University News

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

Harvard Faculty Discuss Tenure Denials

New data show a shift in when, in the process, rejections occur

by Joanna M Weiss

Portraying Larry Summers

Celebrating the twenty-seventh president—and assessing his legacy

by John S. Rosenberg

Three Alumni Named as National Book Award Finalists

An historian, a poet, and a translator

by Lydialyle Gibson

Two Harvard Affiliates Share Chemistry Nobel

Recognized for advances in functional chemistry

by John S. Rosenberg

Justice Elena Kagan, in Dissent

Ebbing trust in the Supreme Court, and what to do about it  

by Lincoln Caplan

Greenland’s Fingerprint in Rising Seas

Satellite data reveal the first unambiguous evidence linking a melting ice sheet to a predicted pattern of sea level rise.

by Jonathan Shaw

Finishing Kick

President Bacow’s agenda during his last fall term

Will Global Democracy Survive?

Scholars on the current rise of fascism, domestically and abroad

by Nancy Walecki

“This Is About Justice”

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy speaks at the Harvard Kennedy School.

by Lydialyle Gibson

Portraying Lawrence H. Summers

Unveiling the official portrait of the twenty-seventh president

by John S. Rosenberg

What Was the Enlightenment, Really?

“Dare to Know” exhibition highlights nuances in the age of reason.

by Nancy Walecki