University News
Breaking developments, leadership announcements, and policy changes from across Harvard’s schools and administration.
The Secrets Glaciers Tell
A Harvard class explores the glacial legacy of pollution emitted by the Roman Empire
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Endowment Manager EarningsHarvard Management Company’s (HMC) annual disclosure of the salary, bonus, and benefit payments to its president...
GSAS Alumni Day
On April 5, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences alumni and their guests are invited to a day-long celebration featuring afternoon symposiums on...
Engineering Dean to Step Down
Narayanamurti, the Armstrong professor of engineering and applied sciences, cited a desire to return to teaching and research. He had...
At Harvard Medical International, Changes Afoot
Since its inception, it has developed more than 50 programs, in more than 30 countries across five continents. The website lists more than two dozen projects currently under way...
Farewell to Folkman
Since the Boston Globe's White Coat Notes health blog reported the news, Folkman's colleagues, patients, and friends—more than 100 people in all—have posted comments, sharing their remembrances in a moving tribute to the physician-researcher...
"Harry Potter" Author to Speak at Commencement
University president Drew Gilpin Faust said: "Perhaps no one in our time has done more than J.K. Rowling to inspire young people to experience the excitement and the sheer joy of reading. Global sales of Rowling's seven novels...
Art Museum Two-Step
The museum of modern and contemporary art that Harvard plans to build in Allston will have to wait. In September, the Harvard Corporation...
Nobelists of Note
Five alumni—two of them former faculty members—and the recipient of an honorary doctorate were among those to whom Nobel Prizes were...
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Public Health Dean Steps Down Photograph by Kris Snibbe/ Harvard News Office Barry R. Bloom Barry R. Bloom, dean of the Harvard School of...
Unique Senior Housing
During the last five years, MIT’s former director of planning, Robert Simha, MIT president emeritus Paul Gray, and a core group of other...