Campus & Community

The Harvard community came out to join in the 2019 Arts Festival with live music and dance performances, arts and crafts, theater, and more.

Ten 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.” Two Harvard scientists also received awards from the NAS.

Onege Maroadi graduates from the Harvard Extension School with a master’s degree in international relations, a clean bill of health after fighting stage 3 cancer, a plan to help the world become a more peaceful place, and a happy toddler at home. But she almost didn’t make it to Cambridge.

The 24th annual Harvard Powwow, to be held May 4, celebrates Native American peoples and cultures.

A mobile app that stops cyberbullying, a way to support tenants’ rights and housing advocacy, technology that raises the standard of infection prevention, and a science-driven approach to reinventing everyday consumer products received the four top prizes in the eighth annual President’s Innovation Challenge Showcase and Awards Ceremony.

Sonia Gomez and Marla Ramírez were a few weeks into their fellowships at the Mahindra Humanities Center when they discovered a surprising family connection.

Martin Kilson, who in 1969 became the first African American to be named a full professor at Harvard College, died on April 24.

Al Gore has been chosen to speak on Class Day, the day before Harvard’s 368th Commencement. The former vice president, a Nobel Prize laureate and Harvard alumnus, has had a long career in public service and since leaving office has devoted his life to raising awareness of the threat of climate change.

Harvard College’s Immediate Gratification Players discuss how improv skills can translate to social and professional skills.

Jake Moore will add a degree from the Kennedy School to the medals and commendations he has earned over 15 years in the Navy. His post-military target is human rights work with refugees and asylum seekers.

Chess players from around the region gathered at the Smith Campus Center last weekend for a chess tournament that saw players of all skill level and ages meet on the chessboard.

As part of its ongoing efforts to ensure the accessibility of its digital systems and communications to persons with disabilities, Harvard University today announced the adoption of a new, University-wide Digital Accessibility Policy. This policy is intended to increase the accessibility of Harvard’s public-facing websites and web-based applications, as well as the digital content that Harvard creates and posts on those sites.

Alumnus gives $9 million in largest donation to date to support independent research on the science of cannabinoids at Harvard and MIT. “Our desire is to fill the research void that currently exists in the science of cannabis,” said donor Charles R. “Bob” Broderick.

The public arena has made great strides toward diversity — as Harvard’s evolution has shown — but neighborhoods and schools need to catch up, according to sociologist Orlando Patterson, who said he arrived on an overwhelmingly white campus in 1970.

The two-day “Vision & Justice” conference at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study brought together a wide range of scholars and artists for performances and discussions considering the role of the arts in understanding the nexus of art, race, and justice.

The Rev. Jonathan Walton will step down from his role as Plummer Professor of Christian Morals and Pusey Minister of the Memorial Church in order to become dean of Wake Forest University School of Divinity. Walton, who assumed leadership of the church in 2012, will leave this summer.

Harvard College’s incoming class will have a chance to participate in the inaugural Service Starts with Summer Program (3SP), an initiative meant to encourage students to engage in public service in their hometowns.

Harvard faculty and administrators discussed racism, sexism, LGBTQ rights, politics, and poverty at the FAS Diversity Conference “A Decade of Dialogue.”

Genesis De Los Santos grew up in Dorchester and credits her community’s support for her unlikely journey from a neighborhood school to a private middle school academy to an elite high school and then to Harvard.

The living walls at the Richard A. and Susan F. Smith Campus Center — eight organic interior designs made of climbing, creeping arms of trees and blocks of ferns and other tropical plants —are a welcome addition to Harvard’s newly configured social hub year-round.

Harvard seniors share their bucket lists of things to do during their final semester.

A sustainability-themed escape room served as a test of puzzle-solving skills and a lesson on sustainable lifestyle shifts during Harvard Heat Week.

An interview with Bridget Terry Long, the new dean of the Harvard Graduate School of Education, on her first eight months on the job.

Economist Raj Chetty and sociologist Michèle Lamont of Harvard are among the Andrew Carnegie Fellows named this year by the Carnegie Corporation of New York. Also known as the “Brainy Award,” the fellowship grants up to $200,000 to each of 32 researchers writing and publishing in the humanities and social sciences.

Eight students from Highline High School in Burien, Wash., recently spent five days in Boston and Cambridge visiting Harvard and MIT as part of the Harvard Club of Seattle Crimson Achievement Program.

The Harvard Alumni Association has announced that Teresita Alvarez-Bjelland ’76, M.B.A. ’79, Dan H. Fenn Jr. ’44, A.M. ’72, and Tamara Elliott Rogers ’74 will receive the 2019 Harvard Medal.

Harvard launches its first new survey on sexual misconduct in four years and expects different answers in light of the “Me Too” movement.

Henna Hundal ’19 works as interviewer on her own radio show on Harvard’s WHRB, bringing the larger world to her listening audience.

Success stories from Harvard’s Bridge Program, which pairs student tutors with immigrant employees to ease the transition to a new culture, are celebrated.

New English and African and African American Studies Professor Jesse McCarthy took a roundabout path to academia. Now he’s teaching James Baldwin and Henry James and showing students there are many ways to be successful.