University News

Breaking developments, leadership announcements, and policy changes from across Harvard’s schools and administration.

Johnston Gate at Harvard University with green foliage behind it

The Harvard AI Debate Heats Up

The University has pushed the adoption of AI into teaching and operations, but faculty resistance is growing louder.

by Schuyler Velasco

Construction site at the intersection of Academic Way and North Harvard Street. Two tall, unfinished concrete structures stand behind a fenced area with various signs and banners.

Construction Underway on Harvard’s American Repertory Theater

American Repertory Theater’s Allston construction announced.

by Jack R. Trapanick

Two screenshots of web pages from Harvard University, one for the "Presidential Task Force on Combating Anti-Muslim and Anti-Arab Bias" and the other for the "Presidential Task Force on Combating Antisemitism."

Harvard Interim Antisemitism and Anti-Muslim Task Force Reports 2024

Interim findings and recommendations released

by John S. Rosenberg

Harvard School of Public Health

Harvard Launches Center for LGBTQ Health

Addressing preventable causes of illness based in discrimination

by Jack R. Trapanick

John Harvard Statue

Is Harvard Antisemitic?

Two reports investigate hatred and anti-Israel sentiment.

by Max J. Krupnick

Sarah Ganz Blythe

Sarah Ganz Blythe New Harvard Art Museums Director

Assumes Harvard post in August

by John S. Rosenberg

Catherine Wolfram; Carlos Curbelo; Andrew Forrest; Aditya Mettal; Sheldon Whitehouse; James Stock

Harvard Hosts Second “Climate Action Week”

Can urgent questions facing the world’s prime polluting industries be addressed through politics and policy?

by Jonathan Shaw

Harvard Physicians on the Digital Healthcare Revolution

How much will the future of medicine be shaped by new technologies?

by Olivia Farrar

Photograph of Centennial Medalists Martin Duberman, Myra Marx Ferree, Joan Argetsinger, and Arthur K. Wheelock, Jr.

Harvard Centennial Medalists

Four alumni recognized for work

Harvard Overseers and Harvard Alumni Association Election Results

Newly elected Overseers and Harvard Alumni Association directors

Newly appointed deans Jeff Lichtman, Jeremy M. Weinstein, Sean Kelly, Nonie Lesaux

New Harvard deans, leadership, and more

New deans, Overseers’ leaders, retiring arts impresario, and more