Campus & Community

When she came to Harvard as a first-year, Danielle Davis ’21 thought music was her focus … until engineering piqued her interest.

Harvard Business School student Shyamli Badgaiyan was among those who helped quickly mobilize a cross-university fundraising effort that has already raised more than $160,000 to help India battle COVID-19.

Four Harvard faculty were among the 120 members elected to the National Academy of Sciences.

Athlete, philanthropist, and the star behind “Linsanity,” Jeremy Lin ’10 has been named Class Day speaker by the Harvard College Class of 2021.

Samantha Fletcher, Ed.M.’21, figured out a way to combine her passions for equity, education, and media when she started Harvard Graduate School of Education’s Technology, Innovation, and Education Program this past fall. Now she’s ready to change the world.

Growing up in central Indiana, Gayatri Balasubramanian focused on academics and music, but when she came to Harvard she wanted to take on new challenges — and she did.

Yoseph Boku’s drive to make a difference started his first year at Harvard, when he realized he could help local disadvantaged teenagers and young adults.

Stefanie Stantcheva was named a 2021 Andrew Carnegie Fellow, along with 25 others

Victor Clay has been appointed as the new chief of the Harvard University Police Department. Clay comes to Harvard from the California Institute of Technology, where he was chief of campus security and parking services.

Victor Clay, a law enforcement professional with more than 35 years of experience, has been named the next chief of the Harvard University Police Department (HUPD).

Since the beginning of the coronavirus outbreak, the Gazette has periodically checked in with Thomas J. Hollister, Harvard’s vice president for finance and chief financial officer, for updates on how the pandemic has affected the University’s finances.

Helena Buonanno Foulkes, a leader in consumer health care and retail, has been elected president of Harvard University’s Board of Overseers for the 2021-22 academic year. P. Lindsay Chase-Lansdale, a developmental psychologist and former vice provost for academics at Northwestern University, will be vice chair of the board’s executive committee.

The pandemic sent Jessica Miller ’21 home to West Virginia, where she found herself coping with remote classes while also helping her community through her work as an EMT. It helped her stay connected, she says.

The American Academy of Arts & Sciences announced its newest members, including 10 from the Harvard community.

Nine research teams will share $1 million in the seventh round of Climate Change Solutions Fund awards for proposals that create critical knowledge, propel novel ideas, and lead progress toward solutions that can be applied at Harvard and around the world.

From environmental justice to environmental litigation, Harvard students shared their passion for the natural world and their designs on the fight for its future.

In Harvard Square, new businesses emerge and old favorites awaken after a long pandemic year.

Judith and Herman Chernoff are believed to be among the oldest living couples in Massachusetts, if not the oldest. How have they done it? Herman Chernoff, a Harvard professor emeritus, and his wife are happy to share some tips.

Shannon Freyer, an animal-care technician in Harvard’s Department of Stem Cell and Regenerative Biology, shares stories about her grandfather, who died on his 86th birthday due to COVID-19.

Celebrated poet Kevin Young ’92 will give the address at the 151st Harvard Alumni Association Annual Meeting. Young is the director of the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture.

Since the start of April, about 200 students, faculty, and staff have been taking part in a monthlong, in-person-and-virtual hybrid learning pilot for the Faculty of Arts and Sciences.

As director of the Harvard Healthy Buildings Program at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Joseph G. Allen offers special insight on how the pandemic affected him, his work, and his family.

With renovations complete, accessibility enhanced, and new collections to show off, staff at the Houghton Library look forward to welcoming visitors again.

Harvard Professor Gonzalo Giribet takes on bird photography as pandemic hobby.

Ronald Chandler remembers his mother, Carol Marie Chandler.

The Harvard Alumni Association (HAA) announced that Walter K. Clair ’77, M.D. ’81, M.P.H. ’85, Nancy-Beth Gordon Sheerr ’71, and Preston N. Williams, Ph.D. ’67, will receive the 2021 Harvard Medal. The awards will be presented virtually to the 2021 and 2020 recipients at the association’s annual meeting on June 4.

Preservation Services Director Brenda Bernier discusses preservation during a pandemic — and what comes next.

Brenda Tindal, an award-winning educator and scholar from the International African American Museum in Charleston, S.C., has been named executive director of Harvard Museums of Science and Culture. Tindal will begin her new position May 17.

Twenty-five venture initiatives will compete for more than half a million dollars in prizes in the 2021 President’s Innovation Challenge.

Gazette senior science writer Alvin Powell shares his view on the complexities of dealing with death amid pandemic, coupled with a profile of his colorful, fiercely independent, oft-married, world traveler mom who succumbed to COVID-19 last spring.