Campus & Community

Cathy Payne chose to get a degree at the Harvard Extension School to honor the memories of loved ones.

Departing FAS Dean Michael Smith’s investment in world-class scholars is paying big dividends, colleagues say.

At the third annual Summer Explorations series at the Harvard Ed Portal, local students of all ages experienced programs that enriched learning, stimulated curiosity, and explored everything from storytelling to ceramics to bike riding.

Pamela Lim came to Harvard Extension School to ensure her son — initially diagnosed with multiple learning disabilities and later found to be profoundly gifted — was comfortable. She walked away from the experience with her own degree as a master of liberal arts.

Extension School graduate credits A.L.M. degree with helping her landing a new job.

Elorm Avakame chose to pursue a concurrent M.P.P./M.D. degree at Harvard Kennedy School and Harvard Medical School because “in Medical School, we are all training to be doctors, but here at the Kennedy School, people are training for so many different walks of life.”

Cuicui Chen, who received her Ph.D. in Public Policy, says her research underscores the importance of drawing upon accurate beliefs when making market-based decisions.

Jay Finch attended a conference at the Harvard Kennedy School that brought undergraduate sophomores from diverse backgrounds to campus for a weekend introduction to graduate school in public service. The conference changed his path as a public servant.

Harvard Business School’s Bharat Anand will shift to University-wide role overseeing innovation efforts, succeeding Peter Bol as vice provost for advances in learning.

Students, alumni, higher education leaders and others join amicus briefs supporting Harvard in the face of a lawsuit that alleges discrimination in admissions

Harvard philosopher Stanley Cavell, who died in June at age 91, was remembered by former students and colleagues as an extraordinary writer and teacher.

Daniel Ziblatt, Eaton Professor of the Science of Government, has been chosen as the recipient of the Woodrow Wilson Foundation Award, a top accolade in political science, for his book “Conservative Parties and the Birth of Democracy.”

Wendell Adjetey, a postdoc fellow at the Weatherhead Center, is paying it forward with a foundation that helps the most marginalized peoples of the African Great Lakes region get an education.

The proposed expansion of Harvard Graduate School of Design will include new space to be integrated into the heart of the School’s existing structure.

Harvard Medical School’s Benyam Kinde, Ph.D. ’16, M.D., ’18, led investigations that uncovered a novel role of the MECP2 protein — which when mutated leads to the devastating neurodevelopmental disorder Rett syndrome — in regulating gene expression in the developing brain.

Harvard Business School alumnus and former member of Harvard’s Board of Overseer C.D. (“Dick”) Spangler, M.B.A. ’56, died July 22 at his home in Charlotte, N.C. He was 86 years old.

Scholars and staff welcomed the appointment of Claudine Gay as the new Edgerley Family Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences.

Maria Zlatkova shares the challenges of coming to Harvard from Bulgaria and discovering an amazing support system in a group of computer science majors.

Claudine Gay will become the next Edgerley Family Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Harvard President Lawrence S. Bacow announced.

Child of Somali nomads, Harvard Kennedy School’s Hodan Osman, M.C./M.P.A. Mason Fellow, finds she is “passionate about state-building.”

The eldest of three children in a Mexican-American family in Texas, Jessica Ruiz, M.D. ’18, was one of only 14 members of the Class of 2018 who received the M.D. degree with Honors in a Special Field (magna cum laude).

Harvard and crimson are synonymous. But all over campus, brighter shades of red abound, too.

The newly redesigned Harvard Library website puts users first, with features that make it easy to discover and use its services, tools, and collections.

With 1.4 million volumes in more than a dozen languages, the Harvard-Yenching Library is the largest academic library for East Asian studies in the Western world.

In a Q&A session, Harvard’s Muslim chaplain, Khalil Abdur-Rashid, explains what he’s found here, and where he’d like to focus his ministry next.

Patti Bellinger has been named chief of staff and strategic adviser to Harvard President Larry Bacow.

Jake Kaufmann ’93 will replace Sally Donahue as the Griffin Director of Financial Aid on July 16. Donahue is retiring after 36 years at Harvard.

In a final, festive farewell, Harvard President Drew Faust said goodbye to her position as the University’s top administrator.

For more than 50 years, prominent Boston business executive Joe O’Donnell ’67, M.B.A. ’71, has served in different capacities at Harvard, as an elected director of the Harvard Alumni Association, a Corporation member, and an Overseer. He will step down from the Corporation on June 30.

A group of Harvard-trained educators is working to direct more attention to challenges faced by teachers and students in rural America.