University News
Breaking developments, leadership announcements, and policy changes from across Harvard’s schools and administration.
Harvard Graduate Workers Begin Strike
In the second walkout in six months, union leaders call for better pay and benefits and a stronger grievance process.
Harvard Defends Race-Conscious Admissions at the Supreme Court
Should the law continue to reflect that the United States is anything but colorblind?
“We Urgently Must Do More”
Harvard introduces its Salata Institute for Climate and Sustainability.
Harvard Divinity Dean Hempton to Step Down
Plans to depart at end of academic year
Hansjörg Wyss Gives $350 Million to Bioengineering Institute
The philanthropist makes a fourth gift to support basic and translational research.
Harvard Reports $406-Million Surplus, but Endowment Declines
The annual financial and endowment reports show the mixed effects of recovery from the pandemic.
Three Harvardians Awarded 2022 MacArthur "Genius" Grants
A mathematician, a chemist, and a professor of medicine who studies the health effects of incarceration
Ben S. Bernanke ’75 Shares Economics Nobel
Three scholars honored for work on banking and financial crises.
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