University News

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

Sign of the Times: Harvard Quarterback Jaden Craig Will Play for TCU

Out of eligibility for the Crimson, the star entered the transfer portal.  

by Dick Friedman

University People

Edward C. Forst ’82 has been named Harvard’s first executive vice president, effective September 1.

Environmental Action

Harvard is already trying many green initiatives; it will need to do much more to meet its new greenhouse-gas emissions goal...

Harvard by the Numbers

As FAS dean Michael D. Smith illustrated with these figures, social sciences (economics, government, history, and so on) attract the largest number of College concentrators...

Harvard Tops U.S. News Rankings

As the Globe's Peter Schworm notes, in grandiose language, Harvard has finished second to Princeton for the last two years, but "today, order has been restored to the universe...

SEAS Interim Dean Appointed

Spaepen is Franklin professor of applied physics and director of the Rowland Institute at Harvard. He previously....

Passages: Julius Richmond, Founding Director of Head Start

Julius B. Richmond, MacArthur professor of health policy emeritus and a revered figure among scholars and politicians, died Sunday...

Frenk Appointed Dean of School of Public Health

President Drew Faust announced on July 29 the appointment of Julio Frenk as dean of the Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH)...

Faust Appoints VP for Government, Community, and Public Affairs

President Drew Faust appointed Christine Heenan, founder and president of Clarendon Group, a Providence, Rhode Island-based public and government relations firm...

University Vows to Cut Greenhouse Gases

Harvard aims to cut its greenhouse-gas emissions by 30 percent in the next eight years, President Drew Faust announced today...

Benefactor Katherine Loker Dies at 92

Katherine B. Loker, whose gifts to Harvard underwrote the renovation of the Widener Library main reading room and the transformation of the Memorial Hall basement, died June 26 at her home in Oceanside, California...