Campus & Community

For an undergraduate, Harvard Square is busy and crowded, but it’s home, particularly when you know what parts of it make you happy.

New Harvard Management Company head N.P. Narvekar announced a major reorganization of Harvard’s endowment management arm, including investment strategy shifts, workforce cuts, fresh hires, and changes in how compensation is calculated.

When students move back into a renovated Winthrop House this fall, ahead of schedule, they’ll find transformed spaces and modern amenities as well as design touches that celebrate the residence’s rich history.

The Hasty Pudding Theatricals, the oldest theatrical organization in the United States, has named Oscar-winning actress Octavia Spencer as its Woman of the Year.

For almost 250 years, the U.S. military and Harvard have shared a deeply interwoven history. A Harvard University Archives exhibition at Pusey Library demonstrates the scope of this relationship.

The 2016 Annual Report of the Corporation Committee on Shareholder Responsibility, a subcommittee of the President and Fellows has been released.

The Gazette sat down with Professor Scott Edwards, who chairs Harvard’s reaccreditation steering committee, to discuss the process ahead for the University.

Versatile actor Ryan Reynolds is chosen as Hasty Pudding Theatricals’ Man of the Year.

Harvard Law School offers a Spanish course for student attorneys who want to polish their skills to deal with clients who speak that language.

William Sisler, director of the Harvard University Press, will retire at the end of the academic year. He led the publisher through an era of major transitions in the field.

A new study examines who’s learning from MOOCs, and how.

With Harvard help, Gardner Pilot Academy celebrates its new, interactive science lab.

Harvard alumni will receive ballots to vote for a new group of Harvard Overseers and Harvard Alumni Association elected directors this spring.

James Ackerman, Arthur Kingsley Porter Professor of Fine Arts Emeritus, lived a life of service, giving himself fully to his country, his pupils, and his research.

Harvard Law School Dean Martha Minow announced she will step down at the end of this academic year. With a focus on access to justice, public service, and entrepreneurship, Minow guided the School in new directions to prepare lawyers for challenges and opportunities brought by globalization and a changing legal profession.

A look back at some of the Gazette’s most popular stories of 2016.

The Ivy League style of clothiers such as J. Press and the Andover Shop has stood the test of time.

Harvard physicists Cumrun Vafa and Andrew Strominger have been named winners of the 2017 Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics in recognition of their groundbreaking work in a number of areas, including black hole theory, quantum gravity, and string theory.

Go behind the scenes of the Harvard-Radcliffe Drama Club’s production of “Into the Woods”

The Presidential Task Force on Inclusion and Belonging, created by President Drew Faust in September, is gathering information through listening sessions and has started subcommittees to examine how to build on Harvard’s commitment to campus diversity and be a university where all feel they belong.

Tommy Amaker reflects on becoming the Crimson’s winningest men’s basketball coach after his 179th win.

At this time of year, most Harvard seniors are worrying about job interviews or graduate school applications, but not Dhruva Bhat and Julius Bright Ross. The two seniors will spend the next two years studying in the United Kingdom, Bhat as a Rhodes Scholar and Ross as a Marshall Scholar.

Jackie Lender ’16, who is the first Harvard Presidential City of Boston Fellow, shares her experience.

Thomas C. Schelling, a major figure in shaping the modern Harvard Kennedy School and a 2005 Nobel Prize winner in economics, died at 95.

In the morning hours before classes start, the Harvard community prepares for the day ahead.

Harvard admissions officials say 938 students have been admitted early to the College to the Class of 2021, as early action thrives as a “new normal” for undergraduate admissions.

Students enrolled in the course “Reinventing (and Reimagining) Boston: The Changing American City” examine the city and the many changes it has undergone in recent decades.

Two comparative study of religion concentrators tell what drew them to their field, and how they plan to use their lessons to make a difference.

Ten Harvard students and alumni have been selected to attend Tsinghua University in Beijing as Schwarzman Scholars.

Islamic studies scholar Celene Ibrahim discussed the myths and realities of Muslim Feminism at the year’s second Diversity Dialogue.