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A.R.T. announces 2025/26 season programming
American Repertory Theater (A.R.T.) at Harvard University, led by Terrie and Bradley Bloom Artistic Director Diane Paulus and Executive Director Kelvin Dinkins Jr., announced Thursday its 2025/26 Season programming. In…
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EdRedesign announces 2025-26 Institute for Success Planning Community of Practice
Fifteen cross-sector teams from across the country committed to building a future where every young person is known, seen, and supported through Success Planning.
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Enhancing resilience of Europe’s civilian health systems as conflict with Russia escalates
In response to escalating tensions between NATO and the Russian Federation, leading scholars and practitioners in global security, public health, economics, and health systems convened at the Harvard Global Health…
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Thinking With Plants and Fungi: Celebrating the voices of the more-than-human world
When hundreds gathered at the Harvard Divinity School in May for a three-day conference on the sentient lives of plants and fungi, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Emily Dickinson, Henry David Thoreau,…
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Feyaad Allie picked for CIFAR Azrieli Global Scholars program
Feyaad Allie, assistant professor of government, has been selected to join a prestigious group of researchers tackling some of the world’s most urgent challenges. The Canadian Institute for Advanced Research,…
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Harvard Extension Alumni Association celebrates award winners
The Harvard Extension Alumni Association honored its 2024 Alumni Award recipients for their extraordinary achievements and service at its annual Alumni Banquet in the historic Annenberg Hall on May 27.…
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Sixteen faculty named Cabot Fellows
Sixteen professors in Harvard’s Faculty of Arts and Sciences have been named Walter Channing Cabot Fellows. The annual awards honor faculty members for their accomplishments in the areas of literature,…
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HBS Celebrates 115th Commencement
Harvard Business School (HBS) held its 115th Commencement exercises Thursday with a diploma ceremony on its campus in Boston. After an all-University celebration in Harvard’s Tercentenary Theatre in the morning,…
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HBS professors receive Wyss Awards for Excellence in Mentoring Doctoral Students
Harvard Business School (HBS) has announced the recipients of the 2025 Wyss Awards for Excellence in Mentoring Doctoral Students. Professor Elie Ofek and Assistant Professor Maria Roche have been selected for their work in…
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Harvard Business School’s MBA Class of 2025 celebrates Class Day
All 929 members of the Harvard Business School (HBS) MBA Class of 2025 gathered at Baker Lawn under clear skies to celebrate Class Day on Wednesday. Taking place the day…
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Mossavar-Rahmani Center announces 2025 Dunlop Undergraduate Thesis Prize winner
The Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government (M-RCBG) at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government is pleased to announce the 2025 winner of the John T. Dunlop Undergraduate Thesis Prize in…
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Four Business School faculty receive Class of 2025 Faculty Teaching Award honors
Students from the Harvard Business School graduating Class of 2025 honored four faculty members with Faculty Teaching Awards. Rawi Abdelal, Edward (Ted) Berk, Meg Rithmire, and Andy Wu were recognized…
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James Bedford wins Dean’s Award for service to the School and society
James Bedford, from the Harvard Business School’s M.B.A. Class of 2025, has been named the recipient of the Dean’s Award. This prestigious award celebrates the extraordinary achievements of a graduating…
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Harvard Business School announces 2025-2026 Leadership Fellows
Harvard Business School has announced the 2025-2026 cohort of its Leadership Fellows Program. The program is based on University Professor Michael Porter’s vision of developing a network of HBS graduates with…
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Harvard leaders receive Inspire Awards
Two Harvard leaders, Caroline Fernald, executive director of the Harvard Museums of Science and Culture, and Carrie Moore, the Kathy Delaney-Smith Head Coach For Harvard Women’s Basketball, were honored by…
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Jessica Stern appointed senior fellow at Carr-Ryan Center for Human Rights
The Carr-Ryan Center for Human Rights at the Harvard Kennedy School is proud to announce the appointment of Jessica Stern as senior fellow. She will be the first senior fellow…
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Tarun Khanna leaves lasting legacy on India and South Asia at Harvard
When Tarun Khanna took over the South Asia Initiative 15 years ago, there was one staff member, a small office in CGIS South, and almost no faculty involvement from around…
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Diana L. Eck named next director of Lakshmi Mittal and Family South Asia Institute
John F. Manning and Hopi H. Hoekstra announced earlier this year that Diana L. Eck, professor of Comparative Religion and Indian Studies, Emerita, and Frederic Wertham Research Professor of Law…
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HBS, HKS professors win award for best health economics paper
Marcella Alsan, Joshua Schwartzstein, and their co-authors have been honored with the Arrow Award for their paper, “Representation and Extrapolation: Evidence from Clinical Trials.”
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Get to know HBS Class Day student speaker Chris Hood
Chris Hood, M.B.A. ’25, has been selected as the student speaker for Harvard Business School’s (HBS) Class Day celebration on May 28. Class Day honors graduating students and typically takes…
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From saints to serpents: HDS students win 2025 Buechner Prize
As the academic year comes to a close, Harvard Divinity School (HDS) announces that Tess Dufrechou, M.Div. ’25, and Kat Woodard, M.Div. ’25, have received the 2025 Frederick Buechner Prize.…
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With ‘Lunch and Learn,’ Kempner offers new forum for collaboration
Kempner Research Fellow Ilenna Jones studies dendrites, exploring how the computational properties of these structures in biological neurons can contribute to the next generation of brain-inspired AI. Alongside this research…
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EdRedesign announces second cohort of By All Means Senior Fellows
EdRedesign, based at the Harvard Graduate School of Education (HGSE), is proud to announce the second cohort of By All Means Senior Fellows, a visiting fellowship initiative launched in 2023…
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Sanes elected to Royal Society
Joshua Sanes, the Jeff C. Tarr Professor of Molecular and Cellular Biology, has been named a Fellow of the Royal Society, one of the oldest and most esteemed scientific bodies…
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Stuart Schreiber receives 2025 Welch Award
Stuart L. Schreiber, Morris Loeb Professor of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Emeritus will be a co-recipient of the 2025 Robert A. Welch Award in Chemistry for his research in the…
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Hutchins Center announces 13th class of W.E.B. Du Bois Research Institute Fellows
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…
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Pivotal role of reinforcement learning in modern large language models
The explosion of modern AI, exemplified by the unprecedented abilities of large language models (LLMs), was enabled by a family of computational techniques known as machine learning (ML). But how…
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Davis Center panelists discuss cultural memory in Ukraine after years of Russian denial
In the 1920s, Volodymyr Vynnychenko had just arrived in France when a police representative, handing the Ukrainian writer his right-of-residence papers, stated that Ukraine “n’existe pas” in the eyes of…
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Kathleen Coleman awarded new Faculty Prize for Excellence in General Education
Harvard’s Program in General Education has awarded the inaugural Faculty Prize for Excellence in General Education to James Loeb Professor of Classics Kathleen Coleman for her course Gen Ed 1131:…
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25 Allston-Brighton nonprofits receive Harvard Allston Partnership Fund grants
In a gathering at the Harvard Ed Portal last week, University leaders, including President Alan Garber and Executive Vice President Meredith Weenick, joined Kairos Shen, chief of planning for the…