Tag: Service

  • Campus & Community

    Serving up job training

    Breaktime Cafe, started by two Harvard students, works to feed vulnerable community members.

    Breaktime team in the kitchen.
  • Campus & Community

    Alumni presented with Harvard Medal on Commencement

    At the annual meeting of the Harvard Alumni Association on Commencement Day, President Drew Faust will present the 2018 Harvard Medal to Robert Coles ’50, Robert N. Shapiro ’72, J.D. ’78, and Alice “Acey” Welch ’53 in recognition of their service to the University.

  • Campus & Community

    Finding HARMONY

    HARMONY — one of Phillips Brooks House Association’s more than 70 volunteer programs — provides instrumental and vocal instruction for children in the Cambridge Public Schools.

  • Campus & Community

    Harvard’s graduates, aiding others

    A panel discussion served as the launchpad for the Harvard Alumni Association’s annual global month of service, with gatherings planned worldwide.

  • Campus & Community

    Donovan receives Coles Award

    Harvard President Drew Faust presented the annual Robert Coles Call of Service Award on Friday to U.S. Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Shaun Donovan.

  • Campus & Community

    Family values, in an orphanage

    Sonya Soni always felt called to serve the Indian orphanage that her family has run for four generations. Two years at Harvard Divinity School challenged her to rethink what the struggling community needs most.

  • Campus & Community

    Slowing down to see more

    An undergraduate finds her path to satisfying public service by searching among the alternatives she sampled to discover the best fit for her.

  • Campus & Community

    Teach for America taps talent

    More than three dozen Harvard graduates will join Teach for America this fall, as the University remains among the nation’s top contributors to the national education program.

  • Campus & Community

    A key player on the field and off

    Softball co-captain Melissa Schellberg ’10 leaves her mark on the Harvard community.

  • Nation & World

    A church rises again

    Harvard undergrads on Alternative Spring Break learn construction techniques while helping to complete a rebuilt Alabama church.

  • Campus & Community

    Around the Schools: Harvard Law School

    Hundreds of Harvard Law School (HLS) students, faculty, and staff gathered in the School’s Pound Hall for a “Thanksgiving for the Troops” event on Nov. 18 to raise money and collect items for soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan.

  • Campus & Community

    The Lost Student

    “I met him the year before I left the Mississippi Delta — my second year as a Teach for America member in Phillips County, Ark., one of the poorest counties in the country. Patrick had flunked eighth grade twice; that year was his third try. He simply wouldn’t show up.”

  • Campus & Community

    Andover’s Rousmaniere teaches soccer in Africa

    For Andover’s Adam Rousmaniere, life simply has a different meaning now. “When I got home, everything seemed different,” he said. “It was difficult to readapt. You look at things here and you think, how can you get upset over that? How does that bother you? Readapting to life in the United States was quite an…

  • Campus & Community

    Harvard: Leadership through service

    Harvard fosters a culture of community service that embraces those who study, teach and work here. An essential component of today’s Harvard education is the call to serve the greater community, both locally and globally.

  • Campus & Community

    Knowles memorial set for May 30

    A memorial service for former dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences Jeremy R. Knowles will be held May 30 at 11 a.m. at the Memorial Church. The Amory Houghton Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Knowles died April 3.

  • Campus & Community

    Three to receive HAA medals

    The Harvard Alumni Association (HAA) has announced the recipients of the 2007 Harvard Medal: Phyllis Keller B.F. ’70, Carl H. Pforzheimer III A.B. ’58, M.B.A. ’63, and Richard Menschel M.B.A. ’59.