University News

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

Crowd of picketers holding signs advocating for fair pay on a sunny day.

Cancellations, Disruptions as Harvard Graduate Student Strike Enters Second Week

Some faculty complain about the protests’ effect on students.

by Lydialyle Gibson , Joanna M Weiss

Ben S. Bernanke

Ben S. Bernanke ’75 Shares Economics Nobel

Three scholars honored for work on banking and financial crises.

by John S. Rosenberg

Official portrait of Lawrence H. Summers

Portraying Larry Summers

Celebrating the twenty-seventh president—and assessing his legacy

by John S. Rosenberg

A man in a wetsuit helps an astronaut out of an Apollo capsule floating in the ocean

Apollo 17 Turns 50

Two Harvard alumni recall a return from the last human moonwalk.

by Lydialyle Gibson

Archon Fung and Meredith Weenick, chairs of faculty and staff advisory committees for Harvard presidential search

Brevia

Presidential search, boat house rebuilding, giant telescope, M.B.A. aid, and more

Mark Zuckerberg and Priscilla Chan at Kempner Institute debut

Science Surges

Fostering businesses within enginnering and applied sciences, Amazon’s quantum support, and changing concentrations

The Off-Kilter Economy

Reckoning with inflation and its remedies

by Jonathan Shaw

2022 Aloian Scholarship Winners

Enriching life in the Houses

HAA Clubs and SIGs awards

Honoring the providers of exemplary service and exceptional programming

Image of Uncle Sam walking away with ladders, leaving a brown hand grasping from a hole in the ground

Reparations for Slavery?

Documenting the history and scope of federal “reparatory compensation.”

by Jonathan Shaw

Illustration of a man sleeping as an alter ego surrounded by sheep practices his golf swing

How the Brain Replays Actions During Sleep

Experiments using a neuroprosthetic reveal nocturnal motor neuron learning.

by Erin O’Donnell