University News
Plans for a Faculty Senate Move Forward
And annual awards for excellence in teaching, advising, mentoring, and scholarship
by Jonathan Shaw
Harvard’s Ties to Slavery
A long-awaited, unsparing picture
by Lydialyle Gibson
Harvard Alumni Day Debuts
New event draws alumni back to campus, in-person and virtually.
by Jacob Sweet , Nancy Walecki
A Multiverse of Might-Have-Beens
A 2021 graduate returns to campus for a belated Commencement that feels more like a reunion.
by Meena Venkataramanan
“People Were Making Bricks Out of Straw”
Radcliffe Medalist Sherrilyn Ifill on the challenges of racism and the potential for progress
by Lydialyle Gibson
"Wade in the Water"
Public health leader Joia Mukherjee addresses Harvard Medical and Dental Graduates at Class Day.
by Nancy Walecki
The “Toxicity of Low Expectations”
Radcliffe Class Day panelists on higher education's responsibility to boost economic mobility
by Nancy Walecki
Somethings Old, Somethings New
Familiar preliminaries, but with many post-pandemic wrinkles for Harvard’s 371st Commencement, in-person again
by John S. Rosenberg , Jacob Sweet
New Harvard Overseers and HAA Directors
Election results announced
by Nell Porter-Brown
Harvard Confers Seven Honorary Degrees
Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern, Gloria Steinem, William Julius Wilson among those recognized—plus a world food humanitarian engaged in Ukraine
by John S. Rosenberg
Maia Sandu at Kennedy School Class Day
A battler against corruption in a small, threatened nation
by Lydialyle Gibson