Muhammad Yunus, who won the 2006 Nobel Peace Prize for founding the micro-lending institution Grameen Bank, spoke at HBS Thursday.

Ten finalist teams have been selected from more than 170 applicants to the President’s Challenge for social entrepreneurship, the University announced Thursday.

Speaking before a crowd of more than 400 people, University President Drew G. Faust discussed the evolving perceptions of the Civil War and the ties between war and the humanities at the Boston Public Library Tuesday evening.

University President Drew G. Faust has been nominated to serve on the Board of Directors of office supply store chain Staples, the company announced this week.

Over 170 teams submitted applications for the President’s Challenge, a university-wide competition that encourages students to develop entrepreneurial solutions to the world’s social problems.

Harvard hopes to publicly launch its University-wide capital campaign in 2013. The campaign will likely aim to raise at least $6 billion, according to senior administrators and people with knowledge of the situation, which would likely make it the largest capital campaign ever run by an institution of higher education.

Harvard welcomed the Army SROTC back to campus Wednesday with a ribbon-cutting ceremony at the Army’s new office in the SOCH.

Harvard University announced Wednesday that it has signed an agreement with the U.S. Army to formally recognize the Army Senior Reserve Officers’ Training Corps.

History professor Lizabeth Cohen will serve as the next dean of the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, the University announced Thursday.