University News
Breaking developments, leadership announcements, and policy changes from across Harvard’s schools and administration.
Uncertainty Looms Over Planned FAS Changes
At informational town hall meetings, faculty and staff press administrators for details.
Giang Nguyen
The HUHS executive director’s public health background prepared him well for the pandemic.
Portraying Larry Summers
Celebrating the twenty-seventh president—and assessing his legacy
Apollo 17 Turns 50
Two Harvard alumni recall a return from the last human moonwalk.
Brevia
Presidential search, boat house rebuilding, giant telescope, M.B.A. aid, and more
Science Surges
Fostering businesses within enginnering and applied sciences, Amazon’s quantum support, and changing concentrations
Three Alumni Named as National Book Award Finalists
An historian, a poet, and a translator
Two Harvard Affiliates Share Chemistry Nobel
Recognized for advances in functional chemistry
Justice Elena Kagan, in Dissent
Ebbing trust in the Supreme Court, and what to do about it
Greenland’s Fingerprint in Rising Seas
Satellite data reveal the first unambiguous evidence linking a melting ice sheet to a predicted pattern of sea level rise.
Finishing Kick
President Bacow’s agenda during his last fall term