Campus & Community

Deeneaus ‘D’ Polk, M.P.P. ’20, found his way from Mississippi to Harvard Kennedy School via Germany — but his plan is to return to the South and bring opportunity to jobseekers.

Juan Reynoso will be the second Harvard student to have completed a new joint Master in Public Health/Master in Urban Planning degree program.

Erin McDermott has been named the John D. Nichols ’53 Family Director of Athletics, Harvard announced today.

Akshaya Annapragada, who will graduate with an A.B. in applied mathematics and an S.M. in engineering sciences-bioengineering, with a secondary in global health and health policy at the John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, arrived at Harvard eager to develop better medical tools.

Novelist Colson Whitehead joins William Faulkner, John Updike, and Booth Tarkington as the fourth to garner the Pulitzer Prize for fiction award twice.

Harvard University Dining Services has emptied its freezers and storerooms to provide food to area nonprofit grocery programs.

Five faculty members have been named Harvard College Professors for their contributions to undergraduate teaching.

David Joselit joined the department of Art, Film, and Visual Studies this semester as a professor of visual studies.

COVID-19 spurs inspiration in student volunteers who find ways to make a difference amid the pandemic’s disruption and loss

Martin Chávez and Beth Karlan to occupy senior posts on Harvard University’s Board of Overseers for the 2020–21 academic year.

How Harvard faculty and staff continue to adapt to social distancing as they stay the course.

Meet Katie Klatt — pediatric intensive care unit nurse, M.P.H. student at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, and recovered COVID-19 patient.

Richard McMasters Hunt, a faculty member in social studies for 42 years and University Marshal for two decades, died on April 10 at the age of 93.

How some Harvard professors are integrating the coronavirus crisis into their curricula.

It didn’t turn out at all the way they thought it would. Being asked to quickly leave campus and return home last month amid the mushrooming coronavirus outbreak was painful…

Harvard has launched a new grant program that will provide emergency funding to nonprofit organizations responding to COVID-19-related community needs serving the Allston-Brighton neighborhood of Boston.

Campus friend groups remain close, even if not geographically. So they’ve had to make adjustments to keep in touch.

Students in Mark Fagan’s supply chain management course spent the spring semester using their skills to help the front lines of the COVID-19 crisis.

The American Academy of Arts & Sciences announced its newest members, which include 15 members of Harvard faculty and staff.

William V. Giannobile, an alumnus of the Harvard School of Dental Medicine, has been named its new dean. An expert in periodontics and oral medicine, Giannobile succeeds Bruce Donoff, who stepped down from the post in 2019 after 28 years.

The first Harvard Library-wide crowdsourcing transcription project is seeking volunteers to help transcribe the handwritten materials from the University’s 18th-century North America Collection.

Virtual workout classes help the community stay connected and healthy while social distancing.

Director William “Ned” Friedman explains the rationale for keeping the Arboretum open during the pandemic.

John Campbell discusses Harvard’s new plan to have its endowment reflect net-zero greenhouse-gas emissions by 2050.

Harvard Innovation Labs announced the 2020 President’s Innovation Challenge finalists who will be awarded a total of $510,000 at a virtual ceremony in May.

Socialize Remotely allows students, faculty, and staff to continue attending a range of extracurricular activities, and to connect.

In an announcement Tuesday, Harvard signaled its expanding commitment to attacking climate change with a dramatic new pledge to drastically reduce emissions in its investment portfolio so Harvard’s endowment can achieve “net-zero” emissions by 2050.

Members of the new Presidential Committee on Sustainability discuss why it is so important to act now to address climate change, the committee’s role in developing collaborative and innovative projects, and how community members can get involved.

Harvard Professor Michael Sandel led a campuswide audience in a Zoom event, “Harvard Live: Pandemic Ethics.”

The Gazette reached out to members of the Harvard community as they entered their second month of social isolation to find out what they are reading, watching, doing, and listening to in the age of coronavirus.