University News
Breaking developments, leadership announcements, and policy changes from across Harvard’s schools and administration.
Five Questions with Willy Shih
A Harvard Business School professor unpacks the economics of semiconductors.
The Harvard Corporation revises its operations and organization
The senior governing board revises its "composition, structure, and practices."
Year-end humor with a Harvard angle
Elena Kagan, Mark Zuckerberg, and Drew Faust's hard-charging, softball-playing daughter
Provost Steven Hyman to step down after a decade of service
The overseer of interdisciplinary scholarship and Harvard's affiliated institutions concludes a decade of service.
Harvard's libraries adopt new administrative structure
Management of the Harvard University Library will be consolidated under a single director.
Harvard University governance to change
For the senior governing board, an expanded membership, term limits, and a fresh focus on the University’s strategic opportunities and challenges
Condoleezza Rice urges keeping Africa on the U.S. foreign-policy agenda
The United States should support democratic governance and responsible sovereigns, the former secretary of state says in a speech at the Kennedy School.
Harvard-Yale football game results: Harvard wins 28-21
The football team wins its fourth straight over the Elis.
Faust calls for repeal of "don't ask, don't tell" and return of ROTC
President Faust says the program "ought to be fully and formally present" on campus, and voices hopes for an end to the "don't ask, don't tell" policy.
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Peter Marsden named dean for social sciences
The sociologist oversees a large Arts and Sciences division.