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.

by Olivia Farrar

The Off-Kilter Economy

Reckoning with inflation and its remedies

by Jonathan Shaw

2022 Aloian Scholarship Winners

Enriching life in the Houses

HAA Clubs and SIGs awards

Honoring the providers of exemplary service and exceptional programming

Reparations for Slavery?

Documenting the history and scope of federal “reparatory compensation.”

by Jonathan Shaw

Three Alumni Named as National Book Award Finalists

An historian, a poet, and a translator

by Lydialyle Gibson

Two Harvard Affiliates Share Chemistry Nobel

Recognized for advances in functional chemistry

by John S. Rosenberg

Justice Elena Kagan, in Dissent

Ebbing trust in the Supreme Court, and what to do about it  

by Lincoln Caplan

Greenland’s Fingerprint in Rising Seas

Satellite data reveal the first unambiguous evidence linking a melting ice sheet to a predicted pattern of sea level rise.

by Jonathan Shaw

Finishing Kick

President Bacow’s agenda during his last fall term

Will Global Democracy Survive?

Scholars on the current rise of fascism, domestically and abroad

by Nancy Walecki