University News

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

Harvard Football: Harvard 59, Stetson 7

In season opener, the Crimson dispatch the overmatched Hatters.

by Dick Friedman

The Work of Art

At a seminal conference, black creative intellectuals explore white supremacy, the arts, and justice. 

by Lydialyle Gibson

Apollo 11, Up Close and Personal

An exhibition in Houghton Library shows Apollo 11 in context, and at its most intimate.

by Jacob Sweet

Harvard College student summer public-service initiative

Harvard College’s down payment on universal student public service

by John S. Rosenberg

Divest Harvard Makes Case for Fossil Fuel Divestment

Students, faculty, and alumni urge the ditching of corporations linked to climate change. 

by Marina N. Bolotnikova

Sarah Whiting Named Dean of the Graduate School of Design

Currently dean of the Rice University School of Architecture, Whiting will assume her new post on July 1. 

by Jonathan Shaw

“Building on the Continuity”

A conference looks back at Harvard’s 1969 student strike. 

by Jean Martin , Marina N. Bolotnikova

Nieman Fellow Eliza Griswold Wins Pulitzer Prize

Her book Amity and Prosperity: One Family and the Fracturing of America is the choice in general nonfiction.  

by Jacob Sweet

Harvard summit on higher education and public good

A Harvard summit probes how to meld universities’ academic and external aspirations.

by John S. Rosenberg

Masha Gessen on the Stories We Tell About Migration

The Russian-American journalist challenges “moral defaults” about immigrants. 

by Marina N. Bolotnikova

Harvard’s Houghton Library to be renovated

A renovation to make Houghton Library “open to all”

by Jacob Sweet