International

Reporting on Harvard’s global reach—from student fieldwork and faculty research to alumni impact around the world.

Harvard Plans Contingencies for International Students

Kennedy School, School of Public Health are developing online options

by Jonathan Shaw

Global Health at Home

Harvesting innovations from around the world to improve American medical care

by Howard Hiatt , Charles Kenney , Mark Rosenberg

China's Great Flood May Be No Myth

Researchers unearth geological evidence to support one of the country’s earliest folk legends.

by Lydialyle Gibson

Chinese Pottery: The First Five Millennia

An exhibition of prehistoric earthenware deepens understanding of early Chinese cultures and communities.

by John S. Rosenberg

Tools for Change

An alumna’s novel approach to helping Kenyan tweens

by Olivia Campbell

The Talk

Commencement oratory from Steven Spielberg, Drew Faust, and others

The Plant Prospectors

Collecting expeditions race the anthropocene extinction to sample wild botanical diversity.

by Jonathan Shaw

Harvard and Higher Education in Vietnam

President Obama’s visit and a developing nation’s new university

by John S. Rosenberg

Shirin Ebadi Shares Her Experience, and a Hug

The Iranian human-rights activist and Nobel laureate talks, and listens.

by Lydialyle Gibson

When Water Is Safer Than Land

Harvard human-rights expert Jacqueline Bhabha critiques the inadequate response to the world’s migration crises.

by Jacqueline Bhabha

Going Global, Gradually

Harvard’s new approach to international research

by John S. Rosenberg