University News
Breaking developments, leadership announcements, and policy changes from across Harvard’s schools and administration.
Jerome Powell Talks Risk, Resilience, and AI at Harvard
The Fed Chairman laid out the U.S. central bank’s approach to global conflict and an unpredictable future.
Harvard Presidential Search Advances
Faculty and staff advisory committees unveiled
The First-Generation Gap
Advocating support for first-generation Harvard students
by Alisha Ukani
Harvard building boom
A campus construction program of unprecedented proportions
Recruiting economic diversity
The College admissions office shares strategies.
by Alisha Ukani
The polar vortex produced rapid evolution in lizards
How the polar vortex produced rapid evolution in lizards
Harvard’s zero-emissions green building
The Center for Green Buildings and Cities renovates its headquarters to consume almost zero energy.
by Alisha Ukani
Derek Bok on reforming higher ed
Derek Bok and other scholars weigh in on improving universities and colleges—and why that’s hard to do.
Harvard Social Club Ban?
A Harvard committee proposes eliminating unsanctioned student social organizations.
Business school-engineering joint tech degree
Harvard’s business and engineering faculties join forces on a new technology-design degree—before they co-locate in Allston.
New University Press director, new University Professor, and more
New University Press director, new University Professor, changing Harvard Square, and more