University News

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

people stand at a table that reads "Harvard College Dean of Students Office First-Year Orientation"

Harvard’s New Online Orientation Emphasizes Intellectual Paths

A summer course for first-years focuses on academic success, diverse viewpoints.

by Jonathan Shaw

Tony Horwitz

Radcliffe's Tony Horwitz travels the Keystone XL pipeline

The Pulitzer Prize-winning Radcliffe Institute Fellow reports on a road trip.

The men's and women's squash teams pose with their coaches—and their trophies.

Harvard squash teams win Ivy titles

Heading to nationals, men's and women's teams undefeated

HarvardX for Alumni to be launched in March

HarvardX for Alumni to be launched in March

Kenneth I. Chenault, J.D.’76, and Karen Gordon Mills, A.B. ’75, M.B.A. ’77, were elected as Harvard Corporation members. They will begin their service as Fellows of Harvard College on July 1.

Harvard Corporation elects Chenault, Mills

New members of senior governing board succeed Robert D. Reischauer and Robert E. Rubin.

James Engell

Harvard faculty discuss edX online activities

Harvard discusses obligations and academic freedom

Jay M. Harris, dean of undergraduate education

Faculty discusses Harvard College honor code

The faculty discusses College academic conduct.

Daniel Kahneman and Cass Sunstein

Nobel laureate Daniel Kahneman discusses life and work in behavioral economics

At Harvard, Nobel laureate Daniel Kahneman discusses decisionmaking with Walmsley University professor Cass Sunstein of Harvard Law School.

Harvard College applications flatten

After a period of strong growth, a plateau

Harvard and Northeastern in 2011 Beanpot action

Veterans of the first Beanpot hockey tournament socialize annually

Five men who played in the original Beanpot hockey tourney, or one of the first ones, meet each year before the annual fray.

Wynton Marsalis (on trumpet) and his band perform at Sanders Theatre.

Wynton Marsalis speaks at Harvard on the soul of jazz

The bandleader weaves performance and storytelling to paint a picture of jazz in nineteenth-century New Orleans.