University News
Breaking developments, leadership announcements, and policy changes from across Harvard’s schools and administration.
Yale Chief Will Lead Harvard Police Department
Anthony Campbell will take up his new post in January.
Harvard May Avoid FY 2021 Operating Loss Despite Pandemic
Reduced expenses offset declines in revenue for FY 2021, helping Harvard avoid the layoffs that have eliminated one in eight jobs within higher education.
Harvard to Launch Quantum Science and Engineering Ph.D. Program
Renovation of 60 Oxford Street will create a quantum hub where theorists and engineers work side by side.
A Net-Zero-Energy Victorian Home Makes History
HBS alumna Betsy Harper develops the first net-zero-energy, Victorian “passive house” in the world.
Kevin Young Addresses Harvard Alumni Association
The acclaimed poet and director of the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture will speak at the annual meeting on June 4—and other graduation-week speakers are announced.
Harvard pilots in-person teaching for fall
Faculty of Arts and Sciences tests hybrid classrooms and other pandemic adaptations.
Harvard Alumni Medalists Announced
Alumni Association announces Harvard Medalists.
Rapid Tests, in Time for Fall Surge
Rapid COVID-19 tests, of the kind that Michael Mina has been advocating since last year, are finally approved for home use.
Harvard and sexual harassment: an apology for the past; new steps to end it now
A withering investigation of sexual harassment
Harvard reports on “net-zero” investment process
Harvard Management Company issues its first “Climate Report,” and an update on divestment advocacy, and other institutions’ progress
Allston expansion, admissions litigation, center for cities
Bigger Allston ambitions, an admissions-lawsuit appeal, and a new center for cities