Graduate & Professional Schools

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

The School of Public Health, Facing a Financial Reckoning, Seizes the Chance to Reinvent Itself

Dean Andrea Baccarelli plans for a smaller, more impactful Chan School of 2030.

by Jonathan Shaw

Medical Makeover

A new master's program and expansion of the M.D./Ph.D. program are two among many changes to emerge from the Harvard Medical School (HMS) strategic-planning process...

The Liberal Art of Engineering

The 10-year tenure of Venkatesh Narayanamurti, dean of the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS), will end in September...

SEAS Interim Dean Appointed

Spaepen is Franklin professor of applied physics and director of the Rowland Institute at Harvard. He previously....

Frenk Appointed Dean of School of Public Health

President Drew Faust announced on July 29 the appointment of Julio Frenk as dean of the Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH)...

Public Health Horizons

When Barry Bloom looks around at the Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH), he sees an institution that is more internationally engaged, more generous to its students, and home to more prizewinning researchers than when he arrived 10 years ago.

Update: Harvard Law School Faculty Approves Open Access

In a unanimous vote, members of the Harvard Law School (HLS) faculty have approved making their scholarly articles available on line free of charge...

Update: Harvard Medical International Transfers to Partners

Harvard Medical International (HMI), an international medical-consulting arm of Harvard Medical School (HMS), officially changed hands this week...

Law School, Looming Larger

Photograph by Jim Harrison (View larger) Subsurface construction proceeds on Harvard Law School's northwest building, which extends along...

Gains for Graduate Students

Harvard’s new formula for undergraduate financial aid, unveiled on December 10, overshadowed its consequential changes in support for...

A Century of Commerce

Harvard Business School (HBS) is throwing a year-long centennial celebration. The anniversary itself falls on April 8, the date in 1908 when the...