University News
Breaking developments, leadership announcements, and policy changes from across Harvard’s schools and administration.
Five Questions with Tien Jiang
How brushing and flossing can protect your heart
Harvard Executive-Education Losses
An acute casualty of the COVID-19 pandemic
Radcliffe Institute Announces 2020-2021 Fellows
During the pandemic, a virtual fellowship year looms.
Harvard Law Offers Zero-L Free Nationwide
An online orientation encourages enrollment at an anxious moment for students—and universities.
COVID-19 and the Graduate Student Union
“When times are tough, there comes to be this real question of who is forced to bear the cost.”
Could the reproduction number of SARS-CoV-2 be double early estimates?
A critical scientific question that bears on policies for fighting the pandemic
William Giannobile Named Dean of Harvard School of Dental Medicine
The periodontology expert will assume his new role September 1.
Harvard Schools Pandemic Pressures
Deans articulate their diverse faculties’ divergent priorities (and problems)—plus an MIT perspective
Harvard Engineering Allston Move Deferred
As the pandemic halts construction, the move-in schedule for the fall semester has slipped.
Harvard Design Dean Whiting Cancer Treatment
The new dean has been diagnosed with non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma.
HBS Dean Nohria Stays on During Coronavirus Crisis
Nitin Nohria, scheduled to step down June 30, will remain dean through 2020.