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

Heritage Museums & Gardens, in Sandwich, Massachusetts

Cape Cod’s Heritage Museums & Gardens

by Nell Porter-Brown

Harvard’s 2018 Commencement rites

A celebration of President Drew Faust, and wariness about the assault on “veritas”

by John S. Rosenberg

President Drew Faust’s Harvard valedictory

President Faust’s Commencement afternoon valedictory address on hope and higher education

by Drew Gilpin Faust

Crimmigration: Harvard Law students address immigrants’ legal challenges

Harvard Law students address immigrants’ legal challenges.

by Marina N. Bolotnikova

Harvard governing-board appointments

A business leader and a college president join the Corporation.

by John S. Rosenberg

Underground: The Story of Harvard’s Class of 1968

A senior thesis, and a new film, on the “historic generational shift” of which the class of 1968 was a part.

by Lydialyle Gibson

Mass Hall Facelift

Presidents Faust, Bacow relocated as the renovations proceed

by Brandon J. Dixon

A celebration of Matthew Meselson

A symposium honors a scientist who championed biological and chemical weapons control.

by Jonathan Shaw

Risk-Taking Lizards

How lizards’ behavior influences natural selection

by Marina N. Bolotnikova

Hillary Clinton Receives Radcliffe Medal

The 2016 presidential candidate discusses her time at Wellesley, the crisis in American government, and the importance of raising empathetic children. 

by Marina N. Bolotnikova