University News

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

Harvard Law School Releases Digital Archive of Nuremberg Trials

Thousands of documents chronicle the Nazi regime and the legal effort to exact justice.

by Lydialyle Gibson

Medical School adopts new staffing, processes for animal care

Following animal deaths and government investigations, Dean Jeffrey S. Flier endorses recommendations for New England Primate Research Center

Can the U.S. compete? A discussion with Harvard Business School faculty members

A discussion with Harvard Business School faculty members

How Bill Marden got into Harvard and fulfilled the language requirement

How Bill Marden got into Harvard and fulfilled the language requirement.

Harvard's baseball coach Joe Walsh dies suddenly at 58

He coached for the past 17 seasons and won five Ivy League championships.

Renewing and renovating the Houses for Harvard undergraduates

Dunster House will get the first makeover as part of a project to renovate Harvard's Houses. Students will take up temporary residence at the Inn at Harvard.

Harvard news: solar cells, edX rolls out, Drew Faust on TV, and more

Harvard's largest solar installation, edX develops, Drew Faust’s research becomes a TV program, the Gilgamesh sculpture, and more

Short profile of David Jones, Ackerman professor of the culture of medicine

David Jones, Ackerman professor of the culture of medicine, works in both history and medicine.

Harvard to resume expansion in Allston with stem cell science building, housing

Harvard will build housing and resume construction of a science building, submitting a new Institutional Master Plan by October.

Summer Harvard construction: Fogg Art Museum, Tata Hall, Quincy House

Summer construction—on the Fogg Art Museum, the Business School’s Tata Hall, Old Quincy, and more—renews the campus.

Xiao-Li Meng is the new dean of Harvard's Graduate School of Arts and Sciences

The statistics professor succeeds Allan Brandt.