University News

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

How AI Is Reshaping Supply Chains

Harvard Kennedy School lecturer on using AI to strengthen supply chains

by Olivia Farrar

Convocation Welcomes Classes of 2024 and 2025 to Campus

President Bacow and Harvard College Dean Khurana welcome the Class of 2025 and, for the first time in-person, the Class of 2024.

by Lydialyle Gibson , Nancy Walecki

Highlighting Indigenous People’s “Connection to a Place”

The Harvard Alumni Association acknowledges links with Native people.

by Juliet Isselbacher

A Nearly Normal First-Year Move-In

Arriving students animate Harvard Yard

by Nancy Walecki

University Approves New Law School Shield

Moving beyond a symbol associated with slaveholding

by Jacob Sweet

Harvard Scientists’ Leadership in Fighting Infectious Diseases

Dan Barouch awarded $24.5 million for HIV research, Marc Lipsitch named to national center for public health forecasting

by Jonathan Shaw

The Art of the Dean

The Faculty of Arts and Sciences leader’s plans before and beyond the pandemic

by John S. Rosenberg

John Harvard Statue Undergoes Restoration

The well-loved statue gets spiffed up for the new school year 

by Nancy Walecki

edX Exit

Harvard and MIT sell to a for-profit company, and pursue their mission with a new model.

by John S. Rosenberg , Jonathan Shaw

Divinity School Launches New Degree Programs

The new Religion and Public Life initiative promotes "religious literacy" in the professions

by Nancy Walecki

Brevia

New personnel chief, Supreme Court appeal, Yale aims for zero greenhouse-gas emissions, and more