The board of directors of the Paul & Daisy Soros Fellowships for New Americans announced the program’s 2023 fellows on April 25. The 30 new fellows, including 12 with connections to Harvard, were chosen from a pool of nearly 2,000 applicants from across the U.S.   “Immigrants, asylum seekers, and refugees have and continue to…

Curiosity drives Nazli Ugur Koyluoglu. Koyluoglu, an inaugural member of Harvard’s Ph.D. program in quantum science and engineering who works at the intersection of quantum information and many-body physics, has been named the first recipient of a Harvard Frontier Fellowship, funded through a generous gift from Hartley Rogers ’81, M.B.A. ’85 and Amy Falls, M.P.P.…

Raymond J. McGuire, J.D./M.B.A. ’84, current president of financial services company Lazard, and the former vice chairman of Citigroup, will be Harvard Business School’s Class Day Speaker on Wednesday, May 24, 2023. The ceremony will take place on Baker Lawn on the School’s campus in Boston and will include a welcome from the co-presidents of…

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 in their fields and who exemplify the mission, highest standards, and values of the School. As role models of outstanding leadership for HBS’ graduating…

Harvard Business School (HBS) announced the appointment of Katia Walsh to the role of chief digital officer (CDO), effective April 10. As CDO, she will oversee the growth of a newly established technology function that builds and scales world-leading capabilities in digital products, data strategy and architecture, analytics, and machine learning engineering and AI. This…

It was a day of firsts at the opening celebration for the Bloomberg Center for Cities at Harvard University. The center is the first of its kind in uniting cities-focused expertise. It’s the first in the world to focus on strengthening hundreds of local governments and their leadership on a global scale. And it was the…

Harvard senior Jeromel Dela Rosa Lara immigrated with his mother from the Philippines to the U.S. in 2011. Lara studies social anthropology and the comparative study of religion. His thesis focuses on the experience of Filipina migrant domestic workers. As a member of the Harvard Museums of Science & Culture marketing team, Lara arranged for…

As a young child, Octavious Smiley would look forward to his older sister coming back from school and teaching him what she had learned in math class. He also remembers always wanting to pursue a doctorate degree. “I was interested in the Ph.D. before I even knew what it was. It was just the highest…

David Bloom, the Clarence James Gamble Professor of Economics and Demography at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, is the recipient of the 2023 Irene B. Taeuber Award. Presented every other year by the Population Association of America (PAA), the Taeuber Award recognizes “unusually original or important contributions to the scientific study of…

Harvard has unveiled the Mignone Center for Career Success in recognition of the ongoing support of Allison Hughes Mignone ’94, M.B.A. ’99 and Roberto A. Mignone ’92, M.B.A. ’96. The newly named center, formerly known as the Office of Career Services, hosted a reception to recognize the couple’s gift, which will bolster career services, strengthen…

The Mittal Institute is delighted to announce the selection of Nilima Sheikh as the inaugural Distinguished Artist Fellow (DAF). Sheikh, a renowned painter based in Baroda, India, will be in residence at the institute on the Harvard campus from April 17–27. On April 22, she will deliver the prestigious Norma Jean Calderwood Lecture at the…

Harvard philosopher Susanna Siegel has been awarded a 2023 Guggenheim Fellowship to support her work studying vigilantism and political vision.  Siegel, the Edgar Pierce Professor of Philosophy in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, is one of 171 fellows from across the U.S. and Canada who were chosen by the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation this year,…

When Americo Mendoza-Mori was asked to serve as faculty chair of the eighth annual Scholarship and Social Justice Conference, he imagined a forum where academia inspires activism.  As faculty director of the Latinx Studies Working Group and a scholar representing Harvard University’s Ethnicity, Migration, Rights program, Mendoza-Mori convened a team of four outstanding scholars to share…

Harvard Business School’s Institute for the Study of Business in Global Society (BiGS) today announced a cohort of five visiting scholars who will focus exclusively on climate, deepening the School’s commitment to accelerating research aimed at mitigating and adapting to global climate change. “We are delighted to welcome our second cohort of BiGS Visiting Fellows to…

American Repertory Theater (A.R.T.) at Harvard University announced Wednesday that the theater will develop Julia Riew’s musical “Dive,” previously known as “Shimcheong: A Folktales.” “Stop Kiss” playwright Diana Son and Tony Award-winning director Diane Paulus join Fred Ebb Award winner Riew on the expanding creative team that will center Asian American voices. Audiences are encouraged…

For Briana Acosta and Yvette Cho, the inequities that plague the U.S. healthcare system are personal. Both Acosta and Cho, master of public health students at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, saw the impacts of healthcare inequities in their own families and communities throughout childhood — even if they couldn’t articulate what was wrong at the time.…

At the intersection of where new meets old, and style meets sustainability, you will find Harvard Divinity School’s recently renovated main campus building — Swartz Hall. The elegant addition bridges the space between the original, century-old chapel and the new student classrooms and event space in a way that is at once modern and traditional.…

Artificial intelligence (AI) has the power to change medicine and public health for the better, according to Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health’s Andrew Beam. But there’s also a need to proceed with caution in using this powerful tool, he said. Beam, assistant professor of epidemiology, is playing a key role in two companion efforts from…

The Office of the Vice Provost for Research and the Office of the Vice Provost for International Affairs are pleased to announce the results of the 2023 competition for awards from the Lemann Brazil Research Fund. “We were once again greatly impressed with the strength of the applicants, who represent diverse areas of scholarship across…

Each year, Student Affairs Administrators in Higher Education (NASPA) holds its annual conference to bring together student affairs professionals from around the country. Ahead of this year’s conference, which was held in Boston from April 1-5, Harvard was chosen to host the Administrators in Graduate and Professional Student Services (AGAPSS) Preconference. Sunday’s preconference welcomed student affairs staff…

The Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology (FASEB) today awarded Paola Arlotta, the Golub Family Professor of Stem Cell and Regenerative Biology at Harvard University, with its Excellence in Science Mid-career Investigator Award. An eminent scientist who focuses on understanding the molecular laws that govern the development of the cerebral cortex, she is a…

The Kempner Institute for the Study of Natural and Artificial Intelligence at Harvard announced the appointment of Demba Ba, Talia Konkle, Cengiz Pehlevan, and Haim Sompolinsky as the institute’s inaugural cohort of associate faculty. The newly appointed associate faculty, who will help shape the Kempner Institute’s educational and research priorities, will begin their three-year terms…

Throughout the pandemic, Phillips Brooks House Association’s Summer Urban Program (SUP) sustained critical programming, supporting the social and emotional needs of hundreds of Greater Boston area youth.  The re-emergence of campus celebrations brings a familiar tradition back just in time for a landmark anniversary.  On April 20, PBHA will be hosting the 20th Annual SUP…

Brian Trelstad, senior lecturer of business administration and Joseph L. Rice III Faculty Fellow at Harvard Business School, will become the next faculty chair of the Harvard Advanced Leadership Initiative (ALI) beginning this month. In his new position, Trelstad will succeed Meredith Rosenthal, C. Boyden Gray Professor of Health Economics and Policy at the Harvard…

Harvard Business School’s (HBS) Klarman Hall was packed to capacity Thursday, with spectators there to support the 12 student finalist teams competing in the finale of the 26th annual HBS New Venture Competition (NVC). At stake was $225,000 in cash plus in-kind prizes to fund the startups. The top prize in the Student Business Track and Student Social Enterprise Track was…

Stronger regulations lowering levels of fine particulate air pollutants (PM2.5) would benefit the health of all Americans, but Black Americans and low-income Americans would likely reap the most benefits, including a lower risk of premature death, according to a new study led by Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. “The EPA is currently considering stronger rules…

On Feb. 24 2022, Russia initiated a full-scale invasion of Ukraine, displacing millions of residents and disrupting every aspect of daily life. According to estimates from the Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine, over 2,600 educational institutions have been damaged and over 400 have been destroyed. One year later, millions of Ukrainian students remain…

On March 4, Harvard Business School student-led teams pitched their startups to 88 judges in the first round of the HBS 2023 New Venture Competition (NVC) Business Track, managed by the School’s Rock Center for Entrepreneurship. Sixteen semifinalist teams were selected to move on to the next round, and from that group, eight finalists were invited to…

Addressing Harvard University’s legacy of slavery will require genuinely listening to the concerns of descendants of people who were enslaved, making them full partners in decision-making about ways to address the harms done, and avoiding making assumptions about what they need or want. Those are some of the top takeaways from a series of community discussions that…