University News

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

Getting to Mars (for Real)

Humans have been dreaming of living on the Red Planet for decades. Harvard researchers are on the case.

by Olivia Farrar

Neil Patrick Harris is the Hasty Pudding Club's 2014 Man of the Year

The Emmy-winning actor and singer will receive his Hasty Pudding Pot February 7.

Harvard College dean Rakesh Khurana

Becomes chief administrator for student life and activities

Stolen Chinese censer returns to Harvard Art Museums

Three decades later, an eighteenth-century artwork returns home.

Harvard's Hasty Pudding picks Helen Mirren as its Woman of the Year

The Hasty Pudding picks an Oscar winner for its pudding pot.

A Harvard Kennedy School forum considers women and their role in world peace.

An HKS forum considers women and their role in world peace.

Massachusetts General Hospital's resident mummy undergoes restoration and study

MGH's resident mummy undergoes restoration and a medical exam.

Herbie Hancock Is Harvard’s 2014 Norton Professor of Poetry

The jazz pianist will give six lectures in February and March.

Four Harvard hockey players on the U.S. women's 2014 Winter Olympic team

Four Harvard players have made the U.S. Olympic ice hockey team bound for Sochi, Russia.

Daniel K. Ludwig Bequest Endows Study of Cancer's Resistance to Therapy

The Ludwig Cancer Research gift endows the study of resistance to therapy.

A recent alumnus reflects on grade inflation at Harvard College

Harvard, grading, and taking the training wheels off

by Michael Zuckerman