University News
Breaking developments, leadership announcements, and policy changes from across Harvard’s schools and administration.
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.
Blavatnik $50 million gift Harvard life sciences boosts biomedical discoveries
Blavatnik Family Foundation’s $50-million gift aims to support development of early-stage Harvard research into human cures
Harvard Medical School to close primate research center
Harvard Medical School announced that it would discontinue the controversial facility
Harvard news: Oprah Winfrey, Cass R. Sunstein, College costs, and more
Harvard news: Oprah at Commencement, Cass R. Sunstein, College admissions and costs, union contract, quiz-show titles overturned, sustainable-investing vice president, and more
TED creator Richard Saul Wurman to speak at GSD
The TED conference creator will address degree candidates on Class Day.
Harvard news: Allston development, education dean, social investing
Harvard news: Allston development, education dean departs, social investing, multimillion-dollar gifts to universities, and more
Abigail Donovan and Laura Prager, pediatric psychiatrists and authors
The pediatric psychiatrists’ book depicts emergency-room experiences with mentally ill children.
Harvard moving School of Engineering and Applied Sciences to Allston campus
Harvard proposes moving the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences to the University’s expanded campus.
An Air Forces Statistical School alumnus and Carl Vigeland on Archibald MacLeish
Statistically, a Harvard man—and Vigeland on MacLeish
Marc Lipsitch warns against experimentation with modified H5N1 virus
Modified H5N1 could infect a billion people if it escapes the lab.
by David Levin
Harvard Law's Michael Klarman on gay-marriage litigation and politics
On activism, litigation, and social change in America