Campus & Community

Harvard President Drew Faust was among 49 college and university presidents who called on Congress to repeal the endowment tax enacted in December.

Professor Henrichs was an accomplished papyrologist and produced seminal studies across the breadth of Greek literature and religion.

Professor Ackerman was the most widely read architectural historian in America for decades.

Professor Jenkins completed groundbreaking work on gait, discovered a missing link in the evolution from fish to tetrapod, and chronicled an evolutionary step that helped to explain the origin of mammals.

With a $30 million grant from Priscilla Chan and Mark Zuckerberg, the Harvard Graduate School of Education and MIT’s Integrated Learning Initiative will launch Reach Every Reader, which combines cutting-edge education and neuroscience research to help end the childhood literacy crisis.

Your Harvard series takes President Drew Faust to San Francisco.

Harvard College’s Office for Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion, which includes the Office of BGLTQ Student Life, finds new home in renovated space inside Grays Hall.

Charles Pence Slichter ’45-’46, A.M. ’47, Ph.D. ’49, an internationally known physicist who won the National Medal of Science in 2007 and served on the Harvard Corporation for a quarter-century, died on Feb. 19. He was 94.

U.S. Rep. John Lewis, a Civil Rights leader who has represented Georgia’s 5th District for more than 30 years, will be the principal speaker at the Afternoon Program of Harvard’s 367th Commencement on May 24.

Urban Health and Community Change,” a social studies course that debuted last semester, took students out of the classroom and into the Somerville community to roll up their sleeves and take practical action to help the less advantaged.

Profiles of three students who were homeschooled before coming to Harvard.

To protect pedestrians and cyclists, Harvard will soon require side guards be installed on large trucks that are on campus.

Harvard men’s basketball tallied a 65-58 victory over the Brown on Friday at Lavietes Pavilion. With Friday’s win, the Crimson remain in a tie for first place in the Ivy League standings.

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.