University News

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

Teaching Through War With AI

Harvard Graduate School of Education students examine the use of AI in wartime Ukraine.

by Olivia Farrar

Divest Harvard Protesters Blockade President Faust's Massachusetts Hall Office

Invoking history, activists call weeklong event the “lunch-counter moment for the twenty-first century.”

by Stephanie Garlock

Talking with Tracy K. Smith, author of "Ordinary Light"

The poet discusses her newest book, the memoir Ordinary Light.

by Sophia Nguyen

Peabody museum curators discuss archaeology of Harvard Yard project

Archaeologists examine printing type found deep in Harvard Yard.

by Stephanie Garlock

Atticus Lish wins PEN/Faulkner for debut novel “Preparation for the Next Life”

He is honored for his debut novel, Preparation for the Next Life.

Harvard MOOC online learning lessons from edX

Harvard and MIT researchers mine masses of data about online learning—and begin to address applications to campus classrooms.

by John S. Rosenberg

Harvard College admissions and costs

The new students, and the advent of the $60,000-plus term bill

Adams House dedicates suite to Seamus Heaney

Adams House members, past and present, dedicate a suite to the Irish poet who lived among them.

by Sophia Nguyen

Intuit founder and former CEO Scott Cook will address HBS class of 2015

The founder of Intuit will speak at Harvard Business School Class Day.

Harvard professors, journalist Nate Cohn discuss data and voting rights

Why good data are essential to understanding the Voting Rights Act

by Stephanie Garlock