University News
Breaking developments, leadership announcements, and policy changes from across Harvard’s schools and administration.
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.
A Net-Zero-Energy Victorian Home Makes History
HBS alumna Betsy Harper develops the first net-zero-energy, Victorian “passive house” in the world.
Kevin Young Addresses Harvard Alumni Association
The acclaimed poet and director of the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture will speak at the annual meeting on June 4—and other graduation-week speakers are announced.
Harvard pilots in-person teaching for fall
Faculty of Arts and Sciences tests hybrid classrooms and other pandemic adaptations.
Harvard Alumni Medalists Announced
Alumni Association announces Harvard Medalists.
Rapid Tests, in Time for Fall Surge
Rapid COVID-19 tests, of the kind that Michael Mina has been advocating since last year, are finally approved for home use.
Harvard and sexual harassment: an apology for the past; new steps to end it now
A withering investigation of sexual harassment
Harvard reports on “net-zero” investment process
Harvard Management Company issues its first “Climate Report,” and an update on divestment advocacy, and other institutions’ progress
Allston expansion, admissions litigation, center for cities
Bigger Allston ambitions, an admissions-lawsuit appeal, and a new center for cities
Less construction ahead, quantum science and engineering, and more
Less construction in prospect, quantum science and engineering, and more
Harvard’s new education master’s program
Harvard Graduate School of Education introduces core courses and a restructured professional curriculum.