University News
Breaking developments, leadership announcements, and policy changes from across Harvard’s schools and administration.
Trump Administration Threatens Harvard’s Accreditation, Subpoenas Student Records
The federal government mounts pressure amid negotiations with Harvard.
by Nina Pasquini
Harvard to Launch Quantum Science and Engineering Ph.D. Program
Renovation of 60 Oxford Street will create a quantum hub where theorists and engineers work side by side.
by Jonathan Shaw
A Net-Zero-Energy Victorian Home Makes History
HBS alumna Betsy Harper develops the first net-zero-energy, Victorian “passive house” in the world.
by Kristina DeMichele
Kevin Young to Address 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.
by John S. Rosenberg
Harvard Pilots In-Person Teaching for the Fall Semester
Faculty of Arts and Sciences tests hybrid classrooms and other pandemic adaptations.
by John S. Rosenberg
HAA Honors Three Alumni for Service
Alumni Association announces Harvard Medalists.
by Nell Porter-Brown
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.
by Jonathan Shaw
Education, Reschooled
Harvard Graduate School of Education introduces core courses and a restructured professional curriculum.
by John S. Rosenberg
COOP Conversion
Renovation and consolidation at a Harvard Square institution
This Spring, Next Fall
The spring semester, coronavirus KO’s in-person Commencement, and fall prospects
by John S. Rosenberg
“Neither Comfort nor Cover”
A withering investigation of sexual harassment
by Lydialyle Gibson