University News
Breaking developments, leadership announcements, and policy changes from across Harvard’s schools and administration.
Harvard Graduate Students Union Begins Strike Authorization Vote
Amid contract negotations, two unions are discussing a joint walkout this fall.
Focusing on the Ph.D.
During her tenure as dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences (GSAS), from mid 2005 through last December, Theda Skocpol says, “I...
Brevia
Endowment Manager EarningsHarvard Management Company’s (HMC) annual disclosure of the salary, bonus, and benefit payments to its president...
GSAS Alumni Day
On April 5, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences alumni and their guests are invited to a day-long celebration featuring afternoon symposiums on...
Law School, Looming Larger
Photograph by Jim Harrison (View larger) Subsurface construction proceeds on Harvard Law School's northwest building, which extends along...
Boosting College Financial Aid
Harvard’s new undergraduate financial-aid policies, affecting even students from high-income families, were announced on December...
Raising the Ante
In the wake of Harvard’s December announcement, a host of other institutions—Haverford, Penn, Pomona, and Swarthmore among...
Gains for Graduate Students
Harvard’s new formula for undergraduate financial aid, unveiled on December 10, overshadowed its consequential changes in support for...
Engineering Dean to Step Down
Narayanamurti, the Armstrong professor of engineering and applied sciences, cited a desire to return to teaching and research. He had...
At Harvard Medical International, Changes Afoot
Since its inception, it has developed more than 50 programs, in more than 30 countries across five continents. The website lists more than two dozen projects currently under way...
Farewell to Folkman
Since the Boston Globe's White Coat Notes health blog reported the news, Folkman's colleagues, patients, and friends—more than 100 people in all—have posted comments, sharing their remembrances in a moving tribute to the physician-researcher...