University News
Breaking developments, leadership announcements, and policy changes from across Harvard’s schools and administration.
Harvard Retains Winthrop Name
Committee undecided on whether owning slaves merits denaming
by Max J. Krupnick
Apollo 17 Turns 50
Two Harvard alumni recall a return from the last human moonwalk.
by Lydialyle Gibson
Brevia
Presidential search, boat house rebuilding, giant telescope, M.B.A. aid, and more
Science Surges
Fostering businesses within enginnering and applied sciences, Amazon’s quantum support, and changing concentrations
The Off-Kilter Economy
Reckoning with inflation and its remedies
by Jonathan Shaw
Three Alumni Named as National Book Award Finalists
An historian, a poet, and a translator
by Lydialyle Gibson
Two Harvard Affiliates Share Chemistry Nobel
Recognized for advances in functional chemistry
by John S. Rosenberg
Justice Elena Kagan, in Dissent
Ebbing trust in the Supreme Court, and what to do about it
by Lincoln Caplan
Greenland’s Fingerprint in Rising Seas
Satellite data reveal the first unambiguous evidence linking a melting ice sheet to a predicted pattern of sea level rise.
by Jonathan Shaw
Finishing Kick
President Bacow’s agenda during his last fall term
Will Global Democracy Survive?
Scholars on the current rise of fascism, domestically and abroad
by Nancy Walecki