University News

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

How AI Is Reshaping Supply Chains

Harvard Kennedy School lecturer on using AI to strengthen supply chains

by Olivia Farrar

Inside Harvard’s Taylor Swift Course

An English course pairs the music with Willa Cather, William Wordsworth, and Dolly Parton.

by Nina Pasquini

News in Brief

Education dean and football coach step down, a significant art acquisition, and more

Talking about Talking

Fostering healthy disagreement

by Max J. Krupnick

Reengineering Arts and Sciences

Spurring innovation, rethinking departments, tapping centers—and Ph.D. support

by John S. Rosenberg

A Presidency’s End

Controversies over terrorism and antisemitism, free speech, plagiarism, and broader cultural currents bring a brief presidency to a traumatic end.

by John S. Rosenberg

Kenneth C. Frazier and Joseph Y. Bae to Join Harvard Corporation

Will succeed David M. Rubenstein and Paul Finnegan

by John S. Rosenberg , Jonathan Shaw

Harvard Overseers Petitioners 2024

Harvard alumni seeking a place on the Board of Overseers ballot

by John S. Rosenberg

Harvard Historians on Trump

Harvard historians’ Supreme Court brief 

by Max J. Krupnick

Harvard Researchers on How to Use Federal Funding to Reduce Disparities in Pandemic Learning Losses

Expiring federal funds can address pandemic learning losses. 

by Nina Pasquini

Peabody Museum Removes Native American Funerary Objects

Responds to federal rules requiring tribal consultation and consent

by Lydialyle Gibson