Campus & Community

The newly redesigned Harvard Library website puts users first, with features that make it easy to discover and use its services, tools, and collections.

With 1.4 million volumes in more than a dozen languages, the Harvard-Yenching Library is the largest academic library for East Asian studies in the Western world.

In a Q&A session, Harvard’s Muslim chaplain, Khalil Abdur-Rashid, explains what he’s found here, and where he’d like to focus his ministry next.

Patti Bellinger has been named chief of staff and strategic adviser to Harvard President Larry Bacow.

Jake Kaufmann ’93 will replace Sally Donahue as the Griffin Director of Financial Aid on July 16. Donahue is retiring after 36 years at Harvard.

In a final, festive farewell, Harvard President Drew Faust said goodbye to her position as the University’s top administrator.

For more than 50 years, prominent Boston business executive Joe O’Donnell ’67, M.B.A. ’71, has served in different capacities at Harvard, as an elected director of the Harvard Alumni Association, a Corporation member, and an Overseer. He will step down from the Corporation on June 30.

A group of Harvard-trained educators is working to direct more attention to challenges faced by teachers and students in rural America.

Robin Bernstein, Lawrence Bobo, George Lauder, Yukio Lippit, and Amy Wagers have been named Harvard College Professors.

Flag-like banners shade Science Center Plaza, one of Harvard’s many common spaces.

Economist Raj Chetty, who left Harvard for Stanford in 2015, is returning to Harvard this summer to become the inaugural William A. Ackman Professor of Economics, and continue his work on American inequality.

Under President Drew Faust, the Committee on Common Spaces at Harvard has created new spaces across campus in order to generate greater discussion, collaboration, partnership, learning, and sense of belonging.

Human rights expert Martha Minow, the Carter Professor of General Jurisprudence at Harvard Law School and a Harvard University Distinguished Service Professor, has been named a University Professor, Harvard’s highest faculty honor.

The outgoing president reflects on her personal connections to campus in 360-degree video vignettes.

Harvard, plaintiff explain their stances in case likely to go to trial in October.

The 2018 Harvard Heroes ceremony at Sanders Theatre celebrated the efforts of 61 extraordinary employees, including President Drew Faust.

Harvard, plaintiff on Friday will present their competing positions in an admissions lawsuit against the College.

The Harvard Art Museums announced that Metropolitan Museum of Art curator Soyoung Lee will become its new chief curator effective Sept. 24.

Often, getting into college and paying for it are two very different challenges. That’s where Harvard’s Financial Aid Initiative comes in. By opening the doors to exceptional students regardless of their family income, the initiative has brought more diversity — both racially and economically — to Harvard College.

The Library of Congress announced it will award to Harvard President Drew Faust the John W. Kluge Prize for Achievement in the Study of Humanity.

Michael Sandel, the Anne T. and Robert M. Bass Professor of Government, has won the 2018 Princess of Asturias Award in Social Sciences.

Young Harvard alumni explain how exposure to differences among a diverse College cohort broadened them.

Harvard roommates from varied backgrounds say that, in the College’s House system, their differences draw them together.

Phillips Brooks House Association’s STAGE worked with Cambridge and Boston youth on the fundamentals of theater, exploring plot, characterization, improvisation, and more.

The student group 21 Colorful Crimson performs a mix of covers and originals, with hopes of eventually recording an album of their own material.

Instagram series seeks to show Harvard students’ lighter sides, from their favorite music and TV to their quirks and pet peeves.

Richard “Dick” Wilson, Mallinckrodt Professor of Physics Emeritus, dies at 92. A memorial service is planned for June 24 at the Harvard Faculty Club.

The first installment in a new series on campus diversity as a cornerstone of a Harvard education.

The weeklong buildup to Commencement Day’s ancient and scripted rites is a feast for the eyes, the ears, the palate, but mostly the heart.

Sarah E. Thomas will retire from her roles as vice president of the Harvard Library and University librarian and as Roy E. Larsen Librarian of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences at the end of this year.