University News
Breaking developments, leadership announcements, and policy changes from across Harvard’s schools and administration.
Harvard Agrees to $53 Million Settlement in Body Parts Theft Case
The University will compensate families of those whose remains were sold and establish a scholarship to honor anatomical donors.
Public Health’s Past and Future
Michelle Williams, a year into her role as Public Health School dean
Peers outperform Harvard endowment returns
More evidence that fiscal 2017 returns were “disappointing”
The State of the Harvard Final-Club Debate
Continuing, heated differences over single-gender social organizations
Harvard FAS debt deal and inequality initiative
The dean’s annual report provides financial details on House renewal, the faculty census, and a new inequality initiative.
Radcliffe Institute Dean Cohen Stepping Down
An advocate of common spaces and the arts moves on.
One Step Closer to a New Alma Mater
Twenty submissions have been selected as semifinalists to replace the final line in Harvard’s alma mater.
by Oset Babür
Harvard summit on academic inclusion
A Harvard conference on diversity and academic inclusion
Composer Ashley Fure unleashes her visceral opera “The Force of Things”
Composer Ashley Fure wants people to listen to noise.
First Draft from Presidential Task Force on Inclusion and Belonging
The task force shares a preliminary report.
by Oset Babür
2017 Radcliffe symposium on health care
A Radcliffe Institute symposium examines the recent policies—and politics—of the U.S. health system.