The John Templeton Foundation and the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation has funded the Black Hole Initiative for an additional three year term, until September 2022. This new funding of…

For the past 25 years, Phillips Brooks House has collected gifts and donations during the holiday season for several community-based programs in Cambridge, Somerville, and Boston.  This holiday season, the…

More than 80 artists, instructors, and staff members at the Ceramics Program, Office for the Arts at Harvard are preparing for their annual Ceramics Program Holiday Show and Sale Dec.…

The Harvard Innovation Labs today announced that applications are now open for the 2020 President’s Innovation Challenge, an annual event designed to bring together the Harvard community to work on…

Three Harvard research teams have been recognized by the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative (CZI) with funding to support their open source software projects, considered to be “essential to biomedical research.” These…

International development needs scholars from a variety of backgrounds and the input of practitioners, Nobel Laureate Michael Kremer told the audience at a special event organized by Harvard’s Center for…

On Tuesday, the Harvard Innovation Labs announced the 12 ventures selected to participate in the second annual Launch Lab X program, a nine-month startup accelerator for Harvard alumni-led companies. “When…

Terry Tempest Williams, Harvard Divinity School’s (HDS) writer-in-residence, and film producer Geralyn White Dreyfous have curated a special film series that is open to the Harvard community and to the…

The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH), in partnership with the U.S. Department of Education, has awarded a $650,000 cooperative agreement to a collaborative of experts who will work together…

David Davidson, managing director of Harvard University Dining Services (HUDS), and Crista Martin, director of strategic initiatives and communications at HUDS, were honored with the first ever Visionary Award from…

Pakistan’s top government finance officials joined Harvard Kennedy School professors in weighing policy choices to improve economic growth in the wake of the country’s recent debt crisis. At a conference…

The expansion of medical knowledge, together with advancements in biomedical research, are presenting extraordinary opportunities to train future health care leaders to deliver increasingly complex levels of patient care. At…

The Education Redesign Lab (EdRedesign), based at the Harvard Graduate School of Education (HGSE), released a new report today titled, “Sustaining Cross-Sector Systems of Opportunity for Children: Interim Lessons from…

In a move to offer broader interprofessional training, Harvard Medical School has received an accreditation term from the American Nurses Credentialing Center, making the School an accredited provider of continuing education…

Women scientists were 21 percent less likely to author invited commentaries in medical journals during a five-year period than men with similar scientific expertise, seniority, and publication metrics, according to…

Two Harvard scientists have been named to the New York Stem Cell Foundation (NYSCF) Investigator Program. As part of the 2019 class of NYSCF – Robertson Investigators, Ya-Chieh Hsu and…

Thirty-five years ago, the Arnold Arboretum of Harvard University began offering free programs for elementary school students called Field Study Experiences (FSE), opening the gates of nature and science to…

Eileen McNeely, co-founder and director of the Sustainability and Health Initiative for NetPositive Enterprise (SHINE) at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health tells CNN Travel that the health…

Lisa Dreier will become the next managing director of the Harvard Advanced Leadership Initiative (ALI). ALI is a third stage in higher education designed to harness the skills and vision…

On Oct. 10, Roy Gordon and Michael Aziz received a 2019 Eni Award for Innovation in Energy during a ceremony held at the Palazzo del Quirinale in Italy. Every year since 2007, Eni, a…

Dan Congreve, Rowland Fellow at the Rowland Institute at Harvard, has been named one of the Moore Inventor Fellows. Launched in 2016 to celebrate the 50th anniversary of Moore’s Law,…

With negotiators from more than 100 countries preparing to gather in Santiago, Chile, for the 25th annual international climate conference (COP25, for Conference of the Parties) in December, attention is…

Tarana Burke, civil rights activist and founder of the global #MeToo movement for survivors of sexual assault, has been chosen as this year’s recipient of Harvard Kennedy School’s Center for…

A detailed analysis of midterm voter turnout figures from the 2018 elections shows that the percentage of eligible Harvard students who turned up at the polls nearly doubled when compared…

The Office of the Vice Provost for Research recently made awards to five early career science scholars comprising the 2019 cohort of the Aramont Fund for Emerging Science Research fellows.…

More than 700 Harvard Extension School (HES) degree candidates and their guests gathered for the school’s second Convocation inside of Memorial Church this weekend. Students traveled from as far as…

Harvard’s Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study was one of seven Boston-area higher education institutions to host Boston Public School students on Aug. 5­–9 as part of the Summer of HOPE…

Harvard University has established a multi-year research collaboration with the biotech company Moderna, Inc., with the goal of identifying and developing novel therapeutic approaches that could improve the lives of…