University News

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

Free Speech, the Bomb—and Donald Trump

A Harvard cardiologist on the unlikely alliances that shaped a global movement to prevent nuclear war

Quantum SCIENCE Quarters

 New home for the quantum science and engineering doctoral program.

Defeat by Truth Is Victory

President Lawrence S. Bacow’s fall Morning Prayers address at Memorial Church

by Jonathan Shaw

“Anyone Can Be an Activist”

Alumni get involved in politics.

by Isabel Mehta

Seeking the First Speakers of Indo-European Language

Ancient DNA sheds new light on the origins of a lingua franca.

by Jonathan Shaw

Harvard Presidential Search Committees Named

Faculty and staff advisory committees appointed; students to follow

by John S. Rosenberg

Re-Wilding Harvard

Bringing native plant species back to campus.

by Kristina DeMichele

Harvard Business School Expands Financial Aid

Ten percent of MBA students to receive full tuition scholarships

by Lydialyle Gibson

President Bacow Plans to Step Down

A post-pandemic transition, an early assessment, and the search for Harvard’s new leader

by John S. Rosenberg

Victor Clay

The new police chief introduces a new policing culture.

by Jonathan Shaw

Brevia

Ethnicity appointments, Radcliffe roster, faculty honorands, and more