University News

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

Five Questions with Peter R. Girguis

A Harvard professor of evolutionary biology on what lurks in the deep sea  

by Olivia Farrar

Portraying Larry Summers

Celebrating the twenty-seventh president—and assessing his legacy

by John S. Rosenberg

Apollo 17 Turns 50

Two Harvard alumni recall a return from the last human moonwalk.

by Lydialyle Gibson

Brevia

Presidential search, boat house rebuilding, giant telescope, M.B.A. aid, and more

Science Surges

Fostering businesses within enginnering and applied sciences, Amazon’s quantum support, and changing concentrations

The Off-Kilter Economy

Reckoning with inflation and its remedies

by Jonathan Shaw

2022 Aloian Scholarship Winners

Enriching life in the Houses

HAA Clubs and SIGs awards

Honoring the providers of exemplary service and exceptional programming

Reparations for Slavery?

Documenting the history and scope of federal “reparatory compensation.”

by Jonathan Shaw

Three Alumni Named as National Book Award Finalists

An historian, a poet, and a translator

by Lydialyle Gibson

Two Harvard Affiliates Share Chemistry Nobel

Recognized for advances in functional chemistry

by John S. Rosenberg