University News

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

Jerome Powell Talks Risk, Resilience, and AI at Harvard

The Fed Chairman laid out the U.S. central bank’s approach to global conflict and an unpredictable future.

by Schuyler Velasco

New deans, graduate student union, faculty diversity, and a final-club update

Two new deans, a graduate-student union, modest gains in faculty diversity, and a final-club update

by Marina N. Bolotnikova

Brevia

Mass Hall makeover, Adams House renewal on deck, quantitative biology, and more

Harvard president Drew Faust in perspective

Drew Faust’s presidency in perspective

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

Cautious Optimism

A Radcliffe Day panel discusses America’s role in a rapidly changing world.

by Oset Babür

John Lewis and Drew Faust speak at Harvard Commencement

Congressman John Lewis spoke at Drew Faust's last afternoon exercises as Harvard president.

by Sophia Nguyen