University News
Breaking developments, leadership announcements, and policy changes from across Harvard’s schools and administration.
Harvard’s New Online Orientation Emphasizes Intellectual Paths
A summer course for first-years focuses on academic success, diverse viewpoints.
Renovated Harvard Art Museums to open November 16 2014
The new Renzo Piano-designed facility will open to the public on November 16, 2014.
Harvard professor Sophia Roosth examines how synthetic biology is remaking life
Historian of science Sophia Roosth on resurrecting extinct species.
Michael R. Bloomberg named 2014 Harvard Commencement speaker
The Business School alumnus counts education and combatting climate change among his passions.
Social medicine’s lessons for a first-year Harvard Medical School student
A medical student learns about SNAP and social medicine.
A tribute to Justin Kaplan
In tribute to an old friend
Physicists at Harvard's SEAS envision infared as a renewable energy source
Harvard physicists envision capturing energy from Earth’s emissions to outer space.
Electronic communications policy draft released by Harvard for comment
The task force recommends a University-wide, mission-focused policy.
Harvard-based Sawyer seminar discusses hearing through the body
Through cat telephones and electronic dance music, scholars discuss the physical basis of sound.
Kenneth C. Griffin gives Harvard $150 million, principally for financial aid
Kenneth C. Griffin ’89 jump-starts a major Harvard College campaign goal.
A Harvard faculty task force focuses on teaching spaces in Allston
A Harvard faculty task force focuses on new teaching spaces, and more.