Featured series 
Tag: Students
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Campus & Community
Opening conversation on more, better discourse
Summit, hosted by College, PEN America, gathers speakers, workshops as part of Harvard Dialogues initiative
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Campus & Community
Harvard University Housing establishes rents for 2024–2025
Increases will range from 0 to 8 percent
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Campus & Community
‘Harvard Dialogues’ taps power of respectful debate
A week of programming anchors an initiative that will help students, faculty, and others engage in candid conversations on tough topics
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Campus & Community
Speaking his mind
Interim President Alan Garber on leadership transition, promoting dialogue, hopes for year ahead
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Campus & Community
Oh. My. Gourd.
The stunt was a fundraiser for Harvard OpenBio, a student-run laboratory aimed at democratizing biology.
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Campus & Community
When your hobby becomes breaking World Records
Duo achieved sweet feat — “greatest distance catching a gummy candy in the mouth” — at Harvard Stadium when the lighting was just right.
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Nation & World
Do phones belong in schools?
Banning cellphones may help protect classroom focus, but school districts need to stay mindful of students’ sense of connection, experts say.
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Campus & Community
How they’re feeling
Mental health is a crisis-level issue for young people today, research says. We asked Harvard students to look inside and tell us why.
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Campus & Community
Housing Day is back in the house
After a two-year COVID hiatus, upperclass students return to the Yard to welcome first-years to their future homes.
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Campus & Community
So how to make the best of ‘senior spring’ in COVID times?
Returning members of Harvard College’s Class of 2021 detail their hopes and expectations for their final semester.
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Campus & Community
College expands undergraduate cohorts invited to campus for spring
After a successful fall, Harvard College administration had decided that this spring seniors and juniors, students from far time zones, and those who must be on campus to progress academically will be invited back to campus.
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Campus & Community
2020 Rhodes, Mitchell Scholars named
Six Harvard College seniors have been awarded 2020 Rhodes Scholarships and a senior and recent alum were named George J. Mitchell Scholars.
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Campus & Community
Voting for the first time and in a historic contest. But no pressure
Harvard students discuss their hopes and fears for the nation on Election Day.
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Campus & Community
First-years make their move
For first-years, move-in day offers excitement, with a touch of anxiety.
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Campus & Community
Faculty of Arts and Sciences unveils anti-racism agenda
The dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences announced an anti-racism agenda prioritizing six areas of action.
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Campus & Community
Why they protest
Harvard students talk about why they have demonstrated, their experience at protests, and their take on the moment.
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Campus & Community
Faculty of Arts and Sciences will bring up to 40% of undergraduates to campus this fall
Harvard’s Faculty of Arts and Sciences decides it will bring up to 40 percent of undergraduates, including all first-year students, to campus for the fall semester.
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Nation & World
Supreme Court decision shielding DACA draws relief, celebration
Harvard’s president, recipients, and professors hope the Supreme Court’s narrow rejection of Donald Trump’s move to end the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program will lead to more comprehensive immigration reform.
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Campus & Community
It was a week like no other
Harvard photographer Rose Lincoln returned to campus this past weekend to capture the thoughts and images of students as they readied themselves to return home.
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Campus & Community
‘Unsteady,’ ‘lucky,’ and ‘overwhelmed’
Harvard students reflect on the shift to online classes and an unplanned move home.
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Campus & Community
Matchmaker, matchmaker put me in your algorithm
After 25 Valentine’s Days, Datamatch, a student-run online matchmaking service that pairs Harvard students for a date, is going nationwide.
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Campus & Community
Starting holiday traditions
Creating a tradition of her own, Lena Lofgren ’23 started decorating her dorm room before Thanksgiving.
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Nation & World
Dealing with disaster
As part of the class “GeoSciFi Movies: Real vs. Fiction,” students took part in a role-playing game that had them play the parts of the government and citizens of the island of Montserrat, as well as a group of scientists monitoring the island’s volcano.
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Campus & Community
The center in the crossroads
Harvard’s redesigned Richard A. and Susan F. Smith Campus Center officially opened Sept. 20 with a dedication ceremony attended by Harvard President Larry Bacow, President Emerita Drew Faust, and members of the Harvard and Cambridge communities.
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Campus & Community
Homeschooled en route to Harvard
Profiles of three students who were homeschooled before coming to Harvard.
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Science & Tech
Students help groups to pursue climate action
Harvard living lab course works to find practical alternatives to carbon use.
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Campus & Community
Welcome renewal at Winthrop
After more than a year of renovations at Winthrop House, returning students have discovered a residence that combines neo-Georgian character with 21st-century amenities.
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Campus & Community
Moments of joy beyond cancer’s shadow
Harvard’s first year as a chapter of Camp Kesem, a summer camp for children whose parents have battled cancer, unfolded last month in the green hills of Western Massachusetts.
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Science & Tech
Harvard students, meet the Stone Age
Students taking part in a new freshman seminar class learn to appreciate the sophistication of Neanderthals by manufacturing their own stone tools from scratch.
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Campus & Community
Planting the seeds of STEM
Harvard students from the Digital Literacy Project (DLP) are providing computer science curricula to seven local middle schools this year. The DLP outreach model is unusual because lessons are presented during the school day.
