University News
Breaking developments, leadership announcements, and policy changes from across Harvard’s schools and administration.
Are Hospital Pay-for-Performance Programs Failing?
Harvard researchers ask whether market incentives can improve healthcare.
New Study Calls Subway Germs Mostly Harmless
Curtis Huttenhower and colleagues analyze bugs on Boston’s T.
Supreme Court Upholds Affirmative Action
Harvard had filed a brief urging the Court to uphold affirmative action last year.
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.
Harvard fundraiser O’Neil A. S. Outar departs
A change in a senior Harvard fundraising role
Televangelist Carlton Pearson donates personal archive to Harvard
Carlton Pearson, exiled from his church, donates years of preaching on tape to Harvard.
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