Students

Narratives and news capturing the lives, struggles, and achievements of current students.

Brick building with a large clock and tree branches against a clear blue sky.

Trump Administration Sues Harvard over Civil Rights

The March 20 suit seeks to rescind research grants that were restored in an earlier court ruling.

by Schuyler Velasco

Ram Venkateswaran, of the HMS class of 2017, performs in the Tosteson Medical Education Center’s atrium last spring. He and pianist Chris Lim, HMS ’16, offered a joint program: “<i>Sicilienne</i>” (Fauré); “<i>Sicilienne</i>” (von Paradis); “Spanish Dance” (Granados/Kreisler); and <i>“Widmung</i>” (Schumann/Liszt).

Music and medicine converge at Harvard Medical School

Harvard Medical School turns to the humanities.

by Karolina Brook

Scenes of Harvard Yard on a mid-July morning

An undergraduate's summer at Harvard

Thoughts on a summer in Cambridge

by Francesca Annic...

President Drew Faust addresses the 14 veterans who participated in the Warrior-Scholar Project at Harvard. The week-long pilot program, which involved democracy-themed seminars as well as reading and writing workshops, ran from July 6 to July 12.

Academic Boot Camp at Harvard for Warrior-Scholars

The Warrior-Scholar Project runs its first program at Harvard.

by Francesca Annic...

Mia Karvonides

Harvard University releases a new sexual assault policy and procedures

A central University team will initiate investigations of cases.

The author climbed this tree in Cyprus’s Troodos Mountains, en route to Lagoudera.

Harvard student Ben Sobel on his semester off

Overcoming the Harvard zeal to be “productive”

by Ben Sobel

Brianna Macgregor '16 and Ozdemir Vayisoglu '16, both fellows at the Summer Humanities and Arts Research Program, digitally access information about an object at the Peabody Essex Museum (PEM) in Salem, Massachusetts, during a workshop on cultural interpretation.

Harvard students spend summer on arts and humanities research projects

Harvard undergraduates delve deep into summer humanistic research.

by Francesca Annic...

Four Harvard seniors have won scholarships to study at Cambridge University

Four seniors have won scholarships to study at Cambridge University.

Samuel Clark, in costume, shows real tourists around Yale. He later said he was trying to be helpful.

Touring Yale, trombone sextet, and talking back to John Foster Dulles

Touring Yale, trombone sextet, and talking back to John Foster Dulles

Timothy Barry-Heffernan

Harvard Commencement: Salman Kahn, Mindy Kaling, Michael Bloomberg

Fun during Commencement week: Salman Kahn on the luxe Business School, Mindy Kaling on why law rocks, Michael R. Bloomberg on strong-armed fundraising, and a helmeted Latinist

Global Health Equity Option Scholar Hanna Amanuel '16 (center) with a local family in Sierra Madre de Chiapas, Mexico. Amanuel spent this spring semester working with Compañeros En Salud México, Partners in Health's sister organization in Chiapas, as part of a new study-abroad program.

Global-Health Learning in Rural Mexico

Harvard Global Health Institute introduces a unique study-abroad opportunity, melding coursework with field experience.

by Francesca Annic...