University News
Breaking developments, leadership announcements, and policy changes from across Harvard’s schools and administration.
Getting to Mars (for Real)
Humans have been dreaming of living on the Red Planet for decades. Harvard researchers are on the case.
National Concerns about Policing Reverberate at Harvard
Police chief Riley to retire, and the University commissions an external review of the department.
by Matteo Wong
New Faculty Deans for Cabot, Eliot, Kirkland, Quincy and Winthrop Houses
Cabot, Eliot, Kirkland, Quincy and Winthrop Houses will have new leadership starting July 1
Harvard Scientists #Strike4BlackLives
Academia’s reckoning with anti-black racism
Searching for a COVID-19 vaccine
The when and how of vaccines
Harvard Will Guarantee Staff Pay and Benefits Past June 28
“[W]e will not be pursuing any furloughs or layoffs of our employees at this time,” executive vice president Katie Lapp wrote in an email.
Leadership changes, new sexual-misconduct rules, and more
Leadership changes, new sexual-misconduct rules, and more
Jeffrey Epstein’s Harvard ties detailed in official report
The general counsel’s report recommended—and prompted—action.
Harvard Overseer and HAA director elections
The official 2020 slates
New England summertime getaways
Getting away and outside safely this summer
Harvard Commencement 2020
Details of the virtual degree-conferral ceremonies