University News
Breaking developments, leadership announcements, and policy changes from across Harvard’s schools and administration.
Harvard’s New Online Orientation Emphasizes Intellectual Paths
A summer course for first-years focuses on academic success, diverse viewpoints.
Eighth Annual HILT Conference Focuses on Peer Learning
The eighth annual conference of the Harvard Initiative for Learning and Teaching
Harvard Endowment Increases 4.3 Percent to $40.9 Billion
In a year of tepid returns for universities, Harvard Management Company reports 6.5 percent gain on investments.
Is Climate Change Ruining Fall?
Fewer cold nights could mean muted displays of fall color.
Harvard's Jerry X. Mitrovica Awarded MacArthur grant
The geophysicist has pioneered the understanding that sea-level rise around the globe will vary significantly depending on crustal dynamics and gravitational forces.
The ArtLab Debuts
The ArtLab debuts.
Proposed NLRB Rule Would Revoke Graduate Students’ Union Rights
A changed playing field as graduate student union, Harvard negotiate
Sarah Whiting Harvard Design School Briefing
A fireside chat with the architects, landscape architects, and urban planners
Neural-Network Pioneer Yann LeCun on AI and Physics
The physics department confers its Loeb lectureship on an influential non-physicist.
Lowell House Renovations: An Inside Look
Historic Lowell House’s renovations bring a mixture of old and new, painstakingly refurbished and constructed.
by Jacob Sweet
Harvard Reviews Sexual Harassment Reporting
President Bacow commissions an external review in the wake of the Jorge Domínguez case.