University News
Breaking developments, leadership announcements, and policy changes from across Harvard’s schools and administration.
Getting to Mars (for Real)
Humans have been dreaming of living on the Red Planet for decades. Harvard researchers are on the case.
Harvard spring 2016 news briefs
Shirley Tilghman on the Corporation, Jane Yellen at Radcliffe, encouraging entrepreneurs, aiming at endowments, and more
Harvard Spring 2016 news briefs
An Overseers' challenge slate, reengineering admissions, and General Education revised
Harvard confronts the challenges of inclusion
The Harvard community confronts the challenges of inclusion.
Harvard Kennedy School campus construction
Building capacity, literally, at the public-policy campus
Michelle Williams appointed Harvard public health dean
A faculty member and alumna becomes a leader in Longwood.
Graduate School Doubles Paid Time Off for Student Parents
The annnouncement comes amid a movement to form a graduate student labor union.
Lowell House Renewal to Last Two Years
Lowell residents will live in swing housing from the fall of 2017 through the spring of 2019.
Harvard Graduate Students Move to Unionize
Graduate students seek to form a labor union.
Frank Gehry to Receive Harvard Arts Medal
Gehry is the first architect to earn the distinction.
An Overseers’ Challenge?
Petitioners pursuing election to Harvard’s board seek to change admissions and tuition policies.