Featured series 
Tag: Students
-
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.
-
Campus & Community
Starting holiday traditions
Creating a tradition of her own, Lena Lofgren ’23 started decorating her dorm room before Thanksgiving.
-
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.
-
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.
-
Campus & Community
Homeschooled en route to Harvard
Profiles of three students who were homeschooled before coming to Harvard.
-
Science & Tech
Students help groups to pursue climate action
Harvard living lab course works to find practical alternatives to carbon use.
-
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.
-
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.
-
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.
-
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.
-
Campus & Community
Support for the undocumented
With changes in U.S. immigration policy possible, Harvard outlines its support network for undocumented students who might be affected.
-
-
Campus & Community
Opening academia widely
In an effort to dispel the notion that graduate school and careers in academia are generally beyond the reach of minority students, Harvard hosted the second Ivy Plus Symposium.
-
Health
A splash with the spleen
A group of Harvard Medical School students is using the viral success of tongue-in-cheek video on the spleen to promote science education, launching a contest for younger students to make organ-themed music videos.
-
Health
Fighting disease on a global scale
The idea that the wave of diabetes, heart disease, and cancer breaking over the world is largely the result of wealth and inactivity is not only wrong, it’s counterproductive, says a Harvard research fellow who recently founded a nonprofit organization to fight disease.
-
Campus & Community
Updated Quincy a happy home
After 15 months of construction and renovation, Old Quincy, the first test project in the House Renewal initiative, began welcoming students this week.
-
Campus & Community
Nadia Farjood ’13: Ethos of Character
Nadia Farjood ’13, a current student in Currier House, is proud to attend Harvard—a university with a community of shared values.
-
Campus & Community
A class open to the world
Michael Sandel’s discussion of ‘Justice’ connects Harvard students with those in four other nations
-
Campus & Community
So close and yet so far
The latest freshman class, sweepingly broad geographically, includes students from 10,000 miles away and some from Harvard’s own ZIP code.
-
Campus & Community
Harvard Innovators – Innovation at Harvard
Throughout the Harvard community, students, faculty, staff, and alumni/ae are working every day across disciplines and around the globe to generate innovative ideas and solutions. Here are just a few examples.
-
Arts & Culture
The Nostalgics, a Harvard Motown band
One of the many student-led musical groups on campus, The Nostalgics keep a Detroit sound tradition alive as Harvard’s Motown and soul band.
-
Arts & Culture
Mariachi Véritas de Harvard
Created in 2001, Mariachi Véritas de Harvard is a student-run group that focuses exclusively on the mariachi musical tradition.
-
Arts & Culture
Madison Greer, solo artist
During her time at Harvard, Jazz singer and junior Madison Greer has developed her skills in music theory and music performance and learned how to “front” a band.
-
Campus & Community
Harvard Innovation Lab Opens in Allston
The lab includes academic space, such as classrooms and meeting areas for both undergraduate and graduate students. It also provides public areas and meeting rooms designed to foster project work, as well as business development resources for Allston-Brighton and greater Boston — a population full of entrepreneurs that Harvard seeks to both help and tap…
-
Campus & Community
REAI offering grants to faculty, students
The Real Estate Academic Initiative (REAI) at Harvard is offering its first round of grants of the academic year to support real estate and urban development research by Harvard faculty and students.
-
Nation & World
Campus leaders
U.S. Navy Captain Curtis R. Stevens, Midshipman 1st class Evan Roth ’12, and Midshipman 3rd class Catherine Philbin ’14 discuss the demands and rewards of life in the Naval Reserve Officers Training Corps at Harvard University.
-
Nation & World
Harvard Remembers 9/11
The Harvard community remembers where they were on September 11th and reflects on how it has changed their lives and the world around them.
-
Campus & Community
Guided by faith
Divinity School student Shauntae Smith will draw from her Harvard studies to lead the youth ministry at her home church in Brooklyn, N.Y.
