University News
Breaking developments, leadership announcements, and policy changes from across Harvard’s schools and administration.
Sylvia Mathews Burwell and Michael S. Chae to Join Harvard Corporation
The alumni will fill two vacancies on the University’s governing board.
"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...
Brevia
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...
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...
Science and Sleep on Line
The University’s Office of News and Public Affairs has debuted HarvardScience (https://harvardscience.harvard.edu), a website on...
Refining the Allston Master Plan
A year ago, Harvard filed three sets of plans for building in Allston with the City of Boston: a master plan for the new Allston campus, plans...
Allston Plans in the News
The only certainty within the framework of Harvard’s existing Allston campus plans is the construction of a four-building science complex...
New Graduate School Dean
Brandt will succeed Theda Skocpol, Thomas professor of government and sociology, who became dean in 2005 but announced her intention to step down last spring...