University News
Breaking developments, leadership announcements, and policy changes from across Harvard’s schools and administration.
Mark Carney on the Limits of Soft Power
At the 2026 Davos summit, the Canadian prime minister echoes Harvard’s Joseph Nye.
21,000 Hours
President Larry Bacow’s first Freshman Convocation
First-Gen Orientation
Harvard’s inaugural pre-orientation program for low-income freshmen
Visualizing the World at the Harvard Map Collection
Maps can be applied to straightforward ends; they can also be fanciful, surprising, or plain weird.
Lives Glimpsed through Passports
Houghton exhibit documents “the dream of a globalized world.”
A printer's archive and Nam June Paik's video art, at the Harvard Art Museums
Recent acquisitions at the Harvard Art Museums train a fresh lens on photography and video art.
Bacow Appoints Claudine Gay dean of FAS
President Bacow’s first major appointment
Graduate Student Union Considers Agenda
The HGSU-UAW prepares for fall negotiations.
Harvardians May Make Donald Trump’s Supreme Court Shortlist
Edward Mansfield, Robert Young are up for consideration.
Harvard President Bacow Welcome Message
A community letter as the new administration begins
Gender Studies Appoints Robert Reid-Pharr to Professorship
The CUNY scholar will become the first senior faculty hire for the program, which has added new members in recent years.