University News

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

Mark Carney on the Limits of Soft Power

At the 2026 Davos summit, the Canadian prime minister echoes Harvard’s Joseph Nye.

by Olivia Farrar

An undergraduate's summer at Harvard

Thoughts on a summer in Cambridge

by Francesca Annic...

Dunster Demolition

An update on the first renovation of an entire Harvard House

by Francesca Annic...

Academic Boot Camp at Harvard for Warrior-Scholars

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

by Francesca Annic...

The Harvard Museum of Natural History showcases Blaschka glass invertebrates

The Harvard Museum of Natural History showcases Blaschka glass invertebrates.

Harvard University releases a new sexual assault policy and procedures

A central University team will initiate investigations of cases.

Filmmaker Robert Gardner Dies at 88

The anthropological filmmaker founded the Harvard Film Study Center.

Harvard student Ben Sobel on his semester off

Overcoming the Harvard zeal to be “productive”

by Ben Sobel

Harvard students spend summer on arts and humanities research projects

Harvard undergraduates delve deep into summer humanistic research.

by Francesca Annic...

Harvard-affiliated Fulbright university vietnam in Ho Chi Minh City

Harvard-affiliated Fulbright University approved by prime minister

John Adams’s “Klinghoffer” at Met prompts new controversy

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