University News
Breaking developments, leadership announcements, and policy changes from across Harvard’s schools and administration.
Harvard College Class of 2019 Admissions and Term Bill
The new students, and the advent of the $60,000-plus term bill
A New Life for Heaney’s Home at Harvard
Adams House members, past and present, dedicate a suite to the Irish poet who lived among them.
by Sophia Nguyen
Scott Cook to Address HBS Graduating Class
The founder of Intuit will speak at Harvard Business School Class Day.
Crunching the Numbers on Voting Rights in America
Why good data are essential to understanding the Voting Rights Act
by Stephanie Garlock
Sven Beckert Wins Bancroft Prize in History
His Empire of Cotton: A Global History puts slavery in an international context.
by Jonathan Shaw
Gabrielle Giffords and Mark Kelly to Speak at HLS Class Day
The former U.S. Representative and the NASA astronaut will speak on May 27.
Climate Change Heats Up
A campus focus on global warming
by John S. Rosenberg
Poet Laura Kasischke and Orator Allen Counter To Speak at Literary Exercises
Harvard’s Phi Beta Kappa ceremony opens Commencement week on May 26.
Iconic Library Embraces Digital Era
Oxford’s Bodleian opens its new Weston Library.
by Spencer Lee Lenfield
Harvard, Heeled
Harvard’s 67-65 loss to North Carolina ends an Ivy League championship year.
by David L. Tannenwald