University News
Breaking developments, leadership announcements, and policy changes from across Harvard’s schools and administration.
Harvard’s New Online Orientation Emphasizes Intellectual Paths
A summer course for first-years focuses on academic success, diverse viewpoints.
Harvard endowment rises 11 percent
Harvard Management Company reports positive results, following the sharp decline in fiscal year 2009.
Can an HIV-infected person safely have a child with an uninfected partner?
Can an HIV-infected person safely have a child with an uninfected partner? Harvard scholars highlight a new approach.
Opening days for Harvard College class of 2014
Freshmen are advised, “Embrace the awkward!"
Marc Hauser comments on scientific misconduct in his psychology lab
The latest coverage on misconduct in the psychology professor's lab also includes an assertion by a scientific journal editor that he can only conclude that data for one retracted paper were fabricated.
FAS dean details Hauser scientific misconduct
The dean reports eight incidents of misconduct, and explains the faculty's procedures for dealing with them
Newspaper offers details of Marc Hauser lab investigation
The Chronicle of Higher Education quotes an internal Harvard report it obtained from a former research assistant to psychology professor Marc Hauser.
Update on Fogg Art Museum renovation
Gutting the Fogg Art Museum on the way to renovating it
Harvard Medical School revises conflicts-of-interest policies
As corporate relationships with researchers and doctors come under more scrutiny, Harvard Medical School updates its policies.
Harvard moves to a tenure track for appointing professors
Revised promotion policies transform younger faculty members' lives—and promise sweeping changes in the professoriate as a whole.
Harvard's EVP revises budget, capital-planning projects
Executive vice president Katie Lapp is swiftly altering the ways Harvard budgets, builds, computes, and more.