Campus & Community
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‘Truth is rarely found in echo chambers’
Faculty, staff, and students explore what it takes to connect across difference at Community and Campus Life forum
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Two new Corporation members
Sylvia Mathews Burwell and Michael S. Chae to join governing board
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‘Best college tradition anywhere’
Smurf-blue hair, chain-mail suits, vuvuzelas, and bagpipes abound as students flood Yard for annual raucous rite of Housing Day
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‘OK, I get it. This makes sense.’
Grade-inflation panel says updated plan focuses on reining in A’s, restoring integrity of system, freeing students to follow curiosity
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A community-sized Seder plate
Through sculpture’s 6 stories, Hillel seeks to portray ‘a bigger picture of what it means to be Jewish’
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SEAL, doctor, astronaut, Harvard Alumni Day speaker
Jonny Kim will address Harvard’s global alumni community
Part of the Commencement 2026 series
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Passion for advocacy nurtured at home
Maryam Guerrab, a child of Algerian immigrants, seeks to combine important lessons from classroom with powerful ones from life
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Her parents came from India. She wants to help other newcomers.
Merlin D’souza has her sights set on medical school
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Providing medical care is important, but so is ensuring access
Morgan Byers grew up in a small Georgia community with big ideas of how to help
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Women’s basketball on the road to March Madness
Ivy League champs return for first time in 18 years,
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When creativity calls
Harvard staff cultivate talents that flourish beyond the gates
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Harvard expands financial aid
New effort ensures that more undergraduates, especially from middle-income families, will receive support
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Getting into the swing of things
Students plan concert with saxophonist and composer Ted Nash that ends with enlightening dinner conversation
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The House that will be home
Housing Day — one of Harvard’s most beloved traditions — marks a milestone for first-years
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It’s going to get even harder to write (or at least type) like Sylvia Plath
Cambridge Typewriter, one of few shops left to buy, repair vintage machines, prepares to close doors after more than half a century
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Rising econ star sheds light on power of exchange rates
Oleg Itskhoki, now a Clark Medalist, returns to Harvard
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How to escape your silo (spoiler: friendship helps)
Co-authors of ‘What We Can’t Burn’ formed lasting bond even as they argued about best way to fight climate change
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Telling apples from Apples
Harvard Library search tool will understand intent behind the terms
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House pride from A to Z
Housing Day is more than a tradition, as first-years soon learn
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Donald Lee Fanger, 94
Memorial Minute — Faculty of Arts and Sciences
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Atul Gawande named featured speaker for Harvard Alumni Day
Acclaimed surgeon, writer, and public health leader will take the stage at Harvard’s global alumni celebration on June 6
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Sense of isolation, loss amid Gaza war sparks quest to make all feel welcome
Nim Ravid works to end polarization on campus, across multicultural democracies
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Abraham Verghese, physician and bestselling author, named Commencement speaker
Stanford professor whose novels include ‘Covenant of Water’ to deliver principal address May 29
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Student-led projects tackle campus divisions
Presidential initiative backs efforts to encourage, facilitate constructive dialogue
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The team behind the team
From analyzing statistics to setting out chairs, student managers help carry the sports they love
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Stepping into the hot center
Tarek Masoud’s ‘Middle East Dialogues’ sparked many conversations — including about importance of having them
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Keeping cool when debate turns hot
Inaugural global Ethics Center conference features scholarship, presentations on fostering civil, productive dialogue
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Conflict is inevitable. Rancor isn’t.
It all begins, undergrad nonprofit founder says, with nurturing curiosity about what other side really thinks, and why
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New era for the Bok Center
Director shares vision for innovative teaching and learning
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Legacy of Slavery expands work with oldest genealogical nonprofit in U.S.
Partnership laying groundwork for University to engage with direct descendants