University News

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

HAA Announces Overseers and Directors Slate for 2026

Alumni will vote this spring for members of two key governing boards

by Nell Porter Brown

Raising the Ante

In the wake of Harvard’s December announcement, a host of other institutions—Haverford, Penn, Pomona, and Swarthmore among...

Gains for Graduate Students

Harvard’s new formula for undergraduate financial aid, unveiled on December 10, overshadowed its consequential changes in support for...

A Century of Commerce

Harvard Business School (HBS) is throwing a year-long centennial celebration. The anniversary itself falls on April 8, the date in 1908 when the...

Doctoral Director

Allan M. Brandt became dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences (GSAS), within the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS), on January 1. A...

Focusing on the Ph.D.

During her tenure as dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences (GSAS), from mid 2005 through last December, Theda Skocpol says, “I...

Brevia

Endowment Manager EarningsHarvard Management Company’s (HMC) annual disclosure of the salary, bonus, and benefit payments to its president...

GSAS Alumni Day

On April 5, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences alumni and their guests are invited to a day-long celebration featuring afternoon symposiums on...

Engineering Dean to Step Down

Narayanamurti, the Armstrong professor of engineering and applied sciences, cited a desire to return to teaching and research. He had...

At Harvard Medical International, Changes Afoot

Since its inception, it has developed more than 50 programs, in more than 30 countries across five continents. The website lists more than two dozen projects currently under way...

Farewell to Folkman

Since the Boston Globe's White Coat Notes health blog reported the news, Folkman's colleagues, patients, and friends—more than 100 people in all—have posted comments, sharing their remembrances in a moving tribute to the physician-researcher...