University News
Breaking developments, leadership announcements, and policy changes from across Harvard’s schools and administration.
Harvard College Shutters Dudley Community, Lays Off Writing Center Director
FAS leaders say restructuring will be complete by mid-October.
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 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...
SEAS Interim Dean Appointed
Spaepen is Franklin professor of applied physics and director of the Rowland Institute at Harvard. He previously....
Passages: Julius Richmond, Founding Director of Head Start
Julius B. Richmond, MacArthur professor of health policy emeritus and a revered figure among scholars and politicians, died Sunday...
Frenk Appointed Dean of School of Public Health
President Drew Faust announced on July 29 the appointment of Julio Frenk as dean of the Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH)...
Faust Appoints VP for Government, Community, and Public Affairs
President Drew Faust appointed Christine Heenan, founder and president of Clarendon Group, a Providence, Rhode Island-based public and government relations firm...
University Vows to Cut Greenhouse Gases
Harvard aims to cut its greenhouse-gas emissions by 30 percent in the next eight years, President Drew Faust announced today...
Benefactor Katherine Loker Dies at 92
Katherine B. Loker, whose gifts to Harvard underwrote the renovation of the Widener Library main reading room and the transformation of the Memorial Hall basement, died June 26 at her home in Oceanside, California...