University News

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

Public health dean Andrea Baccarelli wearing a white collared shirt and glasses.

The School of Public Health, Facing a Financial Reckoning, Seizes the Chance to Reinvent Itself

Dean Andrea Baccarelli plans for a smaller, more impactful Chan School of 2030.

by Jonathan Shaw

Professor Ali Malkawi, the founding director of the Harvard Center for Green Buildings and Cities, welcomes participants to the challenge conference.

Center for Green Buildings and Cities hosts challenge conference at Harvard

Harvard Center for Green Buildings and Cities hosts inaugural challenge conference.

David Ellwood

Harvard Kennedy School Dean David Ellwood steps down

The Harvard Kennedy School’s leader will conclude his service at the end of the academic year.

Harvard Kennedy School campus expansion

An ambitious expansion and reconfiguration goes before Cambridge planners.

Dean James Ryan speaks to the more than 1,300 attendees at the HGSE campaign launch, held under a tent in Radcliffe Yard.

Harvard education school's $250-million capital campaign

Harvard aims to “learn to change the world” at a moment of crisis and promise in schooling.

Emblazoned on the side of Gund Hall, this phrase offered motivation for the Graduate School of Design’s $110-million campaign launch.

Harvard design school’s $110-million capital campaign

Local and global ambitions for "grounded visionaries" in architecture, landscape design, and urban planning

Dr. Gerald Chan found his life’s course at Harvard School of Public Health; now, his family’s foundation is making a gift that transforms the school’s path and potential.

Harvard Public Health School receives $350-million gift

A transformational gift undergirds a global health agenda.

Ram Venkateswaran, of the HMS class of 2017, performs in the Tosteson Medical Education Center’s atrium last spring. He and pianist Chris Lim, HMS ’16, offered a joint program: “<i>Sicilienne</i>” (Fauré); “<i>Sicilienne</i>” (von Paradis); “Spanish Dance” (Granados/Kreisler); and <i>“Widmung</i>” (Schumann/Liszt).

Music and medicine converge at Harvard Medical School

Harvard Medical School turns to the humanities.

by Karolina Brook

Mia Karvonides

Harvard University releases a new sexual assault policy and procedures

A central University team will initiate investigations of cases.

The Fulbright Economics Teaching Program’s nameplate at its campus in Ho Chi Minh City

Harvard-affiliated Fulbright university vietnam in Ho Chi Minh City

Harvard-affiliated Fulbright University approved by prime minister

A rendering of the Ruth Mulan Chu Chao Center

Harvard College admissions, business school center, endowment compensation

Harvard Business School’s Chao Center, College admissions, endowment managers’ compensation, and more