The Office of the Vice Provost for Research (OVPR) and Office of the Vice Provost for International Affairs (OVPIA) has announced the next phase of funding for the Lemann Brazil Research Fund, thanks to a new gift from the Lemann Foundation. Established in 2016 by a generous gift from the Lemann Foundation, the fund is…

Within the framework of the CELAC–Africa High-Level Forum, held in Bogotá from March 18–21 under the auspices of Colombia’s Vice President Francia Elena Márquez Mina, the Afro-Latin American Research Institute at Harvard University (ALARI) and CAF – Development Bank of Latin America and the Caribbean signed a Memorandum of Understanding aimed at strengthening knowledge production…

The Harvard Business School (HBS) Rock Center for Entrepreneurship recently hosted their annual Demo Day at the Rock Venture Leadership Dinner, a signature gathering bringing together emerging founders, faculty, investors, alumni, and leaders from the Rock entrepreneurial ecosystem for an evening of connection, inspiration, and collaboration. The evening also shone the spotlight on the top 20 semifinalists…

The Kempner Institute’s AI cluster, already one of the fastest AI supercomputers in the world, is undergoing a major expansion, adding more than 500 NVIDIA graphics processing units (GPUs) — the specialized processors that make modern graphics and AI possible — to scale-up its capacity for cutting-edge research on intelligence.

On April 3, the Center for the Study of World Religions will host a special screening of “Henry David Thoreau” and discussion at the Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts.

Harvard Business School’s (HBS) Klarman Hall was the site of the March 5 finale of the annual New Venture Competition (NVC), an opportunity for student founders to pitch their ventures before the HBS community.

In a new paper titled “Neuronal tuning aligns dynamically with object and texture manifolds across the visual hierarchy,” just published in Nature Neuroscience.

The Harvard Global Health Institute (HGHI) invites faculty across Harvard and its affiliated hospitals to submit proposals for forming Scholarly Working Groups (SWG) in Global Health.

Thomas Fel, a research fellow at the Kempner Institute, wants to help solve what he describes as one of the most fascinating puzzles of our generation — understanding the inner workings of AI models, and uncovering the mathematical principles that underlie their abilities.

When the COVID-19 pandemic spread across the globe in 2020, Harvard Law School alum Earl Martin Phalen ’93 wanted to do his part to address the increase in job loss and financial instability through his organization Skilled US.

Nobel laureate Claudia Goldin is receiving the American Academy of Arts and Sciences’ 2026 Talcott Parsons Prize.

The Graduate Commons Program (GCP) at Harvard University Housing will say goodbye this spring to Faculty Directors Nancy Hill (HGSE) and Rendall Howell, as they begin their new chapter in Currier House as FAS faculty dean.

The Kempner Institute for the Study of Natural and Artificial Intelligence at Harvard University is pleased to announce the 2026 Kempner Institute Accelerator Awards request for proposals. 

Analysis of 1.6 million patents finds that early-20th-century research labs and professional engineers sparked a surge in novel inventions and reshaped who innovates — and where.

Leonard Zon, professor of Stem Cell and Regenerative Biology and director of the Stem Cell Research Program at Boston Children’s Hospital, has won 2026 March of Dimes Richard B Johnston Jr., MD Prize from the March of Dimes for his pioneering work in hematology and stem cell biology.

Four Harvard students are among the 26 selected to be part of the 2026 class of Gates Cambridge Scholars at the University of Cambridge.

Tyler J. VanderWeele, John L. Loeb and Frances Lehman Loeb Professor of Epidemiology in the Departments of Epidemiology and Biostatistics at the T.H. Chan School of Public Health, is the newest member of Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences.  Appointed this week by Pope Leo XIV, VanderWeele will serve alongside 35 global experts in law, political…

Harvard University’s Hutchins Center for African & African American Research announces that historian and higher education leader Ben Vinson III has been appointed a fellow at the center’s Afro-Latin American Research Institute (ALARI). Vinson’s fellowship follows his recently concluded tenure as president of the American Historical Association, during which he recently delivered his outgoing presidential…

The Harvard Global Health Institute (HGHI) has announced the full agenda and speaker lineup for its fourth annual Global Health Symposium, scheduled for April 16 at Harvard University and livestreamed via YouTube. Under the theme “Global Health Forward: Strength Through Innovation and Collective Action,” the symposium will bring together scholars, clinicians, policymakers, and practitioners from around…

The Kempner Institute for the Study of Natural and Artificial Intelligence at Harvard University is pleased to announce the spring 2026 recipients of the Kempner Undergraduate Research Experience (KURE) awards.

Advancing research is essential to realizing the fuller potential of genomic medicines. In support of this critical work, the Office of the Vice Provost for Research is pleased to announce a new funding opportunity is now open to eligible investigators at Harvard University working in fields related to genomic medicines.

New projections from the Growth Lab at Harvard Kennedy School suggest that Vietnam and China are positioned to lead global growth in the decade ahead, driven by their sophisticated and diverse manufacturing capabilities.

Over the past two decades, Satchit Balsari’s lab has followed disasters and humanitarian crises across the globe, including natural disasters, like earthquakes, floods, and hurricanes in South Asia, the U.S., and Central and South America, as well as populations displaced by wars and refugee crises in Bangladesh and the Middle East.

In December, more than 20 therapists, chaplains, and other professionals gathered for a three-day workshop focused on providing spiritual care in religious and recreational psychedelic settings.

Bill Rauch ’84 will receive the 2026 Harvard Arts Medal.

Xiaowei Zhuang, David B. Arnold Jr. Professor of Science at Harvard University and a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator, has been awarded the 2026 Ernest Solvay Prize by Syensqo “for pioneering the development of genome-scale imaging, which has transformed biochemical research, enabled spatial genomics, and created a new paradigm for understanding the molecular and cellular…

New research from the Kempner Institute on the language-processing role of the cerebellum has potential implications for treating language disorders, as well as for building future artificial intelligence language models.