University News

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

Judge Orders NIH to Restore Grants

Ruling likely won’t affect most of Harvard’s research cuts. 

by Lydialyle Gibson

Sherry Turkle, Mark Doty, to Speak at Phi Beta Kappa Exercises

Harvard’s Phi Beta Kappa ceremony kicks off Commencement week on May 23.

by Sophia Nguyen

“How War Has Made Us”

Drew Faust, in Ho Chi Minh City, on the Civil War and the Vietnam War

by John S. Rosenberg

Why the Grad Student Union Election Is Still Contested

Harvard and the union disagree over whether more than 300 ballots should be counted.

by Marina N. Bolotnikova

Objecting to Student Oaths

A new challenge to College sanctions on single-gender social clubs

by John S. Rosenberg

Mark Zuckerberg to Speak at Harvard Commencement

The University announces Facebook’s CEO as its headliner for May 25.

by John S. Rosenberg

Harvard College’s Cross-Charles Classes

A tradition transformed, to prepare for undergraduate education across the river.

by John S. Rosenberg

“A Vast Slave Society”

A Radcliffe Institute conference highlights universities’role—and debates how to come to terms with their past.

by Lydialyle Gibson

As Schoenhof’s Shutters, a Look at the Square’s Independent Bookstores

A business model struggles to stay alive.

by Oset Babür

Learning to Lose

Sharmila Sen on making a life in the humanities. 

by Bailey Trela

Reporting on the Environment in Trump’s America

What happens when science and the presidential administration are at odds just three weeks in? 

by Oset Babür