Harvard Business School (HBS) has announced the 2026 recipients of its Horace W. Goldsmith Fellowships. Established in 1988 by the Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation and Ronay and Richard L. Menschel (MBA 1959), a former director of the foundation and a limited partner at Goldman Sachs, to encourage students from the nonprofit and public sectors to…

The 2026-2027 EIRs, Venture Builders, VCAs, and LSs further strengthen one of the most comprehensive entrepreneurship expert networks in higher education.

HBS has added sculptures by Woody De Othello and Erika Verzutti to the C. Ludens Ringnes Sculpture Collection for a two-year exhibition on its Boston campus.

Harvard students Sophia (Fengrui) He ’27 and Jacqueline Metzger ’27 have been named this year’s David and Mimi Aloian Memorial Scholars.

The Harvard Art Museums have named Jeannie M. Kenmotsu as their new curator of Asian Art.

As part of the annual University of Cambridge – Harvard University Scientific Symposium, in late July, the University of Cambridge hosted a special event to honor the centenary of the birth of celebrated organic chemist and philanthropist Herchel Smith.

Scholars from universities and research institutions across the United States, China, Hong Kong, Macau, and the United Kingdom gathered in Boston on September 2 for the 14th China Development and Governance (CDG) Workshop, a roundtable held in conjunction with the Pre-APSA Annual Meeting.

The Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at Harvard Kennedy School has named Abbie Tingstad as the next director of the Center’s Arctic Initiative. She will begin her tenure in late September, succeeding Jennifer Spence, who has led the Arctic Initiative since March 2024.

The Harvard Alumni Association has named the 2026 recipients of the John P. Reardon Jr. Alumni Award, honoring alumni for outstanding service to Harvard and its community.

As a new academic year gets underway at Harvard, the Advanced Leadership Initiative (ALI) is welcoming 55 senior leaders from around the world who bring decades of experience to the challenge of creating meaningful social change. During the yearlong fellowship, members of the 2027 cohort will draw on their experience across sectors and engage with…

The EdRedesign Lab at the Harvard Graduate School of Education (HGSE) today announced the appointment of Sonali Nijhawan as its inaugural Chief Program Officer

Heidelberg University and Harvard University have announced a second call for proposals for two funding opportunities: the Heidelberg-Harvard Strategic Partnership Grant and Explorer Seed Fund.

Harvard University Information Technology’s Digital Accessibility Services (DAS) hosted the 4th annual University-wide Accessibility Summit on June 4, 2026. The event brought together Harvard faculty and staff for a day of learning and connecting accessibility practitioners to celebrate progress made and highlight work done to drive disability inclusion across the University.

The IOP today announced its Fall Fellows class. The cohort brings experience spanning diplomacy, national security, elected office, public policy and political journalism.

As artificial intelligence (AI) becomes increasingly embedded in health systems worldwide, questions about how these technologies should be governed, evaluated, and implemented have become as consequential as the technologies themselves. Across a four-part virtual discussion series convened by the Harvard Global Health Institute (HGHI) in partnership with the Center for Bioethics at Harvard Medical School this spring, experts from academia, multilateral organizations, government, philanthropy, and…

Recently named the undergraduate poster winner at the Harvard Global Health Institute’s (HGHI) 2026 Student Global Health Research Showcase, and a soon-to-be Fulbright Scholar heading to Germany this fall, Anika Christensen ’26 is poised to tackle some of the world’s most pressing health crises.

This summer, Harvard Global Health Institute (HGHI) Summer Undergraduate Research in Global Health (SURGH) intern Mieti Adi is gaining hands-on laboratory experience at the Rubin Lab at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, where she is contributing to research that could help advance future treatments for tuberculosis (TB).

Harvard Business School (HBS) has named its 2026-27 Blavatnik Fellows. The fellowship offers HBS alumni and Harvard-affiliated postdoctoral researchers the opportunity to advance new life science technology ventures and develop their leadership talents during a 12-month fellowship year. To date, Blavatnik Fellows have founded 50 biomedical companies developing innovations including gene writing technologies, engineered cell therapies,…

Extreme heat is no longer a future climate concern; it is a public health crisis affecting communities around the world. While thousands convened in London for Climate Action Week, one of the year’s largest climate gatherings, Western Europe was simultaneously experiencing its most severe heatwave on record. Once viewed largely as a challenge concentrated in…

Henry Lie, longtime conservator and former director of the Straus Center for Conservation and Technical Studies at the Harvard Art Museums, passed away recently at the age of 72.

Cali, Colombia | July 22–24, 2026 — The Center for Afro-Diasporic Studies (CEAF) at Universidad Icesi and the Afro-Latin American Research Institute (ALARI) at Harvard University will convene the IV Continental Conference on Afro-Latin American Studies, the largest academic gathering dedicated to Afro-Latin American Studies ever held in the region.Bringing together more than 1,500 participants…

Cross-sector leaders from Ohio, Oklahoma, California, Minnesota, and Florida join a community of practice linked to higher graduation rates, increased college enrollment, and greater lifetime earnings.

The Kempner Institute for the Study of Natural and Artificial Intelligence at Harvard has officially announced the appointment of Nada Amin and Sitan Chen as associate faculty members. Amin and Chen are both current Harvard faculty members whose research advances the Kempner Institute’s core scientific mission to understand the basis of natural and artificial intelligence.…

The Harvard Kennedy School Government Performance Lab (GPL) announced the launch of a new program to build durable state capacity to help local governments meet ambitious housing goals. 

Harvard Kennedy School today named Betsy Fischer Martin as the next director of the Institute of Politics (IOP). She will begin her tenure in mid-August, succeeding interim co-directors Beth Myers and Ned Price, who have led the IOP since December 2025.

Boston Latin Academy students participating in Harvard Medical School’s MEDscience program are visited by Massachusetts Health & Human Services Secretary Dr. Kiame Mahaniah

Summit hosted by HSDM brings together leaders from 36 dental schools to identify priorities for the next generation of oral health education.

Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Alphonse Fletcher University Professor and Director of the W.E.B. Du Bois Research Institute at the Hutchins Center for African & African American Research, has announced the 2026-2027 class of fellows.

Harvard Business School (HBS) and the Social Enterprise Initiative announced Rohan P. Bajaj (MBA 2026) and Biruh Demilew (MBA 2026) as recipients of the 2026 Social Entrepreneurship Fellowship.