University News
Breaking developments, leadership announcements, and policy changes from across Harvard’s schools and administration.
FAS Cuts Science Ph.D. Admissions By Half
Backing off plans for more drastic reductions, the division still faces a long-term deficit.
Harvard’s 2018 Commencement rites
A celebration of President Drew Faust, and wariness about the assault on “veritas”
President Drew Faust’s Harvard valedictory
President Faust’s Commencement afternoon valedictory address on hope and higher education
Crimmigration: Harvard Law students address immigrants’ legal challenges
Harvard Law students address immigrants’ legal challenges.
Harvard governing-board appointments
A business leader and a college president join the Corporation.
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.
Mass Hall Facelift
Presidents Faust, Bacow relocated as the renovations proceed
A celebration of Matthew Meselson
A symposium honors a scientist who championed biological and chemical weapons control.
Risk-Taking Lizards
How lizards’ behavior influences natural selection
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.
Cautious Optimism
A Radcliffe Day panel discusses America’s role in a rapidly changing world.
by Oset Babür