Campus & Community

The Harvard Alumni Association has announced that David L. Evans, Leila T. Fawaz A.M. ’72, Ph.D. ’79, and Joseph J. O’Donnell ’67, M.B.A. ’71, will receive the 2020 Harvard Medal.

From a high school electricity class in Kenya, Billy Koech knew he was destined to become an electrical engineer. This May, he will graduate from Harvard’s John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences doing just that.

Jose Cerda III ’88, Koma Gandy Fischbein ’95, and Theresa Reno-Weber, M.P.P. ’08, offer the Class of 2020 advice about the value of public service.

Q&A with HLS professor and child welfare expert Elizabeth Bartholet, who calls for a radical transformation in homeschooling.

After he graduates from Harvard School of Dental Medicine, Jeffrey Taylor will pursue a residency in oral and maxillofacial surgery where he’ll one day reconstruct damaged jaws, fix life-altering facial deformities.

The Gazette spoke to Laboratory Reopening Planning Committee head Rick McCullough to learn more about Harvard’s decision to shut down its labs, the effects that had on research, and how the University plans to ensure a safe reopening.

In this latest dispatch, Harvard staff, faculty, and students share their life from afar.

Nine Harvard University scientists have been elected by their peers to the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) in recognition of “their distinguished and continuing achievements in original research.”

Saamon Legoski, a student in Harvard Chan School’s M.P.H.-45 program is on a mission for environmental justice.

Pardis Sabeti’s lab is a research hub on infectious diseases, including COVID-19.

Marvin Merritt IV ’20 was born and raised on the small island of Deer Isle, Maine, the centerpiece for his senior thesis and a single destination in this artist’s journey.

MassCPR, a coalition of regional scientific institutions united to fight COVID-19, is awarding $16 million to 62 research projects with the promise to impact patient care within a year.

As a first-year, Jordan Villegas ’20 took his passion for archival research to the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study and spent his next four years becoming a Radcliffe triple threat.

Deeneaus ‘D’ Polk, M.P.P. ’20, found his way from Mississippi to Harvard Kennedy School via Germany — but his plan is to return to the South and bring opportunity to jobseekers.

Juan Reynoso will be the second Harvard student to have completed a new joint Master in Public Health/Master in Urban Planning degree program.

Erin McDermott has been named the John D. Nichols ’53 Family Director of Athletics, Harvard announced today.

Akshaya Annapragada, who will graduate with an A.B. in applied mathematics and an S.M. in engineering sciences-bioengineering, with a secondary in global health and health policy at the John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, arrived at Harvard eager to develop better medical tools.

Novelist Colson Whitehead joins William Faulkner, John Updike, and Booth Tarkington as the fourth to garner the Pulitzer Prize for fiction award twice.

Harvard University Dining Services has emptied its freezers and storerooms to provide food to area nonprofit grocery programs.

Five faculty members have been named Harvard College Professors for their contributions to undergraduate teaching.

David Joselit joined the department of Art, Film, and Visual Studies this semester as a professor of visual studies.

COVID-19 spurs inspiration in student volunteers who find ways to make a difference amid the pandemic’s disruption and loss

Martin Chávez and Beth Karlan to occupy senior posts on Harvard University’s Board of Overseers for the 2020–21 academic year.

How Harvard faculty and staff continue to adapt to social distancing as they stay the course.

Meet Katie Klatt — pediatric intensive care unit nurse, M.P.H. student at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, and recovered COVID-19 patient.

Richard McMasters Hunt, a faculty member in social studies for 42 years and University Marshal for two decades, died on April 10 at the age of 93.

How some Harvard professors are integrating the coronavirus crisis into their curricula.

It didn’t turn out at all the way they thought it would. Being asked to quickly leave campus and return home last month amid the mushrooming coronavirus outbreak was painful…

Harvard has launched a new grant program that will provide emergency funding to nonprofit organizations responding to COVID-19-related community needs serving the Allston-Brighton neighborhood of Boston.

Campus friend groups remain close, even if not geographically. So they’ve had to make adjustments to keep in touch.