Campus & Community

Instead of painting a mural together, this year students in the Harvard Ed Portal’s Mural Club produced individual works of art with virtual guidance from their instructors, local artist Chanel Thervil and Harvard undergraduate Gabi Maduro Salvarrey.

With COVID-19 leading some to defer enrollment, the yield among students accepted to the Class of 2024 has dropped from 84 percent to 81 percent.

A former Overseer and the executive director of the Harvard Alumni Association discuss the work of the HAA nominating committees.

Boston mayor discusses $12 million antiracism public health initiative at Harvard Chan School series.

John West, M.B.A. ’95, says teamwork, bridging differences, and consensus-building have shaped his approach to life — and will remain guiding principles when he begins his term as president of…

As he prepares to retire after 52 years, Harvard Law School’s Laurence H. Tribe retraces his journey from awkward immigrant math whiz to leading constitutional law scholar and admired professor.

A group of local high school students worked on original astrophysics research projects through the Harvard-MIT Science Research Mentoring Program.

Deborah Washington Brown, the first Black woman to earn an applied math Ph.D. from Harvard’s School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, passed away June 5.

This year’s winners of grants from the Harvard Culture Lab Innovation Fund range from an online race research and policy portal to mentoring technology called SySTEMatic.

Harvard now has three tenured female professors in its Math Department

Students activate, donate in movement to fight inequity, promote police reform.

Gazette photographer Kris Snibbe captures the four seasons at Harvard, paying tribute to Vivaldi.

Sherri Ann Charleston, a diversity expert and a lawyer and historian trained in race and constitutional issues, will become Harvard’s chief diversity and inclusion officer on Aug. 1.

Faculty of Arts and Sciences dean announces three potential scenarios for fall in an interim report to the community Monday that also confirmed online teaching will continue for the upcoming academic year.

Nancy Coleman has been named the next dean of Harvard’s Division of Continuing Education, succeeding Huntington D. Lambert, who retired in December 2019.

John Silvanus Wilson, senior adviser and strategist to President Larry Bacow, announced the 2020‒2021 grants recipients of the Harvard Culture Lab Innovation Fund (HCLIF).

Somerville nonprofit Artisan’s Asylum will move to Harvard property in Allston, where it will make medical gowns used as personal protective equipment.

After long negotiations, Harvard University and the leadership of the Harvard Graduate Student Union United Auto Workers (HGSU-UAW), which represents more than 4,000 students, have agreed to the terms of a one-year contract.

Profiles of eight current members of the Board of Overseers who share their unique stories of experience and service.

Harvard faculty offer recommendations of books on race everyone should read.

Dani Rodrik, Ford Foundation Professor of International Political Economy at Harvard’s John F. Kennedy School of Government, has been awarded the 2020 Princess of Asturias Award for Social Sciences.

Nearly 2,000 faculty and staff from the FAS Division of Science and the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences got back to their labs this week

In a Q&A session, Vice Provost for Advances in Learning Bharat Anand discusses how Harvard is planning for a fall semester largely online.

Harvard senior Lauren Spohn heads to the University of Oxford after graduation to keep exploring the ways in which stories can connect us all.

Harvard Science takes part in #ShutDownAcademia, #ShutDownSTEM, and #Strike4BlackLives

Blythe George is the first member of the Yurok Tribe of Northern California to earn a doctoral degree from Harvard Graduate School of Arts and Sciences.

Faculty deans have been appointed to Cabot, Quincy, Winthrop, Eliot, and Kirkland Houses, effective July 1.

The son of Latin American immigrants, Hainer Sibrian, M.P.P. ’20, is set to launch a career as a U.S. diplomat, inspired by study abroad during Arab Spring.

A discussion about Harvard’s secret court is the first in a series of discussions planned to mark the secretive tribunal’s centennial.

The Gazette checked in with students scattered across the globe to see what they and their families have been cooking.