University News

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

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Harvard Holds a Symposium on Antisemitism and Universities

Scholars discuss the paradoxes and challenges that Jews navigate on college campuses.

by Lydialyle Gibson

Promoting diversity in the field of architecture

A summer program at the Graduate School of Design aims to attract more minority students to architecture.

by Melanie E. Long

Gary King

King, Kirschner Named University Professors

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

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

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.

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