University News

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

Harvard Football: Harvard 59, Stetson 7

In season opener, the Crimson dispatch the overmatched Hatters.

by Dick Friedman

New deans, graduate student union, faculty diversity, and a final-club update

Two new deans, a graduate-student union, modest gains in faculty diversity, and a final-club update

by Marina N. Bolotnikova

Brevia

Mass Hall makeover, Adams House renewal on deck, quantitative biology, and more

Harvard president Drew Faust in perspective

Drew Faust’s presidency in perspective

by John S. Rosenberg

New Harvard Overseers and HAA Elected Directors 2018

The annual election results

Heritage Museums & Gardens, in Sandwich, Massachusetts

Cape Cod’s Heritage Museums & Gardens

by Nell Porter-Brown

Underground: The Story of Harvard’s Class of 1968

A senior thesis, and a new film, on the “historic generational shift” of which the class of 1968 was a part.

by Lydialyle Gibson

Mass Hall Facelift

Presidents Faust, Bacow relocated as the renovations proceed

by Brandon J. Dixon

A celebration of Matthew Meselson

A symposium honors a scientist who championed biological and chemical weapons control.

by Jonathan Shaw

Risk-Taking Lizards

How lizards’ behavior influences natural selection

by Marina N. Bolotnikova

Hillary Clinton Receives Radcliffe Medal

The 2016 presidential candidate discusses her time at Wellesley, the crisis in American government, and the importance of raising empathetic children. 

by Marina N. Bolotnikova