University News

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

Harvard Kennedy School Unveils American Service Fellowship

Will fund degrees for 50 public servants and military veterans

by Max J. Krupnick

Sarah Whiting Named Dean of the Graduate School of Design

Currently dean of the Rice University School of Architecture, Whiting will assume her new post on July 1. 

by Jonathan Shaw

Howard Gardner et al. on higher education in the twenty-first century

Howard Gardner and colleagues release a seven-year study of higher education in the twenty-first century.

by John S. Rosenberg

Harvard renames art film department

Renaming Visual and Environmental Studies to signal a clearer focus on making art and film

by John S. Rosenberg

Will future online education become limited to professional degrees?

Harvard and MIT experiences suggest a more constrained vision for massive free courses.

by Jonathan Shaw

Ruth Okediji, intellectual property law expert

A Nigerian-born professor who brings unusual perspective to intellectual-property law

by Marina N. Bolotnikova

Blavatnik gift accelerates Harvard Medical School research

A $200-million gift from the Blavatnik Family Foundation paves the way.

by John S. Rosenberg

Harvard Allston Land Development Company

New organization, management focus efforts for “enterprise research campus.”  

by John S. Rosenberg

Harvard Medical Record $200 Million Research Gift

Foundation of Len Blavatnik, M.B.A. ’89, makes record pledge for basic and applied science.

Harvard Design Dean to Step Down

Mohsen Mostafavi plans to step down after leading the Graduate School of Design since 2008.

by John S. Rosenberg

Harvard teaching learning agenda

Lessons old and new at the annual Harvard Initiative for Learning and Teaching conference

by John S. Rosenberg