Campus & Community

Festive rites and poignant moments as Classes of 2022, 2021, and 2020 gather to mark milestone.

The Classes of 2020 and 2021 finally got their day under the trees of Tercentenary Theatre Sunday morning.

NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund leader urges steps to rescue democracy.

New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern delivers warning on erosion of trust in her Commencement address, urging social media reforms and calling on individuals to reject tribalism.

Parents, friends, and scores of proud graduates gather to celebrate hard-earned Commencement.

Seven alumni have been elected as new members of Harvard University’s Board of Overseers and six as directors of the Harvard Alumni Association (HAA).

At the ceremony honoring the Class of 2022, the University awarded a total of 8,870 degrees and certificates.

During today’s Commencement ceremony in Tercentenary Theatre, Harvard will recognize seven with an honorary degree.

Class Day speaker Michelle Wu ’07, J.D. ’12, urged the class of 2022 to hold fast to Harvard’s founding motto “veritas,” or truth.

Chairman of Joint Chiefs Mark Milley swears in Harvard ROTC cadets, midshipmen.

Emerging from two years of strict COVID-19 policies, Harvard welcomed back all in-person classes and on-campus activities. A timeline marks the highlights of the 2021-22 academic year.

On Tuesday, Harvard seniors filed into Tercentenary Theatre to attend the Baccalaureate ceremony, which had been canceled for the past two years due to COVID.

The 230th Phi Beta Kappa Literary Exercises were held Tuesday at Sanders Theatre.

For Harvard student Phiroze Parasnis and his family, isolated in Mumbai, time spent together made up for lost time.

Ahead of Commencement ceremonies this week, we revisit inspiring messages from past speakers.

Henry Louis Gates Jr., Alphonse Fletcher University Professor and director of the Hutchins Center for African & African American Research, has been conferred an honorary degree, Litt.D., from the University of Cambridge, his alma mater.

Three student orators will deliver speeches to celebrate the Class of 2022 on Commencement Day on May 26. A student orator will deliver the Latin Salutatory on Sunday, May 29, to honor the Classes of 2020 and 2021.

William F. Lee will step down June 30 after nearly two decades of service on the University’s governing boards. In an interview with the Gazette, Lee reflected on his time in Harvard’s leadership.

Photographer captures the campus details that often go over our heads.

Anastasia Onyango, her nurse mother, rising first-year sister wrestled with COVID anxieties, cabin fever, reckoning over race — and brother’s board games. 

A year into the job, Chief Victor Clay says the University’s police department has made strides in accountability, transparency, and diversity.

Aubree Muse graduated from the College in December 2021. She was recruited by Harvard to play on the softball team but had to quit the sport after she had spine surgery to remove a tumor inside a lumbar vertebra.

Before COVID, a cancer diagnosis. Here’s how one Harvard student and his family grew closer even as the world seemed to come apart.

Brian Bertrand plans to use what he learned from his degree in statistics and in Harvard’s Theater, Dance & Media program to help arts organizations maximize their success.

The first alum of the Harvard Graduate School of Design to serve as HAA president, Allyson Mendenhall ’90, M.L.A. ’99, is committed to creating inclusive alumni experiences.

For Lucy Wickings ’22, a homeless, first-gen student, it was all uphill. Next she’s looking to help others.

Tyler Patrick, J.D.’22, is pursuing a joint program and will earn a J.D. at Harvard Law and M.P.A. at Princeton this year. He was commissioned as a Marine Corps officer in June of last year.

Katie Lapp, who has served as Harvard’s executive vice president since 2009, will step down from the role this summer.

Three Harvard Medical School scientists are among the 150 individuals recently elected to the National Academy of Sciences in recognition of their distinguished and continuing achievements in original research.

Physics Professor Norman Yao describes his journey in quantum physics.