Campus & Community

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.

Former U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton received the Radcliffe Medal on Friday, an annual award honoring an individual whose life and work have had a “transformative impact on society.”

The National Science Foundation and the Simons Foundation have awarded a grant to Harvard scientists to create a research center aimed at bringing biologists and mathematicians together to answer some of the central questions about living systems.

Harvard Commencement Speaker John Lewis exhorts graduates to get to work in the fight for justice.

Ian Nicholson has some advice for his daughter Lauren as she graduates from Harvard.

Philosophy, not politics, was the subject of Ohio Gov. John Kasich’s Commencement address at the Harvard Kennedy School on Wednesday. “This is not a public policy speech,” the 2016 Republican presidential contender told the graduates, as he challenged them to reach for a deeper purpose.

Six new officers have been elected to Harvard University’s Board of Overseers, and another half dozen as directors of the Harvard Alumni Association.

Harvard’s annual Commencement is both a conclusion and a start for those graduating. But the day also is a gathering of the far-flung Crimson clan under tents and trees in…

The Harvard Gazette takes a look back on 2017–18.

In its first nine months, Harvard’s Inequality Initiative pursued a three-pronged effort, beginning with a public symposium last fall.

Harvard University awarded a total of 8,042 degrees and certificates over the 2017–18 academic year.

Three student orators — Pete Davis, Christopher Egi, and Phoebe Lakin — will deliver speeches in both English and Latin during Morning Exercises in Tercentenary Theatre.

Sallie (Penny) Chisholm, Rita Dove, Harvey Fineberg, Ricardo Lagos Escobar, George Lewis received honorary degrees from Harvard at its 367th Commencement Day ceremony.

Nigerian novelist Ngozi Adichie, Harvard’s Class Day speaker, urges graduating seniors to ‘protect and value the truth’ in their own lives.

The ROTC commissioning ceremony honored new officers in the armed forces.

Penny S. Pritzker ’81, former U.S. Secretary of Commerce and past Harvard Overseer, and Carolyn A. “Biddy” Martin, president of Amherst College and former Chancellor of the University of Wisconsin-Madison, have been chosen as the newest members of the Harvard Corporation.

The Graduate School of Arts and Sciences presented the Centennial Medal to four distinguished alumni who have made fundamental and lasting contributions to knowledge, to their disciplines, to their colleagues, and to society.