University News

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

Lafayette’s Unexpected Gift to George Washington: Pheasants

The two birds will be on display at Harvard this summer.

by Nell Porter-Brown

Harvard Ed School's McCartney Named Smith College President

Harvard Graduate School of Education dean to depart

Author Toni Morrison gives 2012 Harvard Divinity School Ingersoll Lecture

The author discusses altruism and the literary imagination in the 2012 Ingersoll Lecture.

Harvard makes an Allston accounting adjustment

A reporting change reflects the upheaval in Harvard's finances.

Harvard sells Watertown Arsenal as development downsized

Harvard divests the Arsenal on the Charles complex, in Watertown—once considered swing space in its ambitious Allston growth plans.

Lincoln movie screenplay writer Tony Kushner talks with Harvard President Faust

The screenwriter speaks to the Harvard community at a private screening of the film.

Harvard Divinity's Ahmed wins Grawemeyer Award

Harvard Divinity School scholar recognized for book on Muslim women and the veil

Seven Harvard Students Rhodes Scholars

Seven Yale students, two each from Cornell and Stanford, and one from Brown also honored.

Harvard Business School students model in a 2012 fashion show for charity

The annual fashion show put on by Harvard Business School students raises money for charity.

Harvard urges Congress to protect federal research funding

Joins 15 other leading Massachusetts universities and hospitals in urging Congress to reach a resolution.

Ken Burns visits Harvard to discuss his new PBS documentary "The Dust Bowl"

Ken Burns shares clips from his chronicle of one of the worst man-made ecological disasters in American history.