Campus & Community

Harvard faculty, students, researchers, and staff are working with hospitals, first responders, state and city leaders, and many more across Greater Boston to support the response to the coronavirus pandemic.

Harvard’s governing boards have announced the delay of the 2020 Overseer and HAA Elected Director elections until July to allow voters time to respond and adapt to the COVID-19 crisis.

The Division of Continuing Education, which offers nearly 900 online courses each year, is helping the College move to online learning.

In response to the coronavirus pandemic, Harvard College will adopt an Emergency Satisfactory/Emergency Unsatisfactory (SEM/UEM) grading policy for the spring semester.

Harvard Medical School is offering this year’s graduating students the option to receive their diplomas early so that, if they choose, they can be deployed into hospitals to help with COVID-19 patients.

Harvard announces it will guarantee workers’ pay and benefits through May 28, despite disruptions from the coronavirus.

Harvard College announced that 1,981 have been accepted to the Class of 2024 in regular-action decisions.

Harvard professors offer early responses to teaching online, with some finding hitches tempered by surprising benefits.

For the first time, the annual Harvard Medical School Match Day celebration went virtual in response to the COVID-19 pandemic that has shifted Quad classes online and caused clinical clerkships to be suspended until March 31.

Suzannah Clark, the Morton B. Knafel Professor of Music and Harvard College professor in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, has been named the next director of the Mahindra Humanities Center, effective July 1.

Professor Jeannie Suk Gersen shares her experience using Zoom to teach her class of 115 students in “Constitutional Law: Separation of Powers, Federalism, and Fourteenth Amendment.“

A roundup of efforts by the Harvard community to use the web to maintain connection and a sense of kinship.

Thomas Hollister details the planning the University had already done for the eventuality of a downturn and what the future may bring amid the coronavirus outbreak.

Harvard’s graduate and professional Schools have had to adjust quickly to the new realities brought on by the coronavirus pandemic.

Harvard’s 369th Commencement ceremony will be indefinitely postponed, a move aimed at stemming the spread of the coronavirus.

Harvard scientists put their research on hold for safety, and see chance to help hospitals with precious gear.

As the University responds to the coronavirus pandemic, including shifting to virtual learning for the rest of the academic year, Harvard Business School Dean Nitin Nohria will stay on the job until the end of the year, Harvard President Larry Bacow today announced.

Harvard photographer Rose Lincoln returned to campus this past weekend to capture the thoughts and images of students as they readied themselves to return home.

Lizabeth Cohen has won the 2020 Bancroft Prize in American History.

Changes across Harvard’s campus reflect the need to stem the spread of the novel coronavirus.

To protect the health of the Harvard Medical School community, first-year Medical and Dental School students, as well as second- and third-year dental students, were asked to vacate their rooms in Vanderbilt Hall. Research laboratories will also be shuttered by 5 p.m. on March 18.

It’s all hands on deck to help students arrange travel, ship and store their stuff, and depart campus.

Mark Elliott, vice provost for international affairs, and Martha Gladue, director of the Harvard International Office, discuss what the new U.S. travel rules mean for foreign students, scholars, and those studying abroad.

The American Repertory Theater has canceled or postponed a series of upcoming events in response to the coronavirus pandemic.

A recently acquired archive highlights the library’s decades-long work of celebrating the efforts and achievements of women.

Vice President for Campus Services Meredith Weenick on the challenges of preventing the spread of disease and helping students move out on a tight timeline.

Harvard students reflect on the shift to online classes and an unplanned move home.

Harvard Art Museums and others will temporarily close to the public beginning March 13 in an effort to slow the transmission of the COVID-19 virus.

At Harvard, the rise of coronavirus prompts new approaches to work, fresh concerns for those who do it, says Vice President for Human Resources Marilyn Hausammann.

University offers coronavirus resources and help guides for students, professors, and staff.