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 May during the Harvard Arts Festival. “Davóne has reshaped the field of opera, expanding representation, diversifying stories, integrating new music genres, framing opera as a…

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 Award for Environmental Partnership. Through collaborations with consumer product manufacturers, retailers, chemical suppliers, NGOs, and trade groups, ChemFORWARD compiles and maintains a repository of verified…

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 Harvard undergraduate students funding for term-time research supervised by Kempner-affiliated faculty during the fall and spring semesters of the academic year.  Eighteen students were awarded…

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 will bring together experts from across the globe and from within Harvard University to discuss some of the most pressing issues around global health. The…

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 a phone camera and a spirit of open curiosity, they were invited to explore two reflection prompts as part of “Thinking Through Photography,” a workshop…

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 in science and in art, often emerges in unforeseen ways.  As a professional neuroscientist and artist, Deza combines his expertise in the science of vision…

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, insight, and resources to significantly accelerate this work. The founding board members will be joined in the coming months and years by additional leaders from…

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 this year’s honoree. The award, which recognizes leaders with a profound impact on society and contributions to the fields of arts, sciences, and humanities, comes…

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 of Harvard University’s Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies (CES) and The Center for Hellenic Studies (CHS) during the spring 2025 academic term. “We…

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 the creation of new knowledge, and contribute to the development of sustainable solutions. Projects focused on three main research categories: energy transition and energy policy;…

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 of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS), Li was honored for “fundamental contributions to control, learning, and optimization of cyber-physical systems and application to biomedical and energy…

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, or even brave passersby! It’s the newest addition to Harvard’s popular WinterFest program which also features fire pits, outdoor games, and music! Take a ride…

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 Scholarship funds one year of master’s study in science, math, or engineering at the University of Cambridge. Hodges will pursue a one-year M.A.St. in pure…

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. Taeku is the Bae Family Professor of Government at Harvard University, having joined the University in 2022 as part of the ethnicity, indigeneity, and migration…

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 media age. What is vital in today’s media-centric landscape is the art of writing with the eyes of the reader in mind. Bearing this reality…

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 for her research into arithmetic statistics and spanning probability, random groups, arithmetic geometry, algebraic geometry, topology, and number theory. According to a statement released by…

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 next phase of the Harvard & the Legacy of Slavery Initiative, American Ancestors — which has been conducting the genealogical research on behalf 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 a new study, published last month in the journal Current Biology, researchers describe a 555-million-year-old worm-like organism beautifully preserved in the rocks of Nilpena Ediacara…

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. Blow will serve as the inaugural recipient of the initiative.   The fellowship, which will support scholars and artists whose work “embodies the spirit of…

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 for Brain Science (CBS). In addition to her appointments within the Kempner Institute and CBS, Chung will hold a faculty position as assistant professor of…

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 to study disease patterns while protecting patient privacy. Computer scientist Cynthia Dwork has had a hand in all of it. Dwork, the Gordon McKay Professor of Computer…

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 Treehouse, managed through Harvard Common Spaces and Harvard Real Estate, will serve as a “front door” to the growing Enterprise Research Campus. It will accommodate…

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 Schwarzman College, Tsinghua University in Beijing, starting in August 2025.   Scholars are selected through a competitive application process designed to identify leadership potential, intellect, and…

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. The course, “Walking the Inland Sea: Desert Contemplation and Great Salt Lake,” examined the ecological, economic, spiritual, and artistic imprint of the lake and the…

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 to teach classes and mentor students as Richard M. and Ronay A. Menschel Senior Leadership Fellows at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.…