University News
Breaking developments, leadership announcements, and policy changes from across Harvard’s schools and administration.
Harvard Football: Harvard 45, Penn 43
An epic finish ensures another Ivy title. Next up: Yale. And after?
An Art Installation in Allston
The “WE ALL” art installation aims to foster connections between Harvard and Allston.
by Alisha Ukani
Harvard President Faust stepping down 2018
An expected transition, as the University’s twenty-eighth president plans to conclude her service.
Library of Congress names Harvard alumna Tracy K. Smith as new Poet Laureate
The announcement comes at a busy time for the writer, who is at work on two operas and will soon publish her fifth verse collection, Wade in the Water.
Harvard launches engineering-business degree
A new joint business-engineering master’s program to accelerate innovation, entrepreneurship, and leadership for technology companies
Fred Glimp, a Harvard legend, dies at 91
The long-serving dean and vice president was a proud member of the College’s “Great Middle Class.”
Harvard graduate-student unionization
The status of a contested election
Harvard faculty diversity
Documenting a decade of gradual evolution in the professoriate
University People
New Board of Overseers leaders, top teachers, Pulitzer Prize winners, and more
Harvard College quantitative requirement
The vexatious business of defining a gen-ed course in quantitative literacy
Harvard College final club sanctions
The College’s final-club sanctions: an update