University News

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

Harvard Faculty Discuss Tenure Denials

New data show a shift in when, in the process, rejections occur

by Joanna M Weiss

Enforcing Social-Club Sanctions Won’t Require Oaths

Harvard College spells out how its new policy will be enforced.

by Marina N. Bolotnikova

Harvard Commencement speaker John Lewis

A civil-rights leader returns to campus.  

by John S. Rosenberg

Salvadoran Workers Speak Out on TPS

Dozens of Harvard workers will be affected by the Trump administration’s policy changes.

by Marina N. Bolotnikova

Looking Back at the Lampoon’s Heyday

A new biopic, scripted by John Aboud ’95 and Michael Colton ’97, follows how Doug Kenney ’68 franchised fun, died young, and became a comedy legend.

by Sophia Nguyen

Remembering Towering Physicist Julian Schwinger (1918-1994)

At Jefferson Laboratory, Nobel Prize winners gather to remember one of their own.

by Jonathan Shaw

Harvard Names Lawrence S. Bacow Twenty-Ninth President

The former Tufts president and MIT chancellor emeritus will succeed Drew Faust on July 1.

by John S. Rosenberg

At Harvard, "Inventur" delves into a forgotten period of German art

Taking stock of an overlooked cohort of artists: those who, during World War II, stayed in Germany—and survived

by Sophia Nguyen

Allston development, advanced standing, Medical School monies

Allston development, advanced standing, Medical School monies

by John S. Rosenberg

Development leader departs, undergraduate ed dean steps down, and more

Development leader departs, undergraduate ed dean steps down, and more

Grad-student unionization, sexual assault, and more

Grad-student unionization, sexual assault, and more