University News

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

Harvard Funds Student “Bridges” Projects

Eight new initiatives to build community on campus will get underway early next year. 

by Lydialyle Gibson

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

Human impact on New England ecology was minimal before Europeans arrived

Before Europeans arrived in New England, local ecology was driven by climate shifts, not by human interventions.

by Jonathan Shaw

Harvard Overseer election and divestment

The spring-semester agenda on climate-change advocacy takes shape—on campus and beyond.

by John S. Rosenberg

Astronomers name interstellar “ripple” the “Radcliffe Wave”

The massive “Radcliffe Wave” traces a new map of the sky.

by Bennett McIntosh

While You Were Away

End-of-semester news and fun from around campus

by John S. Rosenberg

Harvard Allston Commercial Developer Chosen

The Allston Land Company designates Tishman Speyer to develop the “enterprise research campus” on Western Avenue, with detailed plans yet to come. 

by John S. Rosenberg , Jonathan Shaw

Harvard graduate students go on strike

HGSU-UAW members go out on strike two days before reading period. 

by Marina N. Bolotnikova