As a junior at Brighton High School in 2022, Roshaun Knight was unsure about his plans after graduation. An ambitious student, Knight had always wanted to go to college but…

The Bloomberg Harvard City Leadership Initiative announced a new email newsletter sharing free resources based on peer-reviewed academic research. Starting this month, the newsletter will share relevant management and leadership…

The Center for International Development (CID) at Harvard University is pleased to welcome a new cohort of fellows for the 2024 spring semester. Fellows play an important role at the…

Rob Watson, deputy director of The EdRedesign Lab at Harvard Graduate School of Education is one of 60 scholars who will form the Presidential Leadership Scholars’ (PLS) ninth class. For…

The Southern University Gospel Choir from Baton Rouge, Louisiana, will fill the Memorial Church Sanctuary on Feb. 17 with a chorus of 50 powerful voices singing traditional spiritual music in…

Researchers have found that an overhaul of the performance review system for judging young doctors has led to a large reduction in ratings bias against Black, Latino, and Asian medical…

Internationally renowned scholar, educator, and author James Robson has been named the new director of the Harvard-Yenching Institute (HYI). The James C. Kralik and Yunli Lou Professor of East Asian…

Erika Lee, one of the nation’s leading immigration and Asian America historians, will become Harvard Radcliffe Institute’s new Carl and Lily Pforzheimer Foundation Faculty Director at the Schlesinger Library, the…

A groundbreaking investigation conducted by the Massachusetts General Hospital Asylum Clinic at the MGH Center for Global Health, the FXB Center for Health and Human Rights at Harvard University, and the Harvard Global…

The Kempner Institute for the Study of Natural and Artificial Intelligence at Harvard is pleased to announce the launch of academic year and summer research programs to support Harvard College…

The Institute of Politics at Harvard Kennedy School announced the appointment of seven Resident Fellows and one Visiting Fellow who will join the IOP for the spring 2024 semester. The…

The Growth Lab works to push the frontier of economic growth and development policy research, and our multi-disciplinary team extended our pioneering research agenda to five continents in 2023. Our…

Harvard University’s Advanced Leadership Initiative (ALI) announced the selection of its 2024 fellowship cohort, which is notable for its significant international representation and broad sector diversity. On Jan. 8, ALI…

A diminutive, snow-covered moon of Saturn called Enceladus has taken first place among candidates for hosting life in our solar system, according to a joint Harvard-NASA study.  Led by Griffin…

Caroline Jean Fernald has been named executive director of Harvard Museums of Science and Culture, Hopi Hoekstra, Edgerley Family Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences announced today. Fernald…

Even as tensions over the Israel-Hamas war have approached the boiling point on campuses across the United States, the Harvard Kennedy School’s Middle East Initiative has hosted a series of…

Concluding a two-year investigation, researchers at Harvard Kennedy School’s Growth Lab have issued a stark diagnosis of the “collapsing state capacity” in South Africa after decades of policy failures, mismanagement, and patronage, with…

A steady stream of students from Harvard Schools met with representatives from The World Bank, Ceres, NRDC, the U.S. Department of Energy, the Green Corps, and dozens of other employers…

The Harvard Art Museums have acquired an important gift of “Medals for Dishonor,” a critical early work by preeminent 20th-century sculptor David Smith (American, 1906–1965). The gift from the artist’s…

The convergence of semiconductor technology and drug discovery holds great promise in the pursuit for new medications and therapies. But drug discovery is notorious for being lengthy, inefficient, costly, and…

Bonnie Talbert and David Elmer have been named the new faculty deans of Eliot House, Danoff Dean of Harvard College Rakesh Khurana announced today. They will start their roles July…

Obatala Sciences, a biotechnology company that manufactures stem cells and human-derived hydrogels, announced the accomplishment of a major milestone with the commercial launch of its ObaCell Obesity-on-a-Chip Service. The new service…

Coinciding with United Nations Climate Change Conference COP28 in Dubai, the Lakshmi Mittal and Family South Asia Institute recently released a new policy brief, “Climate Change in South Asia: Requisites…

Evidence from a new study suggests that Black women in teams with a greater number of white peers may have worse job outcomes. This finding may offer a starting point for improving…

Harvard’s Growth Lab has released a new report on Lebanon’s struggling economy that revisits the origins of the crisis and proposes a comprehensive plan for a swift economic recovery. The research project, led…

The  Center for International Development  at Harvard University, in collaboration with Harvard Radcliffe Institute , and the Lakshmi Mittal and Family South Asia Institute, announced the 2023 Global Empowerment Meeting  Incubation Fund recipients,…

Drummer, composer, producer, educator, and activist Terri Lyne Carrington was honored with the Luise Vosgerchian Teaching Award by the Office for the Arts at Harvard and the Department of Music. …

Harvard celebrated  First-Generation Visibility Week, Nov. 3-9. Launched last year, the week included a series of events aimed to empower, celebrate, and validate the identities of first-generation students at the…