John Holdren, former national science adviser to President Barack Obama, will rejoin the Harvard Kennedy School (HKS) faculty as the Teresa and John Heinz Professor of Environmental Policy. The appointment,…

On March 3-4 at 8 p.m., the Fromm Players at Harvard assemble one of the nation’s foremost new music groups, Talea Ensemble, for two free concerts, “Songs Found in Dream,”…

Steven Beshear, former Governor of Kentucky, and Gina McCarthy, former Administrator for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, are on campus at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health this spring…

In partnership with the Harvard University Office of the Executive Vice President, Harvard Campus Services, Harvard Planning Harvard, and the Zone 3 initiative, the Harvard Graduate School of Design (GSD)…

Catherine Dulac, Higgins Professor in the Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology and an investigator at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, is the winner of the 2017 Edward M. Scolnick…

Jennifer A. Lewis, the Hansjorg Wyss Professor of Biologically Inspired Engineering at the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciencesand core faculty member of the Wyss Institute of Biologically…

The Harvard Graduate Student Council announced it’s #WeAre1H Grassroots Campaign in conjunction with the Harvard Extension Student Association for the 7th annual “Masquerade Ball” taking place on March 4 at…

The Initiative for the Science of the Human Past at Harvard and the Climate Change Institute at the University of Maine are delighted to announce that the Arcadia Fund of…

Harvard has been named a Best Workplace for Commuters for the fourth consecutive year. On Jan. 31, 2017, the Center for Urban Transportation Research announced the employers who earned the designation…

Six finalists for the Goldsmith Prize for Investigative Reporting have been announced by the Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy at Harvard Kennedy School (HKS). The winner of…

Samir Mitragotri, a leading chemical- and bio-engineer who develops new techniques and materials for treating conditions such as diabetes, cancer and bleeding disorders, will join the faculty of the Harvard…

Attendees of the Harvard Ed Portal’s recent Learning Xchange “Health and Wellness for the New Year” were given the opportunity to learn about nutrition, sleep, physical exercise, and maintaining a…

The Harvard Kennedy School’s Institute of Politics (IOP) has selected its spring 2017 class of Visiting and Resident Fellows. A list is available at http://bit.ly/2017SpringFellows. “This class of Fellows boasts…

The Harvard Art Museums are pleased to announce the appointment of Makeda Best as the new Richard L. Menschel Curator of Photography, effective Jan. 17, 2017. Best is currently assistant professor…

The Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy, based at Harvard Kennedy School, is pleased to announce the appointment of its spring 2017 fellows. “Following one of the most…

Several Harvard Kennedy School (HKS) alumni and one current student have been named to the 2017 Forbes 30 Under 30 list, celebrating “the brightest young entrepreneurs, innovators and game changers”…

Calestous Juma, professor of the practice of international development at Harvard Kennedy School (HKS), has been named among the 100 Most Influential Africans for 2016 by New African magazine. Juma,…

Each year, as the hectic holiday season comes to a close, the team at Crimson Catering gathers to have a team celebration. Typically, that includes an ornament swap, with team members bringing…

This year’s Tazuko Ajiro Monane and Noma-Reischauer Awards Ceremony, an annual tradition co-hosted by Harvard’s Japanese Language Program and the Edwin O. Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies, honored a record…

In landmark action to signal a renewed commitment to civil and effective government, freshman members of Congress have issued a statement prompted by the Harvard Kennedy School’s Institute of Politics…

The Advanced Leadership Initiative (ALI) at Harvard University announced the selection of 46 ALI Fellows to take part in its intensive, multi-disciplinary program. ALI taps the experience of a socially…

These new papers include exploration of the challenges of defining hate speech, assessment of efforts to address racist speech online in South America, and consideration of the legal foundations of…

Road trip! This fall, four researchers from Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston hopped into a 32-foot-long RV and began motoring down the…

Aging is a key risk factor for a variety of devastating, chronic diseases, yet the biological factors that influence when and how rapidly cells deteriorate over time remain largely unknown.…