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National Concerns about Policing Reverberate at Harvard

Police chief Riley to retire, and the University commissions an external review of the department.

by Matteo Wong

Harvard Scientists #Strike4BlackLives

Academia’s reckoning with anti-black racism

by Lydialyle Gibson

New Faculty Deans for Cabot, Eliot, Kirkland, Quincy and Winthrop Houses

Cabot, Eliot, Kirkland, Quincy and Winthrop Houses will have new leadership starting July 1

by Jonathan Shaw

Searching for a COVID-19 vaccine

The when and how of vaccines

by Jonathan Shaw

Headlines from Harvard’s history

Headlines from Harvard’s history

At Home with Harvard: Health and Fitness

Read some of our extensive coverage on breakthrough health and wellness research.

Harvard Will Guarantee Staff Pay and Benefits Past June 28

“[W]e will not be pursuing any furloughs or layoffs of our employees at this time,” executive vice president Katie Lapp wrote in an email. 

by Marina N. Bolotnikova

Protecting the press as a foundation of democracy

If the press is essential to democracy, what can be done to save news organizations?

by Erin O’Donnell

Summertime at the Arnold Arboretum

Summertime at the Arnold Arboretum

by Nell Porter-Brown

2020 GSAS Centennial Medalists

The Graduate School of Arts and Sciences’ honorands

Excerpt from Alex Keyssar “Why Do We Still Have the Electoral College?”

Problematic features of the Electoral College

Profile of Harvard diver Georgina Milne

Diver Georgina Milne pictures a post-pandemic return.

by Jacob Sweet