Campus & Community

An interview with Dean David Hempton to mark the bicentennial of Harvard Divinity School.

Danielle Allen has been named a University Professor. The political theorist and classicist has been recognized for her scholarly work on justice and citizenship.

Harvard Advanced Leadership Initiative fellows find new ways to explore life after one career ends and they move into the social sector.

Harvard alumni, faculty describe efforts on and off campus to diversify the arts.

Siyani Chambers was looking forward to finishing his senior year as starting point guard for the men’s basketball team until an injury took him off the court and off campus for a year. Now he’s back.

Photos from Harvard ROTC’s 100th birthday show the intersection of service and academics through time.

The opening of the Pagliuca Harvard Life Lab in Allston marks the newest addition to the Innovations Labs cluster, which fosters the cross-disciplinary approach to entrepreneurship.

Cheryl A. Giles, the Francis Greenwood Peabody Senior Lecturer on Pastoral Care and Counseling, has been counseling and educating young people for more than 30 years.

After a bruising election, voters at Harvard cast their ballots and settled in to watch the results.

First Harvard Women’s Weekend focuses on what’s been gained, and what’s still to achieve.

Nobel laureate Takaaki Kajita will be honored as the 2016 Scientist of the Year by the Harvard Foundation for Intercultural and Race Relations.

Just days after Oliver Hart, the Andrew E. Furer Professor of Economics, received the Nobel Prize in economics, the Harvard Gazette sat down with him and Adams University Professor Eric Maskin, who won the prize in 2007, to look back on their distinguished careers. 

A Harvard professor asked an Ed Portal audience to vote on Question 4, which would legalize and create a commission to regulate marijuana in Massachusetts, after they reviewed three very different viewpoints on the topic.

Harvard students in teaching and research positions will vote Nov. 16, 17 on whether to have a union represent them.

At a Meeting of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences on Nov. 1, 2016, the following Minute was placed upon the records.

At a Meeting of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences on Nov. 1, 2016, the following Minute was placed upon the records.

Harvard had a budget surplus in the 2016 fiscal year, but forecasts are for tight revenues in the years ahead from endowment, tuition, and federal funding sources, Harvard’s chief financial officer said.

The incandescent foliage of New England is on full display across the Harvard campuses on both sides of the Charles River.

Monica Tesoriero and Kalan Chang are products of the Harvard Bridge Program, which connects workers with citizenship and career-development services.

A $1 million gift from Brooklyn Nets guard Jeremy Lin ’10 will go towards supporting the Harvard Financial Aid initiative and improvements to the Lavietes Pavilion.

The National Institute of Mental Health has awarded Professor Steven Hyman ’80 the 2016 Sarnat Prize for his work on treating and understanding psychiatric disorders as biological diseases.

On October 19 the Faculty Council heard a review of the Biomedical Engineering concentration and a proposal on course scheduling. They also met with Provost Garber to ask and answer…

The Carpenter Center, designed by renowned architect Le Corbusier, is intended for creative activity within its spaces.

More than 1,000 residents of Allston-Brighton and Cambridge enjoyed a tailgate before watching the Crimson football team continue their perfect streak, all compliments of Harvard University.

A Harvard College sophomore tells freshmen what he knows, and ponders what he’s learned in the last year.

Two undergraduates turned their idea for a new musical and performance space into reality at the Penthouse Café in the Radcliffe Quadrangle.

Late-night TV host Jimmy Kimmel will be joined by sports analyst Bill Simmons at a Boston fundraiser to support Harvard’s Scholars at Risk program.

Harvard Professor Oliver Hart was awarded the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel for his work on contracts theory.

Susan J. Pharr has been given the Japan Foundation Award for her contribution to the study of the island nation and its international ties.

The Hutchins Center honors eight medalists who have made a difference for African-Americans and for cultural understanding.