Campus & Community

On April 27, the members of the Faculty Council approved preliminary versions of the University Extension School courses for 2016–2017 and Courses of Instruction for 2016–2017.

Leaving a legacy of curriculum innovation and diplomacy, Dean of Arts and Humanities Diana Sorensen steps down after 10 years of elevating the division.

SurgiBox, a collapsible, safe, and aseptic surgery device, won this year’s $70,000 grand prize in the President’s Challenge.

The Summer Youth Employment Program (SYEP) offers local teenagers the chance to work at Harvard, and offers Harvard departments a way to fill temporary staffing needs while strengthening its connection to the community.

Nicco Mele, the Wallis Annenberg Chair in Journalism at the University of Southern California, is the new director of the Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy at Harvard’s John F. Kennedy School of Government.

South Carolina native Joshuah Campbell, who is graduating with joint degrees in music and French, has discovered the serious side of performing.

Air Force Secretary Deborah Lee James and Harvard President Drew Faust signed an agreement Friday to bring the Air Force ROTC program officially to campus.

In myriad ways, Harvard is working across its campus to reduce energy use, curb climate change.

Research by doctoral student Anthony Abraham Jack has left a mark on campus life.

The American Academy of Arts and Sciences today announced the election of 213 new members. They include several Harvard faculty members. The new class will be inducted at a ceremony on Oct. 8 in Cambridge, Mass.

Sheryl Sandberg, Facebook’s chief operating officer, will lead the 25th reunion class at Harvard’s Commencement as chief marshal.

In Harvard’s Foodbetter program, faculty and administrators join forces to inspire a healthy, sustainable, and just food system at home and abroad.

Carrie Fisher of “Star Wars” fame shared her battles with addiction and mental illness at the Memorial Church on Monday, where she was honored with an Outstanding Lifetime Achievement Award in Cultural Humanism.

The Lemann Foundation, which has supported Harvard University for many years, announced an expansion of financial aid to undergraduate and graduate students from Brazil, among other initiatives.

The Harvard Graduate School of Education and Cambridge Rindge and Latin School are collaborating on a program that brings history to life through the Harvard Art Museums’ collections.

With an Overseer election underway, the Gazette talked with the incoming and outgoing presidents of the Board of Overseers about the board, its role at the University, and their experiences serving on it.

At a Meeting of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences on April 5, 2016, the Memorial Minute honoring the life and service of the late Stanley Hoffmann, Paul and Catherine Buttenwieser University Professor Emeritus at Harvard University, was placed upon the records.

On April 13 the members of the Faculty Council discussed the rescission of degrees.

In recognition of the Boston Marathon bombings and as part of One Boston Day, Harvard police officer and affiliated minister Kevin Bryant offered hope to the community during the University’s Morning Prayers service at Memorial Church’s Appleton Chapel.

Harvard University has received unanimous final approval from the Boston Redevelopment Authority (BRA) for its planned Science and Engineering Complex (SEC) in Allston.

U.S. Secretary of the Navy Ray Mabus reflected on the longstanding relationship between Harvard and the Navy during an address to mark the fifth anniversary of the Navy ROTC program’s return to campus.

In advance of the Boston Marathon, a Harvard conference focuses on the achievements of Native Americans, long dominant in the sport.

Doctoral student Aleksandar Shopov has helped save many of Istanbul’s green spaces, but he has even broader hopes.

Students and donors gathered for the Celebration of Scholarships, an annual dinner where financial aid recipients spend an evening with their benefactors.

A student-led art installation, conceived in response to the Report on Sexual Assault Prevention and Response, goes into the Houses this week, then out for public viewing at Tercentenary Theatre later this month.

Immediately following Commencement, Memorial Church will close as, for the remainder of the calendar year, it undergoes renovations.

Jing Qiu ’16, an economics concentrator, decided to volunteer at the Phillips Brooks House Association, Harvard’s largest student organization. It changed her life.

Alan Eric Erickson, longtime librarian of the Godfrey Lowell Cabot Science Library at Harvard College, died March 23 following a brief illness; he was 88.

Andrea Ortiz ’16, a Mexican immigrant who grew up in Miami, hopes to build a career that allows her to address issues of poverty, education, immigration, and crime in low-income communities in the United States.

Sixty-five FAS employees from 45 departments were recognized with the annual Dean’s Distinction Awards.