The Graduate Commons Program at Harvard University Housing will say good-bye to Faculty Directors Chris and Nancy Winship this May after nine years. Professor Winship retired from the classroom last…

Elizabeth Perry’s childhood love of reading and writing has stuck around. That passion led her first to a journalism career, and later to roles in federal agencies in which she…

Award-winning conceptual artist and philosopher Adrian Margaret Smith Piper, A.M. ’77, Ph.D. ’81, is the recipient of the 2023 Harvard Arts Medal, which will be awarded by Harvard University President…

Excerpt from an essay titled “Designing Food Security in Rural Mississippi”  by Charles Shafaieh. For nearly a decade, Mississippi has ranked as America’s hungriest state. Nearly 19 percent of its citizens…

An excerpt from “After the Turkey-Syria Earthquakes, Rethinking Design on Shaky Ground” by Yun Fu, a design critic at Harvard Graduate School of Design. While the recovery is still unfolding…

Harvard scored second place among the winning teams at the 83rd annual William Lowell Putnam Mathematical Competition. Over 3,400 students from more than 450 institutions participated in the highly competitive…

Jerry X. Mitrovica, the Frank Baird Jr. Professor of Science in the Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences has been awarded the 2023 Arthur L. Day Prize and Lectureship for…

In an inaugural University-wide event, Faith & Veritas ’23 will bring together Harvard’s Christian alumni, faculty, and students March 30-April 2 in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Faith & Veritas ’23 is a…

This is an excerpt from “Seeing Ukraine Then and Now,” by Jerold S. Kayden, as it appeared in Harvard Design Magazine. At the time of this writing, Russia’s invasion of…

“Gatsby,” a musical stage adaptation of the legendary F. Scott Fitzgerald novel, will make its world premiere at the American Repertory Theater in 2024. Producers Amanda Ghost and Len Blavatnik…

Meghan L. O’Sullivan, a Harvard Kennedy School professor, former senior national security official, and global thought leader on the geopolitics of energy, has been appointed the Director of the School’s Belfer…

Harvard Business School has announced a new cohort of Executive Fellows who have joined the School for the 2023 spring semester. The Executive Fellows Program seeks to leverage the expertise…

Harvard Business School’s Baker Library has opened a new exhibition that focuses on the history of one of the most infamous financial crashes. “The South Sea Bubble, 1720: Narratives of…

With the vision of creating a health insurance plan centered on the unique needs of Harvard’s employees, the Harvard University Group Health Plan was created in 1973 by Harvard University…

The Just City Lab at the Harvard Graduate School of Design and the Mayors’ Institute on City Design (MICD) are pleased to announce the launch of the 2023 MICD Just…

Christina Warinner, associate professor in the Department of Anthropology and Sally Starling Seaver Associate Professor at Radcliffe Institute, was named a winner of the 2022 Federation of European Microbiological Societies…

Harvard is a leading producer of Fulbright award winners for 2022-23. A total of 29 students and recent graduates were selected for the prestigious Fulbright U.S. Student program, with each…

Dayron J. Miles has been named the American Repertory Theater’s associate artistic director. The appointment was announced today by Diane Paulus, Terrie and Bradley Bloom Artistic Director of the A.R.T.,…

Higher temperatures were linked to impaired fetal growth, according to a study from Stefania Papatheodorou, lecturer on epidemiology at Harvard Chan School, and colleagues. Papatheodorou discusses the implications of the study—and what pregnant people…

The city of Boston has joined The EdRedesign Lab’s (EdRedesign) By All Means Community of Practice, an initiative that harnesses the power of place-based, cross-sector partnerships to create integrated systems…

A competitive challenge grant program is inspiring student organizations to take action in far-reaching ways, from elevating climate action through a student storytelling symposium to helping unhoused people obtain access…

The Honorable Loretta Lynch ’81, J.D. ’84 will deliver the 2023 Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Commemorative Lecture at Harvard. The annual lecture will be held in October. Lynch served as…

The Corporation Committee on Shareholder Responsibility (CCSR), a committee of the Harvard Corporation, today released its 2021-2022 Annual Report.   The report summarizes the work and activities of the CCSR during…

Danoff Dean of Harvard College Rakesh Khurana announced the appointment of Thomas Dunne as dean of students for the College. He will begin the role June 1. Dunne has served…

Researchers from SHINE and the Human Flourishing Program have published a new paper in Sustainability exploring whether the importance assigned to well-being domains may be associated with actual self-reported well-being…

Harvard University’s Advanced Leadership Initiative (ALI) announced the selection of its 2023 fellowship cohort, which is notable for its significant international representation and gender diversity.  The fellowship cohort is comprised…

Seven Harvard affiliates were named recipients of the Schwarzman Scholarship in December. The eighth cohort of the prestigious award will attend Beijing’s Tsinghua University for a yearlong master’s degree program…