The term “psychedelics” can conjure surreal images of mind-altering journeys through a mystical realm that connects the body to the soul and the soul to divinity. Dreamlike visions can pave…

The Harvard Global Health Institute (HGHI) announced it is now accepting new proposals for forming Scholarly Working Groups (SWG) in Global Health from faculty across Harvard and its affiliated hospitals. The program aims to create a collaborative environment to promote inter-faculty gatherings where faculty can explore or accelerate research areas in topics critical to the advancement of…

The Harvard Choruses will perform a world premiere of “American Jezebel: The Trial of Anne Hutchinson” Saturday, an opera that tells the story of Puritan midwife and theologian  Anne Hutchinson.…

In celebration of Women’s Week, a new exhibition will feature eight portraits from alumni Stephen Coit ’71 and Robert Shetterly ’69. “Seeing Each Other: A Conversation Between the Harvard Foundation…

Roxane Gay doesn’t get tired of engaging with readers on a variety of topics, but she’s ready to stop defining feminism. The author and social commentator opened up about her…

Davóne Tines ’09, acclaimed operatic bass-baritone, will be the recipient of the 2025 Harvard Arts Medal, which will be awarded by Harvard University President Alan Garber at a spring ceremony in…

Professor Marcella Alsan and the Malcolm Wiener Center for Social Policy have awarded 28 students up to $5,000 each.

The Environment and Natural Resources Program at Harvard Kennedy School’s Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs announced on Monday that ChemFORWARD is the 2024 winner of the Roy Family…

The Kempner Institute for the Study of Natural and Artificial Intelligence at Harvard is pleased to announce the spring 2025 recipients of the Kempner Undergraduate Research Experience (KURE). KURE awards…

The Harvard Global Health Institute (HGHI) announced its third annual Global Health Symposium will take place at Harvard University  April 10-11. Centered on the theme “Delivering on the Promise of Health Equity,” the symposium…

On a frigid January afternoon, students, faculty, staff, and alumni from Harvard Divinity School and Harvard College stepped carefully around the ice and snow surrounding Walden Pond. Accompanied only by…

The Harvard Kennedy School’s Malcolm Wiener Center and Reimagining the Economy Project welcome Dr. Heather Boushey and Dr. Todd Tucker.

With bold brush strokes and vivid blues set against bright whites, Arturo Deza’s paintings, now on display at the Kempner Institute, are a testament to the idea that meaning, both…

The Salata Institute, founded in 2022, is driving Harvard research to develop and promote solutions to the toughest climate challenges. Today, the institute announces a new advisory board with the experience, networks,…

The Vilcek Foundation announced the 2025 recipient of the Vilcek Prize for Excellence in Literary Scholarship on Feb. 3. Alphonse Fletcher University Professor Henry Louis Gates Jr. was named as…

Alexis Tsipras, Greece’s prime minister (2015-2019), who rose to power on an anti-austerity platform during an acute stage of the Eurocrisis, has been appointed as a short-term, resident Policy Fellow…

The Mittal Institute is pleased to announce its first recipients of the Faculty Climate Research Grants. These grants are designed to foster deeper scholarly engagement on climate change in South Asia, catalyze…

Professor Na “Lina” Li has received the 2024 IEEE Control Systems Society Antonio Ruberti Young Researcher Prize. The Winkour Family Professor of Electrical Engineering and Applied Mathematics in the Harvard John A. Paulson School…

Harvard is cranking up the fun this winter as Ice Bumper Cars whiz onto the Science Center Plaza. Join us for zigzagging, bumping, and spinning alongside your friends, fellow students,…

Harvard College student Eliot Hodges ’25 of Denver has been named one of 16 Churchill Scholars for the 2025-26 academic year, the Winston Churchill Foundation announced this month.  The Churchill…

Taeku and Shirley Lee have been named the new faculty deans of Dunster House, Danoff Dean of Harvard College Rakesh Khurana announced Wednesday. They will begin their roles July 1.…

The written word is still the quintessential portal from the academic mind to the research community and beyond through scholarly papers, books, and articles, even in the electronic and social…

Harvard William Caspar Graustein Professor of Mathematics Melanie Matchett Wood was honored with the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE) earlier this month. She received the award…

Harvard University has expanded its existing partnership with American Ancestors, a national center for family history, heritage, and culture, and the oldest genealogical nonprofit in America. As part of the…

A fossil discovery in a remote part of South Australia has shed light on one of evolution’s great mysteries: the origins of Ecdysozoa, Earth’s largest, most species-rich animal group. In…

The Hutchins Center for African & African American Research announced the creation of the Langston Hughes Fellowship on Jan. 17. Journalist, New York Times columnist, and political analyst Charles M.…

The Kempner Institute announced the appointment of SueYeon Chung, Ph.D. ’17, who returns to Harvard as a Kempner Institute Investigator and faculty member in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) Center…