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.
Visualizing the World at the Harvard Map Collection
Maps can be applied to straightforward ends; they can also be fanciful, surprising, or plain weird.
Lives Glimpsed through Passports
Houghton exhibit documents “the dream of a globalized world.”
A printer's archive and Nam June Paik's video art, at the Harvard Art Museums
Recent acquisitions at the Harvard Art Museums train a fresh lens on photography and video art.
Bacow Appoints Claudine Gay dean of FAS
President Bacow’s first major appointment
Graduate Student Union Considers Agenda
The HGSU-UAW prepares for fall negotiations.
Harvardians May Make Donald Trump’s Supreme Court Shortlist
Edward Mansfield, Robert Young are up for consideration.
Harvard President Bacow Welcome Message
A community letter as the new administration begins
Gender Studies Appoints Robert Reid-Pharr to Professorship
The CUNY scholar will become the first senior faculty hire for the program, which has added new members in recent years.
Breathing New Life into “The Eyesore on Church Street”
Offices, retail, and a brand new cinema are all in the cards for Church Street.
by Oset Babür
“This Entire Campus Belongs to You”
Harvard begins a program to acclimate freshmen from “historically marginalized communities.”