University News

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

Trump Says a Deal with Harvard Is Close

Administration squeezes Harvard finances, and a federal judge blasts deportation efforts as unconstitutional.

by Joanna M Weiss

Harvard Horizons honors

TED-type talks on topics ranging from lizards to “micro-activism,” from doctoral candidates likely to define the futures of their fields.

by Sophia Nguyen

Harvard College general education criticized

Sharply critical faculty review of the College’s flagship general-education curriculum

by John S. Rosenberg

Harvard alumni poem on campus climates

Harvard Alumni Association’s poet laureate on the campus climate in Cambridge—and Palo Alto.

Rick Lowe of Project Row Houses at Harvard Design School Class Day 2015

The founder of Houston’s Project Row Houses is a pioneer in social-practice art.

President of International Rescue Committee David Miliband at Harvard

The president of the International Rescue Committee will speak on May 27.

Actress Natalie Portman ’03 named Harvard Class Day speaker 2015

The actress will address the class of 2015 on May 27.

by Laura Levis

Edouard Kopp named curator of drawings at Harvard Art Museums

Will oversee the Art Museums’ pre-twentieth-century drawings.

Harvard names Thomas J. Hollister CFO

President Faust fills one of her senior vacancies.

by John S. Rosenberg

Harvard affiliates among the 2015 Pulitzer Prize list of winners and finalists

A Harvard faculty member and several alumni number among the finalists.

Harvard Art Museums installs “Triangle Constellation” by Carlos Amorales

A new sculpture, calibrated to help the Harvard Art Museums achieve balance

by Sophia Nguyen