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

group of students perform on a stage in front of a crowd

University People | July-August 2025

Stand-Up to Simmer Down

In comedy groups, students find ways to be absurd, present, and a little less self-conscious.

by Nina Pasquini

Hampden Hall, at 8 Plympton Street, is one of the Harvard-owned buildings in the Square sheltering Dunster House residents this year.

Harvard College |

Dunster Diaspora

The Dunster House community adjusts to relocation.

by Francesca Annic...

Undergraduate Council vice president Sietse Goffard ’15 (at left) and president Gus Mayopoulos ’15 present the freshmen with their class banner.

University News |

Astonish Us, Class of 2018

Applause and advice at Harvard’s Freshman Convocation

President Drew Faust speaks at morning prayers in Appleton Chapel on the first day of classes.

University News |

The Diverse “Symphony of Harvard”

Harvard president Drew Faust welcomes the new school year at morning prayers.

Scenes of Harvard Yard on a mid-July morning

Commentary |

Homing In on Harvard

Thoughts on a summer in Cambridge

by Francesca Annic...

View of Dunster House, the first residence for upperclassmen to undergo full renewal, from Memorial Drive. Seven weeks after the reconstruction project began, Dunster is almost completely scaffolded, and its iron gate has been removed.

Harvard College |

Dunster Demolition

An update on the first renovation of an entire Harvard House

by Francesca Annic...

Mia Karvonides

University News |

New, Harvard-wide Sexual Assault Policy Released

A central University team will initiate investigations of cases.

The author climbed this tree in Cyprus’s Troodos Mountains, en route to Lagoudera.

Students |

On Doing Nothing

Overcoming the Harvard zeal to be “productive”

by Ben Sobel

Brianna Macgregor '16 and Ozdemir Vayisoglu '16, both fellows at the Summer Humanities and Arts Research Program, digitally access information about an object at the Peabody Essex Museum (PEM) in Salem, Massachusetts, during a workshop on cultural interpretation.

Students |

The Humanities Village People

Harvard undergraduates delve deep into summer humanistic research.

by Francesca Annic...

Global Health Equity Option Scholar Hanna Amanuel '16 (center) with a local family in Sierra Madre de Chiapas, Mexico. Amanuel spent this spring semester working with Compañeros En Salud México, Partners in Health's sister organization in Chiapas, as part of a new study-abroad program.

University News |

Global-Health Learning in Rural Mexico

Harvard Global Health Institute introduces a unique study-abroad opportunity, melding coursework with field experience.

by Francesca Annic...

A rendering of the Ruth Mulan Chu Chao Center

John Harvard's Journal | July-August 2014

Brevia

Harvard Business School’s Chao Center, College admissions, endowment managers’ compensation, and more