Campus & Community

Grammy Award-winning recording artist, songwriter, and visual artist Solange Knowles has been named the Harvard Foundation’s Artist of the Year.

Anthony Peterson dismantled society’s false narrative about race while sharing his own story during an FAS Diversity Dialogue discussion.

With a $25 million gift from Susan Shallcross Swartz and her husband James R. Swartz ’64, Harvard Divinity School’s Andover Hall will undergo a renewal, its first since construction more than 100 years ago.

A record 42,742 students applied for admission to Harvard’s Class of 2022, breaking last year’s record of 39,506 for the current freshman class.

Harvard’s next president, Lawrence Bacow, is known among his peers in higher ed as someone they can turn to for advice.

Members of the Harvard community weighed in with their thoughts Monday on the selection of former Tufts University president Lawrence S. Bacow as Harvard’s next leader.

After a recent snowfall, we explored the neighborhood of the University’s namesake and spoke with historian Rosemary Kverek of Charlestown and Cambridge Historical Commission Director Charles Sullivan.

Larry Bacow, named Harvard president, meets the press.

Lawrence S. Bacow, one of the most experienced and respected leaders in American higher education, will become the 29th president of Harvard University on July 1.

Harvard Athletics and the men’s and women’s basketball programs have announced the dedication of the court in the newly renovated Lavietes Pavilion as the Thomas G. Stemberg ’71 Court.

Harvard star Ryan Donato ’19 will skate for USA hockey in the Winter Olympics, upholding a family tradition.

Ben Owen III of North Carolina comes from a long line of potters. The master potter demonstrated his technique at a Harvard Ceramics Program workshop.

Friday marks the opening of the Olympic Games in Pyeongchang, South Korea, where one of the winter competition’s quirkier events will again attract viewers who often start off unsure what to make of it, and end up die-hard fans. Many who give a try it are instantly hooked. Just ask Harvard junior Neekon Vafa, president of the Harvard Curling Team, which was fourth in the college championships last year.

The renovation of the Richard A. and Susan F. Smith Campus Center is on schedule, and food vendors have been announced for its fall opening.

Former Harvard women’s ice hockey player Randi Griffin ’10, a dual citizen of the United States and South Korea, will play for the unified Korean team at the Pyeongchang Olympics.

Omar Khoshafa ’17 has been named this year’s Harvard Presidential City of Boston Fellow.

At a Meeting of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences on Feb. 6, 2018, the Minute honoring the life and service of the Philip A. Kuhn, Francis Lee Higginson Professor of History and of East Asian Languages and Civilizations Emeritus was placed upon the records. Professor Kuhn, through artful, deeply researched storytelling, reshaped approaches to modern China for historians everywhere.

At a Meeting of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences on Feb. 6, 2018, the Minute honoring the life and service of the late J. Richard Hackman, Edgar Pierce Professor of Social and Organizational Psychology, was placed upon the records. Professor Hackman sought to understand the elemental ability of living beings to operate as collectives to achieve the incomprehensible.

At a Meeting of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences on Feb. 6, 2018, the Minute honoring the life and service of the late Abdelhamid Ibrahim Sabra, Professor of the History of Arabic Science emeritus was placed upon the records. Professor Sabra was best known for his extensive investigations into medieval and early modern optics and into the work of al-Hasan ibn al-Haytham.

Members of Harvard climate change task force explain how they reached ambitious goals to end fossil fuel use on campus by 2050.

Paul Rudd, a staple of comedic cinema for the past 25 years, was recognized as Hasty Pudding Theatricals’ 2018 Man of the Year on Feb. 2.

The largest class in the 10-year history of the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences attended the Sophomore Convocation to learn more.

Hundreds of Harvard alumni and students came together for the seventh annual Public Interested Conference to consider taking on roles to address many of society’s most pernicious problems, from civil rights violations to poverty to sexual assault.

Some are new to the role while others are veterans, but their mission is the same: to create a community for their ‘extended family’ of students.

Since 1951, Hasty Pudding has been honoring icons of American entertainment with a tour of Farkas Hall, a not-so-gentle roasting, and a pudding pot.

A Wintersession course introduced students to the ancient atlatl, a hunting and fighting tool that improved the range and velocity of spears.

HUH 2017–2018 market rents will increase 1 percent on average across the 3,000-unit portfolio relative to last year’s rents, although within the portfolio rents on some units have been adjusted up or down based on current market conditions.

Smiling from ear to ear, Mila Kunis added her name to the wall of Farkas Hall this afternoon as Hasty Pudding’s 68th Woman of the Year.

In class, Harvard freshmen dive into archives to learn from the University’s past about its ties to communities and the wider world.

Iconic filmmakers talk about their craft, and art and science museums roll out new exhibits.