University News
Breaking developments, leadership announcements, and policy changes from across Harvard’s schools and administration.
Trump Administration Appeals Order Restoring $2.7 Billion in Funding to Harvard
The appeal, which had been expected, came two days before the deadline to file.
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.
Faculty retirements, a HUCTW contract, and hospital aid to Harvard Med School
Waiting to hear about faculty retirements; a new HUCTW contract; and a cash infusion for the Medical School from its affiliated hospitals
Roundup of recent Harvard news
Canaday's solar roof, a rare giant flower, oil-spill commissioner, and more
Scientists and media react to news of Marc Hauser leave, paper retraction
In the days after the Boston Globe reported that "evidence of scientific misconduct" was found in a psychology professor's lab, commenters urge Harvard and the scholar himself to explain.
Psychologist and author Marc Hauser takes leave of absence as paper is retracted
Hauser, whose work involves animal cognition, was the subject of an investigation resulting in the retraction of one of his papers, the Boston Globe reports.
Harvard hires squash coach MIke Way
Harvard has signed a new squash coach, Canadian Mike Way.
On world tour, Harvard Business School dean Nohria talks "radical innovation"
A round-the-world whistle-stop tour promotes a message of change for business education.
Harvard social sciences dean Kosslyn moves to Stanford center
The cognitive psychologist will become director of the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford.