Campus & Community

Players bond and battle during Community Chess Weekend at Harvard’s Smith Campus Center.

Paul Barreira and Barbara Lewis discuss the expansion of Counseling and Mental Health Services in the Smith Center, and how it broadens their mission.

In a Q&A session, presidential adviser and strategist John Silvanus Wilson discusses progress implementing the recommendations of the Presidential Task Force on Inclusion and Belonging.

Harvard Yard performances highlight, embrace the complexity of diversity.

Harvard University continues to expand on its commitment to prevent and respond to instances of sexual and gender-based harassment, including sexual assault, introducing several new initiatives this fall to serve students, faculty, and staff.

Six Harvard College students taught English as a second language to new residents of Boston as part of the inaugural Phillips Brooks House Association Adult ESOL program.

Professor Richard Losick shares the story of a single floor in a single building on Divinity Avenue that served as a scientific home to three Nobel laureates and a training ground for six future laureates. A 10th researcher followed the same path, though he was on the floor above.

Marking its 10th anniversary, Harvard Housing’s Graduate Commons Program offers housing that brings together graduate students, faculty, staff, and their families through integrative events and programming that fosters community.

Harvard’s redesigned Richard A. and Susan F. Smith Campus Center officially opened Sept. 20 with a dedication ceremony attended by Harvard President Larry Bacow, President Emerita Drew Faust, and members of the Harvard and Cambridge communities.

Harvard Votes Challenge provides push to register eligible students, with TurboVote making it even easier.

Brian K. Lee has been appointed Harvard’s vice president for alumni affairs and development, President Larry Bacow announced.

Harvard files court motion supporting student testimony at admissions trial. Students and alumni hope to offer their perspectives on the importance of diversity.

Athlete and activist Colin Kaepernick and comedian Dave Chappelle are among the eight people who will receive the W.E.B. Du Bois Medal at Harvard University on Oct. 11.

The Harvard Campaign, which concluded on July 1, will help “shape and secure Harvard’s future by investing in both the enduring and emerging …”

Q&A with Shawon Kinew as part of a series introducing new faculty members.

Six female Native Americans took part in the Summer Research Experience for Undergraduates at the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences.

A scholar whose research probes inequality, politics, and race, Lawrence D. Bobo has been appointed dean of social science at Harvard. He takes the helm Oct. 1.

The fall semester is off to a busy start, with Harvard students scrambling to sample a variety of classes before settling on their course load.

In a recent survey of parents who have completed the Harvard Mind Matters program offered in Cambridge and Boston schools, more than 98 percent were pleased with the materials and outcome.

Harvard faculty members have traveled the world lately, making exploratory trips that will enable students’ own global adventures in the years to come.

Q&A with Robert Reid-Pharr as part of a series introducing new faculty members.

In a Q&A session, Professor Annette Gordon-Reed talked about the work of the committee she chairs that’s looking into the arrest of a Harvard student last April, and what’s likely to come from that examination.

The Harvard Graduate School of Education and the Harvard Business School have partnered to offer a new certificate program for school principals.

A new program, led by students, will help interested professional students at Harvard engage to address climate change.

A group of alumni volunteers return to campus to marshal the first official gathering for the Class of 2022 at the First-Year Convocation.

Contemplation and reflection were foremost in the mind of Harvard President Larry Bacow during his remarks at Morning Prayers.

Harvard College’s Class of 2022 filled Tercentenary Theatre on Monday for First-Year Convocation to hear lessons on fellowship and friendship, responsibility and reward that will last beyond the school year.

The Harvard program First-Year Librarians in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences is an effort to strengthen connections between students and staff.

Lowell House will get new faculty deans at the end of the academic year: Nina Zipser, dean for faculty affairs and planning, and David Laibson, Robert I. Goldman Professor of Economics.

The former president and CEO of the NAACP, Cornell William Brooks, has joined the Harvard Kennedy School as professor of the practice of public leadership and social justice. He is the first leader of a national Civil Rights organization to join the School’s senior faculty.