Eight Harvard faculty are among the 252 new members elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the academy announced on Wednesday.

On April 3, the Center for the Study of World Religions (CSWR) hosted a screening of Episode 2 and a panel discussion at Harvard’s Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, bringing together leading Thoreau scholars, directors Erik Ewers and Christopher Loren Ewers, and producer Susan Shumaker.

At the 2026 Global Health Symposium, hosted by the Harvard Global Health Institute (HGHI) on April 16, policymakers, practitioners, academics, and students gathered around a central idea: achieving global health equity in an age of scarcity requires moving from fragmented systems to shared responsibility.

Kang-Kuen Ni has been named a Brown Investigator, which is a cohort that is recognized for bold, curiosity-driven research in physics and chemistry.

Annual Rob Lue Memorial Lecture on Axolotls highlights the value of basic scientific research.

A.R.T.’s 2026/27 Season will include a world premiere rock opera; an award-winning hip-hop musical; and Diane Paulus’ final production at the Loeb Drama Center, a new adaptation of a timely classic.

World-renowned cellist Yo-Yo Ma ’76 and the Harvard University Choir are releasing a series of four video performances this month—a collaboration that began with a post-service conversation at the Memorial Church and culminated in a magical three-hour recording session last May.

The HBR Prize, judged by an independent panel of business and academic leaders with input from members of HBR’s Advisory Board, spotlights the most outstanding article published each year in Harvard Business Review. 

The creators of the Peabody Award-nominated podcast “When We All Get to Heaven” will be the focus of this year’s William Belden Noble Lecture at the Memorial Church on April 16 at 6 p.m.

Harvard alumni and key figures of the American Revolution, John Adams, Samuel Adams, and John Hancock, all signed the Declaration of Independence.

With the recent approval of its first three projects under Living Future’s rigorous Living Building Challenge Core Green Building Certification, Harvard not only received recognition for its restoration efforts, but marked the success of three pilot renovations that emphasized holistic sustainability—paving the way to scale this work to future campus renovations.

The third annual Student Wellbeing Week, organized by the Student Wellbeing Council, kicks off Monday.

In a conversation with Gosia Sklodowska, CSWR executive director, Nicole Bauer reflected on how attitudes toward sleep and dreams have changed over time, why lucid dreaming is drawing new interest, and what may be lost when sleep is reduced to mere maintenance.

The Harvard Graduate School of Education announced that Mychal Threets, widely known as “The Internet’s Librarian,” will deliver its 2026 Convocation address.

When Harvard Medical School and Mass General Hospital’s Ingrid Bassett, M.D. ’00, M.P.H. ’07, began her public service leave at the Massachusetts Department of Public Health (DPH), she set out to try something new.

Harvard University Dining Services and the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health hosted “The Mediterranean and Greek Diet: From Research to Plate” on March 17.

A team of Harvard researchers has created an online platform to explore whether AI systems, or “agents,” can leverage the same process to advance scientific ideas and conduct new research.

Creating new therapeutics for neurodegenerative diseases, building AI and data infrastructure in Africa, and turning organic waste into valuable farming resources are three of the 25 startup initiatives that have been recognized as finalists in the 2026 Harvard President’s Innovation Challenge.

Harvard Business School (HBS) announces a new cohort of Executive Fellows for the 2026 spring semester.

American Repertory Theater (A.R.T.) at Harvard University announced that it will incorporate an original Harvard Square brick into the construction of its new home, the David E. and Stacey L. Goel Center for Creativity & Performance.

The Office of the Vice Provost for Research (OVPR) and Office of the Vice Provost for International Affairs (OVPIA) has announced the next phase of funding for the Lemann Brazil…

Within the framework of the CELAC–Africa High-Level Forum, held in Bogotá from March 18–21 under the auspices of Colombia’s Vice President Francia Elena Márquez Mina, the Afro-Latin American Research Institute at Harvard University (ALARI) and CAF – Development Bank of Latin America and the Caribbean signed a Memorandum of Understanding aimed at strengthening knowledge production…

The Harvard Business School (HBS) Rock Center for Entrepreneurship recently hosted their annual Demo Day at the Rock Venture Leadership Dinner, a signature gathering bringing together emerging founders, faculty, investors, alumni, and…

The Kempner Institute’s AI cluster, already one of the fastest AI supercomputers in the world, is undergoing a major expansion, adding more than 500 NVIDIA graphics processing units (GPUs) — the specialized processors that make modern graphics and AI possible — to scale-up its capacity for cutting-edge research on intelligence.

On April 3, the Center for the Study of World Religions will host a special screening of “Henry David Thoreau” and discussion at the Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts.

Harvard Business School’s (HBS) Klarman Hall was the site of the March 5 finale of the annual New Venture Competition (NVC), an opportunity for student founders to pitch their ventures before the HBS community.

In a new paper titled “Neuronal tuning aligns dynamically with object and texture manifolds across the visual hierarchy,” just published in Nature Neuroscience.

The Harvard Global Health Institute (HGHI) invites faculty across Harvard and its affiliated hospitals to submit proposals for forming Scholarly Working Groups (SWG) in Global Health.