Campus & Community

Students in Mark Fagan’s supply chain management course spent the spring semester using their skills to help the front lines of the COVID-19 crisis.

The American Academy of Arts & Sciences announced its newest members, which include 15 members of Harvard faculty and staff.

William V. Giannobile, an alumnus of the Harvard School of Dental Medicine, has been named its new dean. An expert in periodontics and oral medicine, Giannobile succeeds Bruce Donoff, who stepped down from the post in 2019 after 28 years.

The first Harvard Library-wide crowdsourcing transcription project is seeking volunteers to help transcribe the handwritten materials from the University’s 18th-century North America Collection.

Virtual workout classes help the community stay connected and healthy while social distancing.

Director William “Ned” Friedman explains the rationale for keeping the Arboretum open during the pandemic.

John Campbell discusses Harvard’s new plan to have its endowment reflect net-zero greenhouse-gas emissions by 2050.

Harvard Innovation Labs announced the 2020 President’s Innovation Challenge finalists who will be awarded a total of $510,000 at a virtual ceremony in May.

Socialize Remotely allows students, faculty, and staff to continue attending a range of extracurricular activities, and to connect.

In an announcement Tuesday, Harvard signaled its expanding commitment to attacking climate change with a dramatic new pledge to drastically reduce emissions in its investment portfolio so Harvard’s endowment can achieve “net-zero” emissions by 2050.

Members of the new Presidential Committee on Sustainability discuss why it is so important to act now to address climate change, the committee’s role in developing collaborative and innovative projects, and how community members can get involved.

Harvard Professor Michael Sandel led a campuswide audience in a Zoom event, “Harvard Live: Pandemic Ethics.”

The Gazette reached out to members of the Harvard community as they entered their second month of social isolation to find out what they are reading, watching, doing, and listening to in the age of coronavirus.

Explore Harvard’s Widener Library, from its marble rotunda to the Loker Reading Room, through a new 360-degree virtual tour.

Harvard Museum of Ancient Near East more “accurately reflects the diversity of the collection.”

Harvard students and faculty offer glimpses into their lives during social distancing.

Harvard’s best angles, to display in the background of conference calls.

A Q&A with Harvard University Health Services’ Executive Director Giang Nguyen about the steps taken to move as much care online as it could as the novel coronavirus approached. He also outlines new resources available to the Harvard community.

Temporary suspension of construction work by the city of Boston has pushed back the planned fall opening of Harvard’s Science and Engineering Complex in Allston until next spring semester.

How Harvard is observing Easter and Passover in the age of coronavirus.

While the majority of the Wyss Institute is working remotely, a small but dedicated team is still coming into the lab to help treat and cure COVID-19.

The background and history of the Harvard House mascots and the students beneath the masks.

A look at how Harvard University Information Technology helped the University, including the College and 12 graduate Schools, move all classes online.

One Harvard student describes what life is like on a deserted campus while another shares his experience going home and the adjustments the followed.

Harvard University has donated $250,000 to support a temporary emergency shelter in Cambridge.

Graduate School of Design Dean Sarah M. Whiting diagnosed with non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma.

Nearly two weeks after he announced that he and his wife, Adele Fleet Bacow, had been exposed to the novel coronavirus, Harvard President Larry Bacow shared his experience with the pandemic illness.

Harvard Medical School’s Family Van co-hosted a webinar to discuss what the mobile clinics have to offer during the coronavirus pandemic — and it’s a lot.

What is normal in a quarantined world? Apparently, whatever you want it to be.

A look at how virtual classes are going at Harvard’s graduate Schools, whose needs and missions are different from the College’s.