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