University News

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

Chan School of Public Health Department Chair Departs for UCLA

Kari Nadeau, an environmental health leader, will serve as the dean of the Fielding School of Public Health.

by Jonathan Shaw

Doctoral Director

Allan M. Brandt became dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences (GSAS), within the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS), on January 1. A...

Focusing on the Ph.D.

During her tenure as dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences (GSAS), from mid 2005 through last December, Theda Skocpol says, “I...

Brevia

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...

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...

Approaching the Arts Anew

Harvard president Drew Faust made the inaugural performance at the New College Theatre, on November 1, the setting for her announcement of a...