University News

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

Teaching Through War With AI

Harvard Graduate School of Education students examine the use of AI in wartime Ukraine.

by Olivia Farrar

Are Hospital Pay-for-Performance Programs Failing?

Harvard researchers ask whether market incentives can improve healthcare. 

by Marina N. Bolotnikova

New Study Calls Subway Germs Mostly Harmless

Curtis Huttenhower and colleagues analyze bugs on Boston’s T.

by Aidan Langston

Supreme Court Upholds Affirmative Action

Harvard had filed a brief urging the Court to uphold affirmative action last year. 

by Marina N. Bolotnikova

Barbara J. McNeil Again Named Acting Dean of Harvard Medical School

Barbara J. McNeil will lead Harvard Medical School on an interim basis beginning July 31.

by Jonathan Shaw

Harvard fundraiser O’Neil A. S. Outar departs

A change in a senior Harvard fundraising role

by John S. Rosenberg

Televangelist Carlton Pearson donates personal archive to Harvard

Carlton Pearson, exiled from his church, donates years of preaching on tape to Harvard.

by Aidan Langston

Harvard’s 365th Commencement

Harvard goes Hollywood for Commencement, with sunny scenery, but sober talk.

Harvard Commencement speakers Spielberg, Faust, more

Commencement oratory from Steven Spielberg, Drew Faust, and others

Harvard 365th Commencement highlights

A multitalented student, political zingers, a retiring Commencement directors, final-club ribbing, and more

Harvard business engineering schools in Allston

Amid an Allston building boom, the first new academic ties between Harvard Business School and the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences

by John S. Rosenberg