University News

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

Picketers holding signs march outside the Smith Campus Center, advocating for labor rights.

Harvard Graduate Student Workers Strike

Union demands higher pay, protections for non-citizen members, and changes to the harassment complaint process.

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Gary King

King, Kirschner Named University Professors

A social scientist and a systems biologist are honored for their research.

Fiftieth reunioners David Leipziger, Kitty Beer, and Howard Kristol, J.D. ’62.

"Thank You, Alumni"

Reunioners and seniors of 2009 give the University a welcome assist.

Giving a spell-out for <a href="http://harvardmagazine.com/commencement/2009-speeches">Graduate English orator Joseph Claghorn</a> were fellow landscape-architecture students Vanessa Lindley Palmer (J; the ringleader), Katie Jean Powell (O), Sisi Sun (S), Joonhyun Kim (E), Simon Mark Bussiere (P), and Adrienne Re Heflich (H). Design School students still play with blocks.

A Worldly Week

Commencement celebrants and celebrations faced up to real world problems.

"If You Love Rats"

The Harvard Medical School Class Day address

"Resizing," before "Reshaping"

The Faculty of Arts and Sciences tackles a massive budget crisis.

University People

Honors, arrivals, and departures

Printed Catalogs: R.I.P.

A Harvard fixture bites the dust.

Brevia

Short takes on recent news

Students and workers protested layoffs on June 25, in a march that began in Harvard Yard and proceeded to Holyoke Center.

Harvard Layoffs Update (June 30, 2009)

School-specific news on layoffs; FAS cost-cutting working groups; and the endowment's forward commitments

Union members from AFSCME protest potential layoffs at Harvard on Commencement day.

Layoffs Begin

The University has begun laying off employees, part of its efforts to reduce costs to cope with the projected 30 percent decline in the value of the endowment.