University News
Breaking developments, leadership announcements, and policy changes from across Harvard’s schools and administration.
Sarah Whiting Harvard Design School Briefing
A fireside chat with the architects, landscape architects, and urban planners
Neural-Network Pioneer Yann LeCun on AI and Physics
The physics department confers its Loeb lectureship on an influential non-physicist.
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.
Harvard Reviews Athletics
Dean Claudine Gay focuses on student experience, sports culture, and strategic planning.
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.
Harvard College Debuts Gen Ed
The College’s required curriculum relaunches with dozens of new experiential, case-based courses.
Convocation 2019
First-year Convocation for the class of 2023
There’s (Still) No Gay Gene
Genes seem to play a role in determining sexual orientation, but it’s small, uncertain, and complicated.
Harvard Business Law, Schools Prepare Entering Students
Harvard professional schools help their incoming students thrive.