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Protesters march holding signs in a public square with buildings and trees in the background.

Harvard Graduate Workers Begin Strike

In the second walkout in six months, union leaders call for better pay and benefits and a stronger grievance process.

by Lydialyle Gibson

Jones professor of statistics Xiao-Li Meng, Ph.D. ’90 has been appointed dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences

Harvard news: Grad School dean Xiao-Li Meng, Marc Hauser, rugby, and more

Harvard news: Graduate School dean Xiao-Li Meng, Marc Hauser, University Professor Eric Maskin, and more

Jay Harris

Harvard College investigates cheating

The College investigates more than 100 students in an exam-cheating case—and explores broader teaching and learning concerns

Meg Rithmire

Chinese expert Meg Rithmire is independent thinker at harvard business school

Young Chinese scholar at Harvard Business School

Jessica Tuchman Mathews and Ted Wells

Harvard senior governing board elects Tuchman, Wells

Harvard's senior governing board completes its expansion to 13 members, electing Jessica Tuchman Mathews '67 and Theodore V. Wells Jr., J.D.-M.B.A. '76

Lloyd Shapley

Harvard economics professor Alvin Roth and Lloyd Shapley ’44 share Nobel prize

A faculty member and an alumnus are recognized for work on the design of markets and matching theory.

An aerial view indicating the site

Harvard Business School new Chao building fellowships

The Chao Family Foundation donates $40 million for an executive-education facility and fellowships.

Students challenged to solve world's problems by Harvard president Drew Faust

President Drew Faust challenges students to solve the world's most pressing problems.

David Wineland

Harvard-educated quantum physicist David Wineland shares 2012 physics Nobel

The Harvard-educated physicist is recognized for using light to measure quantum states.

Wang produced a pigment mixing system that generated 411 colors—equal in number to the most comprehensive list of identified cell types in the adult human body—and deployed a color-coding system that he used to paint each individual cell by hand.

Michael Wang '03 creates micrograph art of artificially produced stem cells

Michael Wang's Differentiation Series, a sequence of micrograph images of artificially produced stem cells, is on display at the Carpenter Center through October 7.

The front of a papyrus fragment from an early Christian codex on which is written a previously unknown gospel, the Gospel of Jesus's Wife.

Harvard professor finds new Christian gospel fragment refers to Jesus's wife

A papyrus fragment interpreted by Hollis professor Karen L. King quotes Jesus speaking of "my wife."