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  • United in service

    The second annual Global Day of Service on Aug. 30 brought together nearly 1,400 Harvard students and alumni who worked with 71 service opportunities.

    Team leader Kody Christiansen '23.
  • New learning curve

    After 18 months away, Harvard students returned cautiously and excitedly to physical classrooms across campus.

    Linsey Moyer teaches "Quantitative Physiology as a Basis for Bioengineering."
  • Making a splash

    Harvard student swimmer David Abrahams wins silver in his first Paralympics in Tokyo.

    David Abrahams swimming.
  • Head in the stars, hands in the dirt

    The garden at the Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian provides nutrition and a visual feast that is open to all.

  • Focus on health and equity to meet 2026 climate goal, advises Sustainability Committee

    Harvard is engaging its researchers and industry climate leaders to identify and invest in projects, according to the Harvard Presidential Committee on Sustainability.

    Wind turbine.
  • Harvard names vice provost for climate and sustainability

    James H. Stock, a Harvard professor and economist known for his expertise on energy and environmental policy, has been named the University’s inaugural vice provost for climate and sustainability.

    James H. Stock.
  • Making Shakespeare feel relevant

    Jeffrey Wilson, who teaches Shakespeare to first-year students, says that skeptical students are often the most successful ones.

    Jeffrey Wilson.
  • Forward thinker

    As campus life resumes, President Larry Bacow says he hopes lessons learned from the pandemic can help us navigate challenges and seize opportunities.

    President Larry Bacow.
  • Need to embrace pandemic lessons

    During the first Morning Prayers of the semester, Harvard President Larry Bacow reminded his listeners of the incredible challenges faced during the pandemic and called on them to remember the countless ways people across campus and beyond have supported each other in such difficult times.

    Larry Bacow and the Reverend Matthew Potts,
  • John Harvard gets a facelift

    A team of specialists cleaned and restored the iconic John Harvard Statue in Harvard Yard earlier this summer, temporarily returning his golden toe to its original brown hue.

    Robert Shure restoring John Harvard Statue.
  • Thrown into the deep end in the psych ward

    Excerpt from memoir chronicles an intern’s day in the ER.

    "Committed" book cover.
  • Bacow celebrates community at dual Convocation

    Convocation ceremony for the Class of 2024 and Class of 2025 was held in Tercentenary Theatre.

    The Harvard Band
  • Far from the madding crowd

    Students, faculty, staff, and affiliates share their favorite places to write — courtyards, hallway alcoves, cafes, and library stacks — around Cambridge and Boston.

    João Marcos Copertina Pereria.
  • Serving up conviviality — and rocket spikes

    For 40 years, the Rhino League has been played on the Harvard Bio Labs volleyball court.

    Rhino volleyball players.
  • ‘It feels like a university again’

    First-year students were welcomed to campus for the first in-person semester since March 2020.

    Keegan Harkavy '25 leads the way up the stairs with his parents Brad and Mador Harklavy taking up the rear.
  • Remembering biochemistry Professor Guido Guidotti

    Guido Guidotti, Higgins Professor of Biochemistry, taught hundreds of students during more than 60 years of research and teaching. Guidotti died April 5 in Newton, Massachusetts, following a long battle with prostate cancer. He was 87.

    Guido Guidotti.
  • Preparing for future cyberattacks

    Bruce Huang discusses the need for more cybersecurity professionals and how the need is being addressed through the Harvard program.

    Computer screen.
  • House-bound

    The first sophomores, juniors, and seniors moved into Harvard’s Houses on Friday, a welcome return to the familiar and the newly different.

    Lowell residents, Halima Badri '23, left and Maria Gonzalez '23.
  •  A summer of service for first-years

    Eight first-year Harvard students talk about their work with the SPARK program and the unique challenges created by the pandemic.

    Daniel Villani.
  • Harvard Extension is good fit for CEO of Native American nonprofit

    Chris James, president and CEO of The National Center for Native American Enterprise Development in Mesa, Arizona, shares his Extension School experience.

    Chris James.
  • Who wants ice cream? At this point, pretty much everyone

    Despite downpour, the Department of Astronomy ice cream social event draws a crowd.

    People eating ice cream.
  • New 24/7 mental-health hotline for Harvard students opens

    Counseling and Mental Health Services has launched a new 24/7 hotline for students who have mental health concerns or questions of any kind, whether they are in immediate distress or not, on campus or elsewhere.

    Harvard Yard in fall.
  • Veteran biotech executive to run new center aimed at boosting cell and gene therapies

    Landmark Bio, a new center for advanced cell manufacturing, announced that former Orchard Therapeutics, Amgen, and Genzyme executive Ran Zheng will take over as chief executive. Landmark Bio is a partnership of Boston-area universities, hospitals, and private industry led by Harvard and MIT.

    Ran Zheng,
  • A pioneering geneticist and Renaissance man of parts

    Colleagues and friends remember Richard Lewontin as whip-smart, a fierce debater, and an engaged and loyal mentor and friend.

    Dick Lewontin.
  • Simple brilliance

    In the summertime the days lengthen, the landscape brightens, calling to mind crisp sheets on a clothesline, billowy clouds, or a crisp culinary uniform.

  • First-time teachers thrown into the COVID deep end

    During the pandemic, the Harvard Teacher Fellows program quickly shifted its training from in-person to online teaching.

    Maria Perez Franco, Tatiana Patino, and Amanda Flores.
  • Slavery isn’t dead, Clint Smith says. It isn’t even past.

    Shining a light on the complex history of slavery and how we understand its lasting impacts is at the heart of Clint Smith’s latest work.

    Robert E. Lee statue.
  • Lifting restrictions, urging vaccination

    HUHS Director Giang Nguyen discusses the delta variant of COVID-19 and gives a first look at what campus re-entry will look like.

    Vacinnation clinic on campus.
  • The evolution of bigotry

    James H. Sidanius devoted much of his career to social justice and racial equality.

    James Sidanius.
  • Innovative higher-ed IT veteran named new CIO

    Klara Jelinkova, who developed a reputation as an innovator in her nearly three decades in information technology at major U.S. research universities, has been named vice president and University chief information officer, Harvard announced today.

    Klara Jelinkova.