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.

Thomas Fel, a research fellow at the Kempner Institute, wants to help solve what he describes as one of the most fascinating puzzles of our generation — understanding the inner workings of AI models, and uncovering the mathematical principles that underlie their abilities.

When the COVID-19 pandemic spread across the globe in 2020, Harvard Law School alum Earl Martin Phalen ’93 wanted to do his part to address the increase in job loss and financial instability through his organization Skilled US.

Nobel laureate Claudia Goldin is receiving the American Academy of Arts and Sciences’ 2026 Talcott Parsons Prize.

The Graduate Commons Program (GCP) at Harvard University Housing will say goodbye this spring to Faculty Directors Nancy Hill (HGSE) and Rendall Howell, as they begin their new chapter in Currier House as FAS faculty dean.

The Kempner Institute for the Study of Natural and Artificial Intelligence at Harvard University is pleased to announce the 2026 Kempner Institute Accelerator Awards request for proposals. 

Analysis of 1.6 million patents finds that early-20th-century research labs and professional engineers sparked a surge in novel inventions and reshaped who innovates — and where.

Leonard Zon, professor of Stem Cell and Regenerative Biology and director of the Stem Cell Research Program at Boston Children’s Hospital, has won 2026 March of Dimes Richard B Johnston Jr., MD Prize from the March of Dimes for his pioneering work in hematology and stem cell biology.

Four Harvard students are among the 26 selected to be part of the 2026 class of Gates Cambridge Scholars at the University of Cambridge.