Campus & Community

A look at the National Center for Rural Education Research Networks, six months after it launched with a $10 million grant from the Institute of Education Sciences at the U.S. Department of Education.

The Gazette spoke with John Palfrey, former Henry N. Ess III Professor of Law and vice dean for Library and Information Resources at HLS, and former executive director of the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society about how his Harvard time prepared him for his new role to lead one of the country’s largest philanthropic organizations.

Harvard students and those from Cambridge public schools joined their voices in a rally calling for climate change action Friday on Harvard’s Science Center Plaza.

Emily Balskus will be honored on Sept. 23 with the Blavatnik National Award for Young Scientists for her work in tracking never-before-seen chemistry to specific bacteria in the human gut.

Harvard Link is an application that for the first time funnels University-related events, news, organizations, and faculty and staff contact information into a centralized data bank. The system then analyzes that data and creates personalized dashboards for users based on their professional interests.

Operation Impact gives students from across Harvard firsthand experience with education innovation start-ups.

Student Late Night brought 1,300 University students to the Harvard Art Museums for an evening of art, music, food and more.

Harvard University announced that its endowment has joined Climate Action 100+, an investor-led initiative to ensure that the world’s largest corporate greenhouse gas emitters take steps to address climate change.

In a conversation between Claudine Gay, Edgerley Family Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, and Bob Scalise, the John D. Nichols ’53 Family Director of Athletics, the student-athlete experience, culture of programming, and department structure are discussed.

Thanks to a new digital tool, finding a study space at one of Harvard’s libraries is more tailor-made than time-consuming.

Harvard President Larry Bacow examines the University’s multifaceted role in the battle against climate change.

The Arnold Arboretum and the city of Boston celebrated the nearly complete Weld Hill Solar Project at today’s “switch-throwing” ceremony.

Harvard has increased efforts in recent years to recruit veterans, working with the Defense Department and conducting outreach via community college centers for former members of the military.

Students popped in and out of classrooms, labs, and lecture halls in the first days of the semester, hunting for just the right Gen Ed class — the one that…

During her first full year as the dean of Harvard’s Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, Emma Dench has been focused on connecting students from around the University to GSAS, and helping them connect with her.

Incoming Harvard medical and dental students talk about the people who helped them most.

Roslindale native Kate Swain Smith is the fourth student to become a fellow since the Harvard Presidential City of Boston Fellowship program debuted in 2016.

The two-year renovation preserved historical character and added a few 21st-century upgrades.

Late nights. Discarded drafts. That one great idea. Harvard first-years reflect on the agony and the ecstasy of writing their admissions essay.

The Ig Nobel Prize ceremony, the spoof of the Nobel Prize that honors obscure science research, is set for Sept. 12 at Sanders Theatre.

The nearly 350 astronomers, postdoctoral fellows, graduate students, and undergraduates who worked for more than a decade to capture the first-ever image of a black hole have been named the recipients of the 2020 Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics.

Ya-Chieh Hsu and Durba Mitra receive Roslyn Abramson Award for excellence in teaching undergraduates.

Professor and physician Giang T. Nguyen, head of student health services at Penn, viewed as a champion of diversity and inclusion.

Harvard’s new Gen Ed courses tackle subjects from racial justice and philosophy to music and engineering.

For her Service Starts with Summer project, South Carolina native Izzy Goodchild-Michelman ’23 spent six weeks working on a farm, revamping the educational Seed to Table curriculum that serves elementary and middle-school students.

Whether you’re standing at the Harvard Statue in the morning, noon, or evening, the scene is almost always the same: Crowds of five, 10, or 50 converge to take a photo with the statue. For some, the statue is the embodiment of the University. For others a photo with it is just a box to check.

Universities should be centers for open debate and discussion, where different opinions and perspectives are welcomed, Harvard President Larry Bacow said during the first Morning Prayers of the fall term.

Harvard College’s Class of 2023 assembled for convocation under threatening skies. Harvard President Larry Bacow urged the students to avoid stepping-stones and embrace the unexpected.

More than 1,500 first-year students rolled up their sleeves and went to work across Greater Boston on Thursday for the Class of 2023 Day of Service.

U.S. Supreme Court Associate Justice Elena Kagan came to HLS to impart words of wisdom and encouragement to first-year law students as one of the highlights of the orientation week.