University News
Breaking developments, leadership announcements, and policy changes from across Harvard’s schools and administration.
House Committee Subpoenas Harvard Over Tuition Costs
The University must turn over all requested materials related to tuition and financial aid by mid-July.
by Tamara Evdokimova
Driving on I-95
A Harvard undergraduate ponders growing up and taking risks.
by Maia Silber
Climate-Change Solutions
A panel of experts debates the best path forward.
by Jonathan Shaw
Festive Fare, Afield
Celebrating the graduates and their families, without the throng
by Nell Porter-Brown
The Week’s Events
Commencement week calendar
University News Briefs
Climate change, divestment, the honor code, Olympics, fundraising, MOOCs, and more
Brevia
Deval Patrick at Commencement, College admissions—and $60,000 term bills, public-affairs VP, and more University news
Protesters Surround Mass. Hall in “Heat Week” Action
Invoking history, activists call weeklong event the “lunch-counter moment for the twenty-first century.”
by Stephanie Garlock
Harvard Public Health Dean Julio Frenk to Depart
Appointed president of University of Miami
by John S. Rosenberg
A Conversation with Tracy K. Smith ’94
The poet discusses her newest book, the memoir Ordinary Light.
by Sophia Nguyen
The “Little Object That Speaks Loudly”
Archaeologists examine printing type found deep in Harvard Yard.
by Stephanie Garlock