Kang-Kuen Ni, professor of chemistry and chemical biology, has received the 2023 New Horizons in Physics Prize from the Breakthrough Prize Foundation. The New Horizons prizes are awarded to early-career…

Since 2020, the number of individuals awaiting trial in San Francisco County who are required to wear an electronic monitoring (EM) device has increased by 308 percent. This explosion is…

The summer between high school and college is often filled with fleeting farewells and nervous energy as students prepare themselves for their lives ahead in a new home.  At Harvard,…

Freeman A. Hrabowski III, president emeritus of the University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC), has been named the inaugural 2022 Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Commemorative Lecture speaker. An esteemed…

The Hutchins Center Honors are back with a new slate of honorees after a nearly three-year hiatus due to the pandemic. The W.E.B Du Bois Medal will be awarded to…

A new educational animation that debuted at the Museum of Science in Boston over the summer aims to give parents and children the chance to learn about menstruation — a topic…

Two HMS Center for Bioethics faculty members, Francis Shen and Vardit Ravitsky have received research funding through the National Institutes of Health. The NIH Common Fund has launched the Bridge…

Since 1990, the Harvard Alumni Association (HAA) has bestowed the HAA Award to distinguished alumni in recognition of their remarkable service to Harvard University through leadership and engagement activities. Continuing…

The mental health system is increasingly reliant on psychiatric mental health nurse practitioners (PMHNPs) to meet the psychiatric needs of Medicare patients, according to a new study led by researchers at…

The Harvard Medical School Center for Bioethics has announced its inaugural Beecher Teaching Awards, which recognize the exceptional teaching of medical ethics at Harvard Medical School. One award recognizes faculty…

Of the 16 students across Harvard who received the 2022 New World Social Innovation Fellowship, given by the Social Innovation Change Initiative at the Harvard Kennedy School’s Center for Public Leadership, eight…

As the United States and China joust over high-risk disputes including Taiwan and Hong Kong, researchers at Harvard Kennedy School have stepped back to assess how the U.S.-China diplomatic rivalry…

What started as a local first-year orientation activity in 2015 has evolved into an annual rallying call for civic activism across the greater Harvard community.  Through the 2022 Global Day…

The Harvard Art Museums have appointed Ayşin Yoltar-Yıldırım as the new Norma Jean Calderwood Curator of Islamic and Later Indian Art, effective Oct. 3. Currently the Hagop Kevorkian Associate Curator…

Every day people watch over a billion hours of video on YouTube. More than 500 hours of content are uploaded to YouTube every minute. Now more than ever, people are…

Harvard Business School (HBS) has announced the 2022 recipients of its Horace W. Goldsmith Fellowships. Established in 1988 by the Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation and Richard L. Menschel (M.B.A. 1959),…

Next week, the popular Science and Cooking Public Lecture Series kicks off its 13th year at Harvard University. The series pairs Harvard professors with celebrated food experts and renowned chefs…

The Center for Public Leadership at Harvard Kennedy School has announced the appointment of five Hauser Leaders for the fall 2022 semester. Celebrating its eighth year, the Hauser Leaders Program brings…

Avner Halperin is a research fellow with Harvard Kennedy School’s Middle East Initiative, based in the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs and led by Ford Foundation Professor of…

A group of local high school students joined Harvard mentors for a six-week program to improve their science literacy and equip them with basic life science, laboratory, and workforce skills.…

Traveling from over 25 states and nine countries, with different levels of climate education and involvement, 122 students met for the first time on July 24 at the Youth Summit on…

In an effort to make the Master of Business Administration (M.B.A.) degree more affordable and accessible to a wider array of students, Harvard Business School (HBS) announced today that it…

When Harvard Kennedy School was approached by the Victory Institute, a national organization supporting openly LGBTQ leaders, to create an executive training fellowship, no one imagined the lasting and profoundly…

Before COVID-19 emerged as a global threat in 2020, institutions around the world had been trying to tackle the issue of pandemic preparedness. But those groups were underfunded, did not have clear-cut roles,…

In 2021, the longstanding global health goal to eradicate malaria experienced a paradigm shift: after 30 years of development, the first vaccine for the disease was endorsed by the World Health Organization. Countries are…

The Institute to End Mass Incarceration at Harvard Law School and the Harvard Radcliffe Institute today announce the joint appointment of Brittany White as a visiting practitioner in residence for…

The Giant Magellan Telescope, the most powerful telescope ever engineered using the world’s largest mirrors, has secured a $205 million investment from its international consortium to accelerate construction. The investment…

Semiconductors, the building blocks of the modern information age, are critical components to seemingly every manufactured product from phones to cars to computers. To discuss the challenge of building new…