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…

Apple phones analyze user data without revealing information about individuals. Google Maps shows how busy public places are without disclosing people’s locations. Researchers query vast troves of sensitive medical records…

Visit the newly launched David Rubenstein Treehouse website to learn more about, and see inside, this architecturally unique building that is rising in Allston. Scheduled to open this fall, the Rubenstein…

Twelve Harvard affiliates are among 150 scholars worldwide chosen as recipients of this year’s Schwarzman Scholarship. The students will complete a one-year, fully-funded master’s degree program in global affairs at…

Over the 2023-24 academic year, Harvard Divinity School Writer-in Residence Terry Tempest Williams and Professor Stephanie Paulsell led 16 students from the classroom to the landscape of Great Salt Lake through a year-long seminar.…

Ashwin Vasan, until recently the health commissioner for New York City, and Marcia Fudge, until recently the U.S. secretary for Housing and Urban Development, will be on campus this spring…

The Growth Lab’s research agenda continues to span multiple continents, addressing critical economic growth and development challenges across diverse regions. Our researchers have focused on pressing issues, including water sustainability,…

Orlando Patterson, the John Cowles Professor of Sociology, was honored last week with the 2024 Hegel Prize at a ceremony in Stuttgart, Germany. Named for 19th-century philosopher Georg Wilhelm Friedrich…

Harvard’s Center for the Study of World Religions invited the world to a two-day groundbreaking summit on the life and work of 20th-century mystic and spiritual teacher George Ivanovich Gurdjieff,…

Venturing outdoors during heatwaves may become deadly for millions of people in a world only slightly warmer than today’s, according to new research that considers the effect of solar radiation,…

The Office of the Vice Provost for Research in partnership with the Harvard College Office of Undergraduate Research and Fellowships pleased to announce the second year of an opportunity for…

The Harvard Center for International Development (CID) is pleased to announce the recipients of the 2024 GEM Incubation Fund. The fund supports emerging research that strives to advance solutions to pressing…

Each year, the Office of the Chaplain and Religious and Spiritual Life invites the Harvard Divinity School community to Seasons of Light. As the nights grow longer and the days shorter, this annual multireligious service honors…

As new mayors prepare to take the reins in city halls across the country, 24 newly elected U.S. mayors have been selected for the Bloomberg Center for Cities at Harvard…