University News

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

How AI Is Reshaping Supply Chains

Harvard Kennedy School lecturer on using AI to strengthen supply chains

by Olivia Farrar

Appealing area restaurants for Harvard's Commencement and reunion week

Celebrating the graduates and their families, without the throng

by Nell Porter-Brown

Commencement week calendar

Commencement week calendar

Harvard climate change, divestment, honor code, and more

Climate change, divestment, the honor code, Olympics, fundraising, MOOCs, and more

Deval Patrick at Harvard Commencement, Harvard admissions, and more

Deval Patrick at Commencement, College admissions—and $60,000 term bills, public-affairs VP, and more University news

Divest Harvard Protesters Blockade President Faust's Massachusetts Hall Office

Invoking history, activists call weeklong event the “lunch-counter moment for the twenty-first century.”

by Stephanie Garlock

Talking with Tracy K. Smith, author of "Ordinary Light"

The poet discusses her newest book, the memoir Ordinary Light.

by Sophia Nguyen

Peabody museum curators discuss archaeology of Harvard Yard project

Archaeologists examine printing type found deep in Harvard Yard.

by Stephanie Garlock

Atticus Lish wins PEN/Faulkner for debut novel “Preparation for the Next Life”

He is honored for his debut novel, Preparation for the Next Life.

Harvard MOOC online learning lessons from edX

Harvard and MIT researchers mine masses of data about online learning—and begin to address applications to campus classrooms.

by John S. Rosenberg