Campus & Community
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Boston, Harvard announce affordable housing funding
Nearly 100 units to be created in Allston
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Harvard University Housing establishes new rents for 2025–2026
Increase on average 5% for renewing tenants
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Harvard partners with national nonprofit to recruit high-achieving low-income students
First QuestBridge Scholars will matriculate in fall 2026
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Jodie Foster to receive Radcliffe Medal
Will be recognized for her barrier-breaking career
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New VP named for alumni affairs and development
James J. Husson returns to Harvard to succeed Brian K. Lee this spring
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Cynthia Erivo is Hasty’s Woman of the Year
‘Wicked’ star will receive Pudding Pot on Feb. 5
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Spreading gospel — and strategies — of productive disagreement
Eric Beerbohm looks back on successes, challenges of first year of new Civil Discourse initiative
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Alumni donations drive progress in Economics Department
Gifts support professorships, spaces in future Pritzker Hall
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Alumni committee announces Harvard board candidates
Voting for Overseers and HAA elected directors starts April 1
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Jon Hamm named Man of the Year
Hasty Pudding to honor award-winning actor on Jan. 31
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Martin Karplus, pioneering figure in theoretical chemistry, dies at 94
Nobel Prize winner helped transform understanding of molecular systems
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Natural Black hair, and why it matters
With deep significance for identity, choice, even legality, it’s more than just a woman’s crowning glory
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Voice of a generation? Dylan’s is much more than that.
Classics professor who wrote ‘Why Bob Dylan Matters’ on the challenge of capturing a master of creative evasion
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Universal, adaptable, wearable, vulnerable
‘On Display Harvard’ uses performance, zip ties, to bring attention to the UN’s International Day of Persons With Disabilities
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Three Harvard students named Marshall Scholars
‘Chance of a lifetime’ for recipients whose fields include history, genomics, K-12 education
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Seeing is believing
Personal and global history made Jeremy Weinstein want to change the world. As dean of the Kennedy School, he’s found the perfect place to do it.
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Life stories with a beat you can dance to
Renowned actress and tap dancer Ayodele Casel premieres her autobiographical musical at A.R.T.
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Reckoning with past, striving for better future
Street at Arnold Arboretum renamed Flora Way to honor enslaved woman
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Garber installed as Harvard’s 31st president
Friends and family, colleagues honor leader who ‘radiates trustworthiness’
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Corporation strengthens engagement to inform support of research and teaching, presidential search in 2026
Pritzker expresses optimism on efforts to bring community together
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Why I changed my mind
Harvard students describe a time they saw the world in a new light
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Helen Vendler, 90
At a meeting of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences on Dec. 3, 2024, the following tribute to the life and service of the late Helen Vendler was spread upon the permanent records of the Faculty.
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Not so much the form, but the function
Brutalist, iconic Gund Hall undergoes 1st major renovation since opening in ’72. Now, hopefully, the roof will stop leaking.
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Updating their 3-word bios
Juniors who talked to us when they first arrived here — and again as sophomores — reflect on how they’ve changed
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Rhodes scholars share their Oxford ambitions
8 students to pursue social, political, computational sciences
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He didn’t come all this way to lose to Yale
Dream job and a winning season for Aurich, but one big test remains: The Game.
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Ketanji Brown Jackson? Present!
Supreme Court justice revisits Michael Sandel’s class, which left her with lessons that lasted long beyond her time in it as first-year
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Harvard, MIT, Mass General form renewable energy collaboration
Group will include higher education, healthcare, and cultural institutions, seek to leverage buying power to advance cost-effective, green production projects
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Culture Lab Innovation Fund grants awarded to 12 projects
Grant recipients foster a culture of innovation and belonging on Harvard campus
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8 Harvard students named Rhodes Scholars
5 in U.S. class, most for any institution, joined by 3 international recipients
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Dale Weldeau Jorgenson, 89
Memorial Minute — Faculty of Arts and Sciences
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Otto Thomas Solbrig, 92
Memorial Minute — Faculty of Arts and Sciences
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When your goal is literally sky-high — and you reach it
Third-generation military, Faith Schmidt ’25 is set to soar
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The long Crimson line
Number of armed services veterans at Harvard on the rise as University ramps up outreach, support
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Time for ‘emergence of a new and better democracy’
Civil rights attorney and Howard professor Sherrilyn Ifill details need for national reckoning, greater civic involvement
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From the forest to a leaf
New Herbaria director studies plants via satellite and microscope for insights on changing planet