Campus & Community

Harvard will kick off this year’s graduation ceremonies on May 23 with a range of virtual events to honor and recognize the Class of 2021.

With her new degree, Carmen Beals, A.L.M. ’21, is making a shift in her career as she works to diversify museums.

Anne Margulies and Marilyn Hausammann, two of Harvard’s leading executives, with nearly 40 years of service to the University between them, will retire at the end of May.

For Graduate School of Design student Ayaka Yamashita, studying design was a way to understand human difference through various perspectives and mediums.

More than 5,300 people (and counting) follow Samyra Miller ’21 on Instagram, where she dispenses information and opinions on everything from how to choose a good Gen Ed course and strategies for navigating campus social scenes to where to get good coffee and her shopping hauls.

Wrestling provided life lessons for senior Cliff Wang, even when the sport was taken from him.

Kelly Brignac grew up in New Orleans, immersed in customs that had deep roots in French culture. Now she is graduating with a Ph.D. that explores the exportation of French culture, and its roots in the slave trade.

Inspired by a first-year human rights seminar, Francesco Rolando wants to help remove barriers to health care, especially for marginalized populations.

Joggers, walkers, cyclists, and skateboarders enjoy the weekend closure of Memorial Drive along the Charles River.

Monica Pesswani, M.C./M.P.A. ’21, came to Harvard seeking a global perspective as she worked to create educational equality in India.

It was her interest in research that brought Zahra Aldawood, D.M.Sc. ’18, M.M.Sc. ’21, to Harvard School of Dental Medicine.

Rawan Alhawamdeh has a vision for improving the lives of children with autism spectrum disorder, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, and giftedness.

Sally Falk Moore, a legal and political anthropologist and Harvard Law School legend, dies at 97.

Using robotic telescopes and other engaging astronomy activities, researchers at the Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian hope to spark interest in the sciences.

The launch of the new Harvard Athletics Video Vault makes it possible for sports fans to relive some of the University’s most historic sporting moments.

Graduate Rajna Swaminathan has spent the better part of her life exploring, improvising, and bringing together different worlds — in music and in life.

Steven A. Chambers, Ed.L.D. ’21, likes a challenge, even if it is figuring out how to educate children when indoor classrooms aren’t an option.

New Harvard dining services director brings focus on nutrition, sustainability, inclusion.

Five faculty members join the ranks of Harvard College Professors.

New faculty deans at Adams House, Mercedes Becerra and Salmaan Keshavjee, will begin July 1.

HMS students share how coronavirus and the pandemic changed their expectations and experiences of the last year.

Starting in fall, Harvard sophomores can join I-HUM and USI for intense focus on humanities.

This self-described “germophobe” shifts from medicine to key research investigating obesity, inflammation, and metabolic diseases.

Professor Melanie Wood has won the Alan T. Waterman Award, becoming the first woman ever to receive it in mathematics.

For Kobie Gordon, M.M.Sc. ’21, the ability of dentists to transform lives by fixing smiles was a superpower he wanted to possess.

Whether building an aircraft or learning to break dance, Harvard College student Robert Malate chose his own path.

Matthew Ichihashi Potts, a professor of religious studies and literature, an Episcopal priest, and an active member of the Harvard community, has been named Pusey Minister in the Memorial Church and Plummer Professor of Christian Morals, effective July 1.

Thirteen winners of the 10th annual Harvard President’s Innovation Challenge awarded $510,000 from Bertarelli Foundation.

At a Meeting of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences on May 4, 2021, the Minute honoring the life and service of the late Nathan Glazer, Professor of Education and Social Structure, Emeritus, was placed upon the records. Professor Glazer greatly influenced scholarship on American culture and ethnicity.

At a Meeting of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences on May 4, 2021, the Minute honoring the life and service of the late Richard Newell Cooper, Maurits C. Boas Professor of International Economics, was placed upon the records. Professor Cooper was particularly known for his seminal work on the theory and practice of international macroeconomic policy cooperation.