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.
Harvard President Bacow on University in Contentious Times
President Bacow on the challenges to higher education in a polarized era
Houghton unveils TS Eliot letter about his muse Emily Hale
A bombshell letter from modernist poet T.S. Eliot, 50 years after his death
Harvard Professor Accused of Misleading Government Investigators
Friedman University Professor charged with lying about research ties to China
A Gut Renovation for U.S. Labor Law
A Harvard Law School initiative calls for rewriting labor law “to shift power from corporations to workers.”
Negatively Curved Crystals
A Harvard mathematician’s “interwoven tapestries” help make the infinite visible.
Human impact on New England ecology was minimal before Europeans arrived
Before Europeans arrived in New England, local ecology was driven by climate shifts, not by human interventions.
Harvard Overseer election and divestment
The spring-semester agenda on climate-change advocacy takes shape—on campus and beyond.
Astronomers name interstellar “ripple” the “Radcliffe Wave”
The massive “Radcliffe Wave” traces a new map of the sky.
While You Were Away
End-of-semester news and fun from around campus
Harvard Allston Commercial Developer Chosen
The Allston Land Company designates Tishman Speyer to develop the “enterprise research campus” on Western Avenue, with detailed plans yet to come.