University News

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

Harvard Football: Harvard 31, Columbia 14

The Crimson stay unbeaten with a workmanlike win over the Lions.

by Dick Friedman

The “Toxicity of Low Expectations”

Radcliffe Class Day panelists on higher education's responsibility to boost economic mobility

by Nancy Walecki

Somethings Old, Somethings New

Familiar preliminaries, but with many post-pandemic wrinkles for Harvard’s 371st Commencement, in-person again

by John S. Rosenberg , Jacob Sweet

New Harvard Overseers and HAA Directors

Election results announced

by Nell Porter-Brown

Harvard Confers Seven Honorary Degrees

Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern, Gloria Steinem, William Julius Wilson among those recognized—plus a world food humanitarian engaged in Ukraine

by John S. Rosenberg

Maia Sandu at Kennedy School Class Day

A battler against corruption in a small, threatened nation

by Lydialyle Gibson

“A Choice Not to Deal with Original Sin”

Loretta Lynch at Law School Class Day

by Jonathan Shaw

Saluting the 2022 Centennial Medalists

Four alumni of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences are honored.

by Jonathan Shaw

“To Serve Better Thy Country and Thy Kind”

Eight graduates commissioned into the armed services at ROTC ceremony

by Nancy Walecki

Michelle Wu Tells the Truth

The Boston mayor shares her story at the College’s Class Day 2022.

by Jacob Sweet

Graduate School of Design Class Day Speaker Danielle S. Allen

Designing solutions to the “Great Pulling Apart”

by Nell Porter-Brown