University News

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

Harvard Football: Harvard 41, Brown 7

The Crimson assertively avenge last year’s loss to their Ivy rival.

by Dick Friedman

Harvard fundraiser O’Neil A. S. Outar departs

A change in a senior Harvard fundraising role

by John S. Rosenberg

Televangelist Carlton Pearson donates personal archive to Harvard

Carlton Pearson, exiled from his church, donates years of preaching on tape to Harvard.

by Aidan Langston

Final clubs, conflicts of interest, improving writing, and more

Final-club sanctions, a new Corporation member, medical conflicts of interest, MIT capital campaign, and improving student writing

by John S. Rosenberg , Marina N. Bolotnikova , Aidan Langston

News briefs: late spring 2016

Slaves at Harvard, an early-childhood education initiative at HGSE, Air Force ROTC returns, climate change, the Extension School, and more

Super PACs and their effect on U.S. presidential politics

How super PACs actually shape U.S. presidential politics

by Idrees Kahloon

Harvard’s 365th Commencement

Harvard goes Hollywood for Commencement, with sunny scenery, but sober talk.

Harvard Commencement speakers Spielberg, Faust, more

Commencement oratory from Steven Spielberg, Drew Faust, and others

Harvard 365th Commencement highlights

A multitalented student, political zingers, a retiring Commencement directors, final-club ribbing, and more

Harvard business engineering schools in Allston

Amid an Allston building boom, the first new academic ties between Harvard Business School and the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences

by John S. Rosenberg

Harvard’s class scheduling for Allston campus

How to improve class scheduling—now, and when College classes cross the Charles River for the new engineering complex in Allston.

by John S. Rosenberg