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

A silhouette of a person stands before glowing domes in a red, rocky landscape at sunset.

Getting to Mars (for Real)

Humans have been dreaming of living on the Red Planet for decades. Harvard researchers are on the case.

by Olivia Farrar

Dan Shore and Christine Heenan

Harvard vice presidents depart, sexual assault, and more

Vice-presidential vacancies in finance and communications, sexual-assault legislation, grade inflation, and more

"Harvard Volunteers in World War I: One Hundred Years After" appears in tribute

Harvard’s World War I participants are honored in an updated volume edited by Douglass M. Carver ’59.

Light from the Calderwood Courtyard is ideal for the display of ancient sculpture, like this Roman work.

Harvard's Art Museums reopen in Renzo Piano building designed for teaching

Harvard’s Art Museums reopen, poised to fulfill their pedagogical purpose.

David Ellwood

Harvard Kennedy School Dean David Ellwood steps down

The Harvard Kennedy School’s leader will conclude his service at the end of the academic year.

The image shows human-stem-cell-derived beta cells that have formed islet-like clusters in a mouse. The cells were transplanted to the kidney capsule (the fibrous connective layer surrounding the kidneys); the photograph was taken two weeks later, by which time the beta cells were making insulin and had cured the diabetes in the mouse.

Harvard's Douglas Melton creates functional insulin-producing human beta cells

Douglas Melton creates working beta cells from stem cells for eventual use in treatment of Type 1 diabetes.

Research into medical marijuana and cognitive function

Novelist Patricia Cornwell donates $500,000 to McLean program studying the drug's effect on cognitive function.

Harvard Center for European Studies scholar writes new book on the Berlin Wall

A scholar at the Center for European Studies traces the unexpected causes of the opening of divided Berlin.

Peter Gomes

Harvard remembers Peter Gomes in Memorial Minute

The late Pusey minister in Memorial Church is memorialized by the Faculty of Arts and Sciences.

Grammy-winning vocal ensemble Roomful of Teeth performs at Dumbarton Oaks.

Dumbarton Oaks, Harvard's Washington, D.C., center, celebrates new spaces

Harvard’s Washington, D.C., humanities center enhances its community—and its intellectual reach

Cherry Murray

Harvard engineering dean Cherry Murray honored

The School of Engineering and Applied Sciences dean receives the National Medal of Technology and Innovation