of “misinformation, disinformation, delusions and deceit” as he joined an online celebration that sent the graduating Class of 2020 into an uncertain world.

Harvard University awarded a total of 8,174 degrees and certificates over the 2019–20 academic year.

Economist Talia Gillis held her own commencement ceremony while quarantined in her childhood home in Jerusalem, along with her husband and three children.

Michael Phillips will deliver the Senior English Address and Sana Raoof the Graduate English Address at Harvard’s Honoring the Class of 2020 on May 28.

Stories from Harvard faculty, students, and staff about work and life in the pandemic.

Alberto Alesina, the Nathaniel Ropes Professor of Political Economy and a member of the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), died at age 63.

Harvard’s graduation will look much different this year, but the University is preparing to take it in stride with a virtual celebration.

A compilation of memories from Harvard’s 2019-20 academic year.

Throughout her academic career — from Princeton University to University of Cambridge, and finally Harvard — Christina Chang, Ph.D. ’20, has worked toward a more sustainable world one invention at a time.

Harvard Alumni Association President Alice Hill ’81, Ph.D. ’91, reminds the Class of 2020 that they are “part of a community … that reaches to all parts of the world,” encouraging them maintain the connection.

A look at how the coronavirus pandemic upended classes and life at Harvard, when the University sent students back home and began online learning, in an extraordinary measure that has only one precedent in its 384-year history.

Despite COVID-19, the sound of the Lowell House bells can still be heard from a distance