University News
Breaking developments, leadership announcements, and policy changes from across Harvard’s schools and administration.
Harvard Alumni Affairs Databases Breached
The University is investigating the cyberattack, which may have compromised the personal information of alumni, donors, students, faculty, and staff.
Allegations of lowering of academic standards and improper recruiting
See the statement issued by the Ivy League on September 3, as well as background links...
Ecophilic Initiatives
Examples of how the University and its constituent parts have been going green during the past several years...
Medical Makeover
A new master's program and expansion of the M.D./Ph.D. program are two among many changes to emerge from the Harvard Medical School (HMS) strategic-planning process...
University People
Edward C. Forst ’82 has been named Harvard’s first executive vice president, effective September 1.
Environmental Action
Harvard is already trying many green initiatives; it will need to do much more to meet its new greenhouse-gas emissions goal...
Harvard by the Numbers
As FAS dean Michael D. Smith illustrated with these figures, social sciences (economics, government, history, and so on) attract the largest number of College concentrators...
The Liberal Art of Engineering
The 10-year tenure of Venkatesh Narayanamurti, dean of the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS), will end in September...
Brevia
The first Allston science laboratories, now under construction, will present a rectilinear face to the surrounding streets...
Memorial for Henry C. Moses
Alumni, faculty, staff, and friends are invited to remember Henry C. Moses, dean of freshmen at Harvard College from 1977 to 1991.
Harvard Tops U.S. News Rankings
As the Globe's Peter Schworm notes, in grandiose language, Harvard has finished second to Princeton for the last two years, but "today, order has been restored to the universe...