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

Freddy Guevara, a Venezuelan opposition leader and a visiting fellow at the Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation

Harvard Scholars Discuss Venezuela After Maduro

A Harvard Kennedy School panel unpacks the nation’s oil sector, economy, and democratic hopes.

by Olivia Farrar

Hard-hitting defensive back Sean Ahern (seven solo tackles, one pass breakup) and the rest of the Crimson senior defenders went out with a bang, keeping the Elis scoreless as Harvard piled up 31 unanswered points.

Harvard beats Yale to win share of Ivy championship

A win in the Bowl seals a share of the Ivy championship.

by Dick Friedman

The portrait of Warren professor of American legal history Annette Gordon-Reed was among those defaced.

Photographs of black professors defaced at Harvard Law School

Tensions arise at the University—as elsewhere around the country. 

by Marina N. Bolotnikova

Freshman Corey Johnson sank five three-pointers against Providence on Saturday, the most by any Harvard player since then-senior Laurent Rivard sank six in 2014.

Harvard men’s basketball splits opening-weekend games

Harvard men’s basketball splits opening-weekend games.

by David L. Tannenwald

Harvard Medical School dean Jeffrey Flier steps down

A transition at medicine, and at public health

by John S. Rosenberg

Sam Greenberg ’14 and Sarah Rosenkrantz ’14 walk Senator Elizabeth Warren through the soon-to-be-finished shelter.

Two young Harvard alumni generate a refuge for homeless youths in the Square

Two young alumni generate a refuge for homeless youths.

by Lydialyle Gibson

Paulson dean Francis J. Doyle III

Harvard’s new dean of Engineering and applied sciences outlines goals

School of engineering positioned to tackle big, cross-disciplinary societal problems, says new dean.

Moderated by Harvard Law School's Jonathan L. Zittrain (left), planners and designers discussed the “digital campus.” In the twenty-first century, said John Palfrey ’94, J.D. ’11 (second from left), head of school at Phillips Academy, Andover, “the green fields we build on will be in cyberspace.”

A Harvard conference on the future of research universities

A Harvard conversation on campus design—with implications for Allston

by Lydialyle Gibson

Harvard squeezes by Dartmouth, 14-13, for twenty-first straight win

Harvard squeezes by Dartmouth, 14-13, for its twenty-first straight win.

by Dick Friedman

Harvard senior linebacker Eric Medes (49) had a team-high seven tackles and a sack of Leopard quarterback Drew Reed.

Harvard football squad numbs Lafayette’s Leopards, 42-0

On a sparklingly cold day, the Crimson numbed the Leopards. 

by Dick Friedman

Rendering of planned science and engineering complex in Allston

Allston science center unveiled, online learning, faculty awards, and more

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