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

John Harvard statue beneath a large American flag outside of University Hall

Trump Administration Appeals Order Restoring $2.7 Billion in Funding to Harvard

The appeal, which had been expected, came two days before the deadline to file.

by Jonathan Shaw

Detainees sleep in a holding cell at a U.S. Customs and Border Protection processing facility on Wednesday, June 18, 2014, in Brownsville, Texas. The CPB provided media tours that day of two locations in Brownsville and Nogales, Arizona, that have been central to processing the more than 47,000 unaccompanied children who have entered the country illegally since last October 1.

A Harvard human-rights expert on Central American child immigrants

A human-rights expert on Central American child immigrants

by Jacqueline Bhabha

Scenes of Harvard Yard on a mid-July morning

An undergraduate's summer at 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.

Dunster Demolition

An update on the first renovation of an entire Harvard House

by Francesca Annic...

President Drew Faust addresses the 14 veterans who participated in the Warrior-Scholar Project at Harvard. The week-long pilot program, which involved democracy-themed seminars as well as reading and writing workshops, ran from July 6 to July 12.

Academic Boot Camp at Harvard for Warrior-Scholars

The Warrior-Scholar Project runs its first program at Harvard.

by Francesca Annic...

A new permanent exhibit at the Harvard Museum of Natural History showcases more than 50 glass models of marine invertebrates from the collections of the Museum of Comparative Zoology—models crafted by Leopold and Rudolf Blaschka, creators of the famous Glass Flowers. This model is <i>Tubularia indivisa</i>, or oaten pipes hydroid. (MCZ SC119)

The Harvard Museum of Natural History showcases Blaschka glass invertebrates

The Harvard Museum of Natural History showcases Blaschka glass invertebrates.

Mia Karvonides

Harvard University releases a new sexual assault policy and procedures

A central University team will initiate investigations of cases.

Robert Gardner in his Cambridge home, October 2013

Filmmaker Robert Gardner Dies at 88

The anthropological filmmaker founded the Harvard Film Study Center.

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

Harvard student Ben Sobel on his semester off

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.

Harvard students spend summer on arts and humanities research projects

Harvard undergraduates delve deep into summer humanistic research.

by Francesca Annic...

The Fulbright Economics Teaching Program’s nameplate at its campus in Ho Chi Minh City

Harvard-affiliated Fulbright university vietnam in Ho Chi Minh City

Harvard-affiliated Fulbright University approved by prime minister