Graduate & Professional Schools

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

Ronny Chieng is Harvard’s Class Day Speaker

The comedian, actor, and The Daily Show correspondent will address the 2026 College graduating class on May 27.

by Schuyler Velasco

Updates on Peter Brand, Roland Fryer, the graduate-student union, and more

A coach cashiered, a professor sanctioned, an Allston update, and more

New HGSE dean Bridget Terry Long takes stock a year in

New HGSE dean Bridget Terry Long seeks to “expand, double down, and deepen our impact.”

by John S. Rosenberg

Harvard Graduate School of Arts and Sciences 2019 Centennial Medalists

Contributions to society from graduate research

Harvard overhauls academic counseling, ends BSC

The College overhauls academic counseling.

by John S. Rosenberg

Juan Manuel Santos at Harvard

Former president of Colombia Juan Manuel Santos addresses Harvard Kennedy School graduates

by Nell Porter-Brown

Roberta Kaplan speaks at Harvard Law School Class Day

Roberta Kaplan at Harvard Law Class Day

by Nina Pasquini

A plea to address moral injury

A Kennedy School reunioner and Vietnam veteran stresses the need to address moral injury.

by Joseph Brett

Sarah Whiting Named Dean of the Graduate School of Design

Currently dean of the Rice University School of Architecture, Whiting will assume her new post on July 1. 

by Jonathan Shaw

Howard Gardner et al. on higher education in the twenty-first century

Howard Gardner and colleagues release a seven-year study of higher education in the twenty-first century.

by John S. Rosenberg

Justice Holmes, presented by Stephen Budiansky and Lincoln Caplan

A new biography of Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. illuminates the Supreme Court during the centennial of his most momentous dissent.

by Lincoln Caplan