University News

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

Three Harvard Unions Move Toward Strikes

Dining employees, academic workers unions join graduate students in threatening a walkout.

by Lydialyle Gibson

Heritage Museums & Gardens, in Sandwich, Massachusetts

Gardens, antique cars, and a carousel on Cape Cod

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

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