William W. Robinson, the Maida and George Abrams curator of drawings, emeritus, at the Harvard Art Museums, a leading authority on northern European drawings, has passed away at the age…

The Harvard Foundation for Intercultural and Race Relations and the Pluralism Project hosted the Harvard premiere of the award-winning short film on interfaith collaboration, “Abraham’s Bridge,” directed by Pluralism Project…

Harvard’s Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology hosted its third annual undergraduate research symposium, showcasing its undergraduates’ state-of-the-art research projects and honoring the historic contributions of CCB professor and renowned…

This spring semester, the Harvard Divinity School community explored the ways love is understood and practiced across different faith traditions. Building on the conversations that took place during the 2023-24…

Harvard College senior Soy Choi and Harvard Kenneth C. Griffin Graduate School of Arts and Sciences student Ananthan Sadagopan were among the 19 recipients of the 2025 Hertz Fellowship in…

What is the logic underlying human and animal intelligence? This is the motivating question behind the research of Samuel J. Gershman, a Kempner Institute associate faculty member and professor in…

Before coming to Harvard, Laura Sophie Wegner ’25, an undergrad with a concentration in economics and a secondary in computer science, was a competitive swimmer in high school in her…

Nine Harvard faculty members were among the 120 national members and 30 international members appointed to the National Academy of Sciences in recognition of distinguished and ongoing achievements in original…

Following the decade-long Mexican Revolution, which profoundly reshaped the nation’s identity, muralism became an educational and ideological tool. Public spaces were transformed into visual narratives to forge a shared national…

LabXchange, an initiative of Harvard University’s Vice Provost for Advances in Learning, will collaborate with the Indian Institute of Science (IISc) Talent Development Centre (TDC) to empower 8,000 Indian science…

Five projects have been selected as the 2025 awardees for the Motsepe Presidential Research Accelerator Fund for Africa, announced by the Office of the Vice Provost for Research and the…

Harvard University Dining Services (HUDS) is excited to announce that Harvard University has won the 2025 Greenest University Award from the Green Restaurant Association. Harvard University has 19 Certified Green…

For over a century, the Cambrian arthropod Helmetia expansa remained a mystery. Discovered by paleontologist Charles Doolittle Walcott in 1918, it was initially classified as a crustacean. Despite frequent mentions…

Many of the skills that humans consider intelligent involve conscious effort, including prediction, long-term planning, and abstract problem solving. Movement, by contrast, is something most people take for granted. It…

Twenty Harvard University faculty are among the nearly 250 members elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the academy announced on Wednesday. Since 1780, the American Academy of…

It was a moment Parastoo Khoshakhlagh vividly recalls. At the time, she was a postdoctoral fellow in Professor George Church’s lab at Harvard Medical School, working to rapidly create oligodendrocytes…

The Documentary Film in the Public Interest Initiative at Harvard Kennedy School’s Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy announced the honorees for the inaugural Henry Awards for Public…

Ashley Adirika ’26, a government concentrator with a secondary in sociology, and Eva Frazier ’26, a social studies concentrator with a secondary in ethnicity, migration, rights, were named 2025 Truman…

The practice of pilgrimage often involves a journey into an unknown land, undertaken by individuals seeking to discover new understanding and meaning through the portal of experience. In six intensive…

Three Harvard affiliates were awarded Guggenheim Fellowships this week, winning support for groundbreaking work in sociology, Jewish studies, and sculpture. Professor of Sociology Christopher Muller, M.A. ’11, Ph.D. ’14, will…

For the last decade, the Scholarship and Social Justice Undergraduate Research Conference has been a platform to uplift undergraduate students’ research focused on challenges facing society. The event, co-sponsored by…

A key goal of neuroscience is understanding how the brain processes disparate streams of information from both the external world and from within the body. When neuroscientists measure activity within…

Global health experts from across Harvard University and around the world gathered at the 2025 Global Health Symposium on April 10 to address some of the most critical issues in global health.…

On March 30, the Let’s Talk! Conference, an initiative promoting the success and well-being of Asian and Asian American students, hosted legendary journalist Connie Chung at Askwith Hall. The event,…

Harvard Business School (HBS) has announced that five distinguished graduates will receive the School’s highest honor, the Alumni Achievement Award. The award is given annually to recognize alumni who are leaders…

John Rice, M.B.A. ’92, founder and CEO of Management Leadership for Tomorrow (MLT), a nationally recognized nonprofit dedicated to increasing economic mobility and building inclusive, meritocratic workplaces, will be the…

Marcella Alsan has been named to the list, which recognizes the world’s most influential people in the health sciences and life sciences fields.

The Office of the Vice Provost for Research and the Office of the Vice Provost for International Affairs are pleased to announce the awardees from the 2025 cycle of the…