University News
Breaking developments, leadership announcements, and policy changes from across Harvard’s schools and administration.
Harvard’s Hiring Freeze Continues
University Leaders Say $1 Billion Per Year Is At Risk Due to Federal Actions
by Vivian W. Rong
Proposed NLRB Rule Would Revoke Graduate Students’ Union Rights
A changed playing field as graduate student union, Harvard negotiate
by Marina N. Bolotnikova
Dean Sarah Whiting Meets the Design School Community
A fireside chat with the architects, landscape architects, and urban planners
by John S. Rosenberg
Neural-Network Pioneer Yann LeCun on AI and Physics
The physics department confers its Loeb lectureship on an influential non-physicist.
by Drew Pendergrass
Lowell House Renovations: An Inside Look
Historic Lowell House’s renovations bring a mixture of old and new, painstakingly refurbished and constructed.
by Jacob Sweet
Harvard to Examine Sexual-Harassment Reporting and Response
President Bacow commissions an external review in the wake of the Jorge Domínguez case.
by John S. Rosenberg
Harvard Undertakes Review of Athletics
Dean Claudine Gay focuses on student experience, sports culture, and strategic planning.
by John S. Rosenberg
Reasoned Debate, Free Speech, and Service
President Bacow, at Morning Prayers, and deans, welcoming students, open the semester by addressing community values in a time of divisive discourse.
by John S. Rosenberg
A Revised Gen Ed Debuts
The College’s required curriculum relaunches with dozens of new experiential, case-based courses.
by Nina Pasquini
Advice for an Imperfect World
First-year Convocation for the class of 2023
by Nina Pasquini
There’s (Still) No Gay Gene
Genes seem to play a role in determining sexual orientation, but it’s small, uncertain, and complicated.
by Bennett McIntosh