University News

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

Harvard Football: Harvard 31, Columbia 14

The Crimson stay unbeaten with a workmanlike win over the Lions.

by Dick Friedman

Sarah Whiting Harvard Design School Briefing

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 Reviews Sexual Harassment Reporting

President Bacow commissions an external review in the wake of the Jorge Domínguez case.

by John S. Rosenberg

Harvard Reviews Athletics

Dean Claudine Gay focuses on student experience, sports culture, and strategic planning.

by John S. Rosenberg

Harvard President Bacow Morning Prayers Free Speech

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

Harvard College Debuts Gen Ed

The College’s required curriculum relaunches with dozens of new experiential, case-based courses.

by Nina Pasquini

Convocation 2019

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

Harvard Business Law, Schools Prepare Entering Students

Harvard professional schools help their incoming students thrive. 

by John S. Rosenberg