University News

Breaking developments, leadership announcements, and policy changes from across Harvard’s schools and administration.

Five Questions with Willy Shih

A Harvard Business School professor unpacks the economics of semiconductors.

by Olivia Farrar

Soledad O’Brien Named Harvard College Class Day Speaker

The class of 2013 will hear a star of the twenty-fifth-reunion class.

Harvard College Class of 2017 Yield Reaches 82 Percent

Wait-listed applicants may be out of luck.

Harvard e-mail privacy policy review under way

Harvard group receives instructions from President Drew Faust.

Jeffrey Toobin is Class Day speaker at Harvard Law School

The author and television legal analyst will address the Law School class of 2013.

Harvard alumna Penny Pritzker nominated commerce secretary

The nation’s gain may be Harvard’s loss.

Harvard faculty national academy of sciences 2013

Eight professors honored

HarvardX and edX online learning update

Evolving perspectives on where and how edX and HarvardX courses work—and don't

Blavatnik $50 million gift Harvard life sciences boosts biomedical discoveries

Blavatnik Family Foundation’s $50-million gift aims to support development of early-stage Harvard research into human cures

Harvard's Corinne Wee shows support with Row for Boston T-shirts

Senior Corinne Wee’s T-shirts put unity on display at the Women's Crew Beanpot this past weekend.

Diabetes treatment discovery by Harvard scientists Douglas Melton and Peng Yi

Hormone found by Harvard's Melton and Yi has the potential to change the way type 2 diabetes is treated