The 100th annual George W. Gay Lecture in Medical Ethics, held on Nov. 8, honored and celebrated a years-long collaboration between the Harvard Medical School Center for Bioethics and the…

Healthier plant-based dietary patterns were associated with better environmental health, while less healthy plant-based dietary patterns, which are higher in foods like refined grains and sugar-sweetened beverages, required more cropland and fertilizer, according…

New research by scholars from Harvard and the University of California, San Francisco, finds that service sector workers in the United States have limited and unequal access to paid sick…

The Center for Public Service and Engaged Scholarship is launching two new programs — the Banga Family Social Entrepreneur Postgraduate Fellowship and the Banga Family Social Innovation Research Research Grant…

Buildings renovated with healthier furnishings had significantly lower levels of the entire group of per- and polyfluoralkyl substances (PFAS) — toxic chemicals linked with many negative health effects — than…

American Repertory Theater (A.R.T.) at Harvard University, led by Terrie and Bradley Bloom Artistic Director Diane Paulus ’88 and Executive Director Kelvin Dinkins Jr., announced today its 2023 Gala will…

English concentrator William Lohier ’23 was awarded first place and a $4,000 prize by the National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE) in its national writing contest, “Celebrating Black Writers:…

Following a pandemic-induced two-year delay, the Harvard Varsity Club (HVC) was finally able to honor the Hall of Fame Class of 2020 last month, in celebrations attended by more than…

In November 2021, researchers in the Botswana lab of Sikhulile Moyo discovered a coronavirus genome that contained dozens of new potentially dangerous mutations. The researchers rapidly alerted the rest of the…

Three faculty members from Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health — Wafaie Fawzi, Vikram Patel, and John Quackenbush — have been elected to the National Academy of Medicine. Membership is considered one…

Over the past two decades, there’s been a steady proliferation of nuclear weapons around the world. In recent weeks, the threat posed by these weapons has loomed larger, with Russian…

The Harvard Innovation Labs is welcoming 26 ventures into the 2022-2023 Launch Lab X GEO cohort, a global startup leadership program designed to help early-stage, Harvard alumni-led ventures grow into…

Kang-Kuen Ni, professor of chemistry and chemical biology and of physics, has been named among the first cohort Moore Experimental Physics Investigators. Each of these investigators is pushing the boundaries…

Massachusetts Center for the Book has named Harvard Professor Tiya Miles the recipient of its Nonfiction Award for “All That She Carried” (Penguin Random House). This National Book Award winner is…

The U.S. has a lot to learn from Costa Rica. That message came through loud and clear in a fireside chat with former Costa Rican President Carlos Alvarado Quesada, held…

The Harvard Business School’s Arthur Rock Center for Entrepreneurship has announced the Rock Executive Fellows, Entrepreneurs-in-Residence, Venture Capital Advisors, and Lawyers-in-Residence for the 2022-2023 academic year. Rock Executive Fellows (REF) are comprised of four non-faculty affiliates/practitioners…

The European Research Council has awarded Harvard Professor Charles Langmuir and researchers the GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel in Germany a €14 million Synergy Grant to explore the…

As a child, Venerable Dorjey Dolma was mesmerized by how her aunt, a Tibetan Buddhist nun, wore the maroon monastic robe. It was her admiration for her aunt, and appreciation…

In the wake of Hurricane Ian, with some Florida hospitals closed or damaged and their health care staff exhausted, a team of 37 Massachusetts doctors, nurses, pharmacists, respiratory therapists, and paramedics traveled near…

Jay O. Light, dean of Harvard Business School from 2005 to 2010, died on  Oct. 15 at his home in South Dartmouth, Massachusetts, of cancer. He was 81 years old.…

At the first in-person faculty meeting of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences since February 2020, Edgerley Family Dean of the FAS Claudine Gay announced a cluster hire of three…

Harvard Business School (HBS) announced today the formation of the Race, Gender, and Equity Initiative, which is both a renaming of the Gender Initiative and a reflection of work it has done…

Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health has welcomed six new primary faculty members over the past few months: Irini Albanti is a lecturer in the Department of Health Policy and Management and…

When Chester Pierce ’48, M.D. ’52, took the field at the University of Virginia on Oct. 11, 1947 as a member of the Harvard football team, it was recognized as…

More than 700 graduate and professional school students convened at the Smith Campus Center  on Sept. 29 for the fifth annual Harvard Grad Fest.  Hosted by the Graduate Student Affairs…

The Arnold Arboretum is celebrating its Sesquicentennial and this year it served as the backdrop for a unique training program aimed at keeping Harvard’s workers safe and its trees healthy.…

Xiaowei Zhuang, David B. Arnold Jr. Professor of Science, has won the 2022 Heinrich Wieland Prize of the Boehringer Ingelheim Foundation for making seminal discoveries in cell and neurobiology with…