Campus & Community

Actress and director Bryce Dallas Howard is the 2019 winner of the theatrical company’s annual award.

Harvard President Larry Bacow talks about his leadership journey and the lessons along the way.

Harvard Wintersession students picked up new skills during the break with classes that ranged from joke-writing to synthetic biology.

Milo Ventimiglia has been named Hasty Pudding’s 2019 Man of the Year.

Robert W. Iuliano, Harvard’s senior vice president, general counsel, and deputy to the president, has been selected as Gettysburg College’s 15th president.

On Feb. 2, the Phillips Brooks House Center for Public Service and Engaged Scholarship will host the eighth annual Public Interested Conference, a daylong program that brings students and alumni together.

U.S. poet laureate Tracy K. Smith ’94 will be awarded the 2019 Harvard Arts Medal by Harvard President Larry Bacow in a May 2 ceremony.

The Hasty Pudding Theatricals, the oldest theatrical organization in the United States, has named Bryce Dallas Howard as its Woman of the Year.

Roy Glauber, the pioneering theoretical physicist who received the 2005 Nobel Prize in physics, died on Dec. 26. He was 93.

Harvard University Housing (HUH) manages approximately 3,000 apartments, offering a broad choice of locations, unit types, amenities, and sizes to meet the individual budgets and housing needs of eligible Harvard…

Henry (Hank) B. Reiling, Harvard Business School’s Eli Goldston Professor of Business Administration, Emeritus, was an authority in law, taxation, and finance. Reiling died on Jan. 21. Services to be held Jan. 26.

Dual-degree students from Harvard and Berklee find ways to harmonize.

Harvard’s men’s basketball team takes advantage of a day off in Atlanta, meets former president Jimmy Carter, and tours Civil Rights sites.

Theda Skocpol, the Victor S. Thomas Professor of Government and Sociology at Harvard, is passionate about comparative and American politics and social policy. For close to two decades, her second passion has been football.

The 2018 Annual Report of the Corporation Committee on Shareholder Responsibility has been released. New topics addressed included digital media content management and fair tax policy.

Renovation of Harvard’s rare books library will improve research and teaching facilities, expand exhibition spaces, and improve accessibility.

This spring, alumni can vote for a new group of Harvard Overseers and Harvard Alumni Association (HAA) elected directors.

Three international Harvard College students have won Rhodes Scholarships to attend Oxford in the fall.

A series of studies conducted by Alexander Schier, the Leo Erikson Life Sciences Professor of Molecular and Cellular Biology, and members of his lab including Jeff Farrell, Yiqun Wang, Bushra Raj, and James Gagnon, and additional work of collaborators from Harvard Medical School, has been featured as the “2018 Breakthrough of the Year” by Science magazine.

Celebration, exploration, reflection, and insight from the University and beyond. We look back at some reader favorites.

Ten Harvard faculty members are among the 416 scientists who have been named American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) Fellows. Election as an AAAS Fellow is an honor bestowed upon AAAS members by their peers.

An initiative to increase awareness of inclusion and belonging got its kickoff in late November, when the #consciousharvard sounding board spent a week at the Smith Center in the first of a series of planned events.

Celebrated historian Drew Faust, president emerita and Lincoln Professor of History, has been named a University Professor, Harvard’s highest faculty honor.

A partnership between a local fish wholesaler and Harvard University Dining Services puts fresh seafood on students’ and faculty members’ plates twice a week.

The Ash Center for the Democratic Governance and Innovation at Harvard Kennedy School has named Works Wonders, a job-training and placement initiative for foster youth in Rhode Island, as winner of its Innovations in American Government Award.

Under Harvard College’s early action program, Harvard has admitted 935 students from an applicant pool of 6,958 to the Class of 2023.

Connor Veneski and Chance Fletcher are Native American students at Harvard Law School. Veneski is the first student from a tribal university ever admitted to the Law School and Fletcher is the first recipient of the first American Indian College Fund Law School Scholarship.

Harvard University’s Title IX Office and the Office for Dispute Resolution have released their fiscal year 2018 annual report, underscoring continued progress in shared efforts to better prevent and respond to gender-based and sexual harassment.

On Tuesday during a fundraiser at El Jefe’s Taqueria, members of the Harvard community came out to support Ben Abercrombie ’21, a first-year safety who was seriously injured last year during his first football game for the Crimson.

Last fall, Harvard’s Office of the Provost convened the first meeting of the University Accessibility Committee to share successful practices. The committee identified three main areas for its work: the student experience, digital technology, and on-campus facilities.