Featured series 
Format: Gallery
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Arts & Culture
Selective nostalgia
Half a century after curator’s road trip collecting photos of American life, a look at what’s inside — and outside — the frames
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Campus & Community
Rowin’ in the rain
Spirits high despite gray skies for 61st Head of the Charles Regatta
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Campus & Community
The idea of a university
MLK Lecture honoree argues goal should prepare students for jobs, and to be responsible, principled citizens
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Campus & Community
Why we love the Charles
Some go to the river to move; others to write, relax, reflect, or just people-watch
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Science & Tech
Curios and curiouser
With exhibits including a dodo, fish mummified in pearl, and a ‘King Kong’-connected Komodo, ‘discovering the stories is one of the best jobs’
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Arts & Culture
Strange encounters with family
For photography scholar, albums are a poignant reminder of the details a picture leaves out
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Campus & Community
Hope, joy, heavy lifting
Bittersweet goodbyes and jitters make way for excitement as Class of 2030 settles in on move-in day
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Arts & Culture
Mystery statue unearthed at Sardis archaeological dig
2,500-year-old marble sculpture of young man hid face-down for centuries, broken and recycled as paving stones
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Nation & World
‘Images of vitality and hope’ amid ravages of war
Photographer captured daily life as South Koreans transitioned to peace
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Campus & Community
‘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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Arts & Culture
An exhibit marked with food stains and handwritten notes
Radcliffe explores social histories of recipes through its vast collection of community cookbooks
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Arts & Culture
The stories behind the books
Harvard’s libraries hold volumes whose worth goes beyond their words
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Campus & Community
Digging for old Harvard
Archaeology Project members get their hands dirty exploring lives of earlier students
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Campus & Community
Garber to lead Harvard beyond 2026-27 academic year
‘Our progress has made me prouder than ever to be part of the University — and determined to see us through this uniquely challenging period in our long history.’
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Campus & Community
Four years, three words
Seniors encapsulate how they’ve changed since arriving at Harvard
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Arts & Culture
Educating the eye
Harvard celebrates 150th anniversary of art history department, the nation’s first
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Nation & World
‘Our American compass is still true’
MLK Lecture honoree Darren Walker urges hope, courage in fight against inequality, polarization
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Campus & Community
‘How old are you? 70s? You’re JV, maybe next year.’
Olympic gold winner Bill Becklean has been at crew for 75 years, will be coxing boat of octogenarians at Head of the Charles
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Arts & Culture
Viewing art like an expert
Curators and conservators at the Harvard Art Museums zoom in on the tiny details that tell big stories about some of their favorite works
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Campus & Community
‘We’re so happy to have you here’
Yard brims with voices and motion, excitement and nerves, sweat and tears on move-in day
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Campus & Community
‘Who we are and what we stand for’
Amid Harvard Alumni Day celebration, speakers address challenges, share messages of strength and resolve
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Campus & Community
‘There are secrets to unlock’
Harvard’s practice of preservation plays key role in future research
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Arts & Culture
Science Center Plaza is alive with the sound of music
Harvard Arts Fest brings artmaking and creativity to campus
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Arts & Culture
Making universal connection through the intensely personal
Woodberry Poetry Room workshop project on tradition of elegy inspired by loneliness, grief of pandemic
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Arts & Culture
Harvard archivists’ favorite finds
Library staff pick objects that tell story of both University, America for ‘Inside Out’ exhibit
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Arts & Culture
An architect-detective’s medieval mystery
Exhibit traces scholar’s quest to reconstruct abbey destroyed after French Revolution
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Arts & Culture
‘Two Human Beings,’ again and again
An exhibition at the Harvard Art Museums asks what we can learn from Edvard Munch’s 40-year obsession with a man and woman at the shore.
