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Can Harvard’s Football Team Repeat Its Ivy League Success?

Despite personnel losses, Crimson captain Xaviah Bascon is upbeat about the 2026 season.

by Dick Friedman

Harvard renovates building to create new labs for stem-cell research

Harvard renews an older building to create new labs in Cambridge for stem-cell research.

Update on Fogg Art Museum renovation

Gutting the Fogg Art Museum on the way to renovating it

Harvard Medical School revises conflicts-of-interest policies

As corporate relationships with researchers and doctors come under more scrutiny, Harvard Medical School updates its policies.

Harvard moves to a tenure track for appointing professors

Revised promotion policies transform younger faculty members' lives—and promise sweeping changes in the professoriate as a whole.

Harvard Law librarian is organist for Boston Red Sox

Meet the Law School librarian who plays for the Red Sox.

Harvard's EVP revises budget, capital-planning projects

Executive vice president Katie Lapp is swiftly altering the ways Harvard budgets, builds, computes, and more.

Headlines from Harvard history

Headlines from Harvard history

Faculty retirements, a HUCTW contract, and hospital aid to Harvard Med School

Waiting to hear about faculty retirements; a new HUCTW contract; and a cash infusion for the Medical School from its affiliated hospitals

Roundup of recent Harvard news

Canaday's solar roof, a rare giant flower, oil-spill commissioner, and more

Madeleine Schwartz, Sarah Zhang named Harvard Magazine Ledecky Fellows

Two sterling student writers join the magazine as Berta Greenwald Ledecky Undergraduate Fellows.