University News

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

Harvard Football Team Starts Off an Ivy League Favorite

The 152nd Crimson season kicks off Saturday against Stetson.

by Dick Friedman

Professor arrested, giving guidelines, and a grad-student union update

A professor arrested, gift-giving guidelines, and an update on the graduate-student union

Harvard Allston developer Law School shield and more

The Law School launches a “Shield Working Group,” Allston update, keeping tabs on “fake news,” and more

Sexual Harassment Survivors Condemn Harvard's Investigation Process

Accusers of former Harvard government professor Jorge Domínguez speak out about their experiences. 

by Lydialyle Gibson

Harvard faculty vote, governing board divestment

FAS votes for divestment, and perhaps a contending Overseers’ slate

by John S. Rosenberg

One Hundred Years of Educating Educators

At its centennial, the Harvard Graduate School of Education celebrates and looks ahead. 

by Jacob Sweet

Harvard President Bacow on University in Contentious Times

President Bacow on the challenges to higher education in a polarized era

by John S. Rosenberg

Houghton unveils TS Eliot letter about his muse Emily Hale

A bombshell letter from modernist poet T.S. Eliot, 50 years after his death

by Lydialyle Gibson

Harvard Professor Accused of Misleading Government Investigators

Friedman University Professor charged with lying about research ties to China

by Jonathan Shaw

A Gut Renovation for U.S. Labor Law

A Harvard Law School initiative calls for rewriting labor law “to shift power from corporations to workers.” 

by Marina N. Bolotnikova

Negatively Curved Crystals

A Harvard mathematician’s “interwoven tapestries” help make the infinite visible.

by Drew Pendergrass