Graduate & Professional Schools

Updates and features from Harvard’s graduate schools, including Law, Business, Medicine, and others.

Chan School of Public Health Department Chair Departs for UCLA

Kari Nadeau, an environmental health leader, will serve as the dean of the Fielding School of Public Health.

by Jonathan Shaw

Radcliffe Institute Announces 2020-2021 Fellows

During the pandemic, a virtual fellowship year looms.  

by Kristina DeMichele

Harvard Law Offers Zero-L Free Nationwide

An online orientation encourages enrollment at an anxious moment for students—and universities.

by John S. Rosenberg

At Home with Harvard: Great Legal Minds

Our favorite stories on the legal minds reshaping American law

COVID-19 and the Graduate Student Union

“When times are tough, there comes to be this real question of who is forced to bear the cost.”  

by Marina N. Bolotnikova

Could the reproduction number of SARS-CoV-2 be double early estimates?

A critical scientific question that bears on policies for fighting the pandemic

by Jonathan Shaw

William Giannobile Named Dean of Harvard School of Dental Medicine

The periodontology expert will assume his new role September 1. 

Harvard Schools Pandemic Pressures

Deans articulate their diverse faculties’ divergent priorities (and problems)—plus an MIT perspective

by John S. Rosenberg

Harvard Engineering Allston Move Deferred

As the pandemic halts construction, the move-in schedule for the fall semester has slipped.

by John S. Rosenberg

Rebecca Henderson, “Reimagining Capitalism” to save the planet

The Business School’s Rebecca Henderson reimagines capitalism to save the planet.

Ways to cope with the federal debt

The politics, policymaking, and public consequences of mounting government debt—and how to cope with it

by Karen Dynan , Douglas Elmendorf