Fellows at the Forefront is an innovative faculty-led summer pilot program where students work together on a series of research, policy, and advocacy projects that focus on some of the…

Harvard Radcliffe Institute has awarded its 2022–2023 Exploratory Seminars. Emerging from multiple disciplines and applying bold cross-disciplinary perspectives, the awardees — all Harvard faculty members or Harvard Radcliffe Institute fellows…

Harvard Business School’s (HBS) Baker Library Special Collections announced today the opening of a new exhibit, From Inquiry to Action: Harvard Business School & the Case Method, an exhibition marking the 100th anniversary of…

Maia Sandu MC/M.P.A. ’10, who waged a decade-long anti-corruption campaign that led to her becoming the president of Moldova, will deliver the 2022 graduation address at Harvard Kennedy School on…

Harvard Graduate School of Design announces Gary R. Hilderbrand, M.L.A. ’85 as new chair of the Department of Landscape Architecture, effective July 1, 2022. Hilderbrand is the Peter Louis Hornbeck Professor-in-Practice…

EdRedesign at the Harvard Graduate School of Education has received a $200,000 grant from the Barr Foundation and an anonymous gift of $3 million to establish an Institute for Success Planning to help communities…

Historically, professional organizations in the study of religion have ignored the experiences and practices of marginal and new religious movements. The new Program for the Evolution of Spirituality (PES) at Harvard Divinity…

The Harvard Art Museums announce a transformative gift of 21 works of 18th-century American silver from the collection of Daniel A. Pollack and Susan F. Pollack. The gift comprises a…

Kevin Young ’92 — poet, author, poetry editor at The New Yorker, and Andrew W. Mellon Director of the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture — released…

The Friends of Harvard Women’s Basketball Head Coach Kathy Delaney-Smith, who has led the program since 1982, coached her 40th and final season in 2021-22, which concluded March 11 with…

Harvard Business School (HBS) has received a $10 million gift from Howard Cox (MBA 1969) to support the School’s Health Care Initiative with the goal of improving the quality and driving down…

“Do you like meat?” That was the first question Kit Parker, the Tarr Family Professor of Bioengineering and Applied Physics at the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and…

Sheila Jasanoff, the Pforzheimer Professor of Science and Technology Studies at Harvard Kennedy School, has been awarded the 2022 Holberg Prize, among the world’s most prestigious awards for academic work…

Lisa J. Kewley has been named the director of the Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian (CfA), effective July 1, 2022. A world leader in the theoretical modeling and…

As part of the Presidential initiative on climate and sustainability, the Office of the Vice Provost for Climate and Sustainability invites proposals from Harvard University ladder faculty for the new…

Marilyn “Merry” Reynolds Duffy Touborg, 77, director of communications for the Office of Human Resources from 1990 to 2004, passed away on March 3. Born on April 14 1944 in…

The Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy at Harvard Kennedy School is proud to announce the six finalists for the 2022 Goldsmith Prize for Investigative Reporting. The Goldsmith…

Theda Skocpol, Ph.D. ’75, is among seven distinguished scholars named  Fellows of the American Academy of Political and Social Science. The AAPSS, one of the nation’s oldest learned societies, elects…

Herbert C. Kelman, the Richard Clarke Cabot Professor of Social Ethics emeritus at Harvard and the director of the Program on International Conflict Analysis and Resolution at the Weatherhead Center…

Harvard and Boston University have been awarded a new grant of $3 million from the State House to support the development of next-generation robotics and wearable technologies. Researchers aim to improve the lives of people with neuro-motor impairments and to…

EdRedesign at the Harvard Graduate School of Education (HGSE) has received a $200,000 grant from the Barr Foundation and an anonymous gift of $3 million to establish an Institute for Success…

“One of the most remarkable aspects of the tragic events in Ukraine concerns the sudden uprising of thousands or even millions of ordinary citizens,” write the Kennedy School’s Pippa Norris…

Through his research, Ph.D. student Zid Mancenido has come to realize that as college students think about future careers, the decision to enter the classroom to teach isn’t always marked by good…

Since 2002, the Alumni of Color Conference (AOCC) has been a signature event that cultivates conversations from Harvard Graduate School of Education alumni across the country. Through their unique perspectives, expertise,…

The Harvard Graduate School of Education is pleased to announce the appointments of Framingham State University President Javier Cevallos and Amherst College President Biddy Martin as Presidents-in-Residence for the 2022–23 school year. “We’re excited to have…

Harvard University Provost Alan Garber and American Repertory Theater Chair Andy Ory announced today the appointment of Kelvin Dinkins Jr., as the A.R.T.’s next executive director. Dinkins is a nationally…

The Institute for Quantitative Social Science has launched a program called “Extraordinary Claims, Extraordinary Evidence” to help Harvard faculty develop research and evidence in support of claims that may be…

Harvard students seeking an enriching, hands-on experience should look beyond the largest companies and consider startups in their summer planning, according to participants in a new internship program who say…