University News

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

From Jellyfish to Digital Hearts

How Harvard researchers are helping to build a virtual model of the human heart

by Olivia Farrar

Director Agnès Varda visits Harvard for the Norton Lectures on Cinema

Agnès Varda delivered the second installment of this year’s Norton Lectures on Cinema.

by Sophia Nguyen

Jorge Domínguez to retire

The announcement comes one week after The Chronicle of Higher Education reported that 10 women accused Domínguez of sexual harassment. 

by Marina N. Bolotnikova

Enforcing Social-Club Sanctions Won’t Require Oaths

Harvard College spells out how its new policy will be enforced.

by Marina N. Bolotnikova

Harvard Commencement speaker John Lewis

A civil-rights leader returns to campus.  

by John S. Rosenberg

Salvadoran Workers Speak Out on TPS

Dozens of Harvard workers will be affected by the Trump administration’s policy changes.

by Marina N. Bolotnikova

Looking Back at the Lampoon’s Heyday

A new biopic, scripted by John Aboud ’95 and Michael Colton ’97, follows how Doug Kenney ’68 franchised fun, died young, and became a comedy legend.

by Sophia Nguyen

Remembering Towering Physicist Julian Schwinger (1918-1994)

At Jefferson Laboratory, Nobel Prize winners gather to remember one of their own.

by Jonathan Shaw

Harvard Names Lawrence S. Bacow Twenty-Ninth President

The former Tufts president and MIT chancellor emeritus will succeed Drew Faust on July 1.

by John S. Rosenberg

At Harvard, "Inventur" delves into a forgotten period of German art

Taking stock of an overlooked cohort of artists: those who, during World War II, stayed in Germany—and survived

by Sophia Nguyen

Allston development, advanced standing, Medical School monies

Allston development, advanced standing, Medical School monies

by John S. Rosenberg