University News

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

Eat Your Potatoes Mashed, Boiled or Baked, but Hold the Fries

Baked, boiled, and mashed potatoes are better.

by Vivian W. Rong

Faculty Honors, and a Farewell

A changing of the guard, in Mass Hall and University Hall

by Jonathan Shaw

Radcliffe Parole Reform Panel Features Rapper

Rapper Meek Mill and three other formerly incarcerated panelists argue for parole reform.

by Max J. Krupnick

Mindfulness and Public Health

Monks and researchers gathered at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health to launch a new center for mindfulness.

by Max J. Krupnick

Finding the Descendants of Enslavement

An update on the Harvard Slavery Remembrance Program, an HBCU library partnership, and curricula for teaching difficult institutional history

by Lydialyle Gibson

Harvey Mansfield’s Last Class

After 60 years on the faculty, Harvard’s famous conservative is retiring.

by Lydialyle Gibson

Holocaust Remembrance Exhibit Comes to Harvard

“Hate Ends Now” brings replica Holocaust train car to Harvard

by Max J. Krupnick

The Eviction of the Bow & Arrow Press

The Adams House space that gave the letterpress studio its name will become a student common room.

by Craig Lambert

Harvard Medalists

Four people honored for extraordinary service to the University

by Nell Porter-Brown

Harvard Horizons Spotlights Nine Scholars

Emerging doctoral research on COVID-19, military model villages, children at risk, and more

by Max J. Krupnick

Larry Bacow’s Parting Push

Allston, higher-education outreach, and free speech make for a busy conclusion to the twenty-ninth president’s Mass Hall tenure.

by John S. Rosenberg