University News

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

Nieman Foundation Names Henry Chu as Interim Curator

Veteran LA Times journalist calls attention to press freedom

by Vivian W. Rong

From the Battlefield to the Classroom

The Warrior-Scholar Project runs its first program at Harvard.

by Francesca Annic...

A Glass Menagerie

The Harvard Museum of Natural History showcases Blaschka glass invertebrates.

New, Harvard-wide Sexual Assault Policy Released

A central University team will initiate investigations of cases.

Filmmaker Robert Gardner Dies at 88

The anthropological filmmaker founded the Harvard Film Study Center.

On Doing Nothing

Overcoming the Harvard zeal to be “productive”

by Ben Sobel

The Humanities Village People

Harvard undergraduates delve deep into summer humanistic research.

by Francesca Annic...

A New University for Vietnam

Harvard-affiliated Fulbright University approved by prime minister

John Adams’s “Klinghoffer” Stirs Controversy at Metropolitan Opera

The Metropolitan Opera cancelled plans to broadcast the opera The Death of Klinghoffer, by John Adams.

An Honorand’s Passing

Art historian Seymour Slive, Ar.D. ’14, dies at 93.

Memorial Church Gets New Bell

After a two-foot crack appeared in 2011, the old bell is finally replaced.