University News
Breaking developments, leadership announcements, and policy changes from across Harvard’s schools and administration.
Dingman Named Harvard’s Interim Dean of Freshmen
The longtime administrator, who retired from the post in 2018, returns as the College reorganizes.
A Gut Renovation for U.S. Labor Law
A Harvard Law School initiative calls for rewriting labor law “to shift power from corporations to workers.”
Negatively Curved Crystals
A Harvard mathematician’s “interwoven tapestries” help make the infinite visible.
Human impact on New England ecology was minimal before Europeans arrived
Before Europeans arrived in New England, local ecology was driven by climate shifts, not by human interventions.
Harvard Overseer election and divestment
The spring-semester agenda on climate-change advocacy takes shape—on campus and beyond.
Astronomers name interstellar “ripple” the “Radcliffe Wave”
The massive “Radcliffe Wave” traces a new map of the sky.
While You Were Away
End-of-semester news and fun from around campus
Harvard Allston Commercial Developer Chosen
The Allston Land Company designates Tishman Speyer to develop the “enterprise research campus” on Western Avenue, with detailed plans yet to come.
Harvard Square under reconstruction
A familiar place’s new faces
Harvard Portrait: Shawon Kinew
Connecting European Old Masters with the new landscape of art history
Harvard faculty divestment debate and Overseer challenge
A faculty debate, and a challenge slate for the Board of Overseers