In late June, the Supreme Court issued a ruling stating that the Environmental Protection Agency cannot put state-level caps on carbon emissions under the 1970 Clean Air Act. Such authority…

China, Vietnam, Uganda, Indonesia, and India are projected to be among the fastest-growing economies to 2030. That is the conclusion of researchers at the Growth Lab at Harvard University who…

Elena Savoia is a principal research scientist in the Department of Biostatistics at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health (HSPH). She is deputy director of the Emergency Preparedness, Research,…

Samagya Banskota, former postdoctoral researcher in the David Liu Lab, has been recognized as one of the world’s top innovators under 35 by MIT Technology Review. Banskota was celebrated for…

Between the traditional 19th-century houses of London’s Islington neighborhood and the mega-development of the city’s Knowledge Quarter, home to a cluster of life science, technology, and cultural institutions as well…

On July 18, the Bloomberg Harvard City Leadership Initiative welcomed its sixth class of 40 mayors from around the world to participate in a yearlong education and professional development program.…

The Edmond and Lily Safra Center for Ethics announced the passing of Lily Safra, its longtime friend and benefactor.  Mrs. Safra was a constant friend of Harvard’s Center for Ethics,…

Jesse Hoffnung-Garskof has joined the Faculty of Arts and Sciences as the third senior faculty dedicated to the teaching and scholarship of ethnicity, indigeneity, and migration (EIM). A historian with…

Jeffrey F. Hamburger, the Kuno Francke Professor of German Art & Culture, was awarded the 2022 Gutenberg Prize of the International Gutenberg Society and the city of Mainz for his…

In mid-June, seasoned city hall officials from four continents gained Harvard insights on negotiation using a novel set of resources. Participants in the Bloomberg Harvard City Leadership Initiative’s inaugural Negotiation for…

Harvard Management Company (HMC) announced today that Timothy R. Barakett ’87, M.B.A. ’93, has been elected to serve on the HMC Board of Directors. Barakett, who also serves as a…

Erika Lee will join the Faculty of Arts and Sciences as the second hire of senior faculty dedicated to teaching and scholarship of ethnicity, indigeneity, and migration (EIM). An award-winning…

Jia Liu, assistant professor of bioengineering at the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS), has been recognized as one of the world’s top Innovators Under…

Conor Walsh, the Paul A. Maeder Professor of Engineering and Applied Sciences at the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS), has received a 2022 Blavatnik National…

The International Mathematical Union named Harvard Gerhard Gade University Professor Barry Mazur as the recipient of the 2022 Chern Medal. The award celebrates lifelong outstanding achievements in the field of…

The Amgen Foundation announced on June 20 an increased commitment to LabXchange, an online science education platform that provides users with access to high-quality science education resources at no cost.…

The Harvard Department of Statistics awarded the 2022 Undergraduate Department of Statistics Prize to Yash Nair while also awarding the Dempster Prize to graduate student Ambarish Chattopadhyay. The Undergraduate Department…

Growing up in Chicago, Hoda Mahmoud rarely came across dentists who looked like her. “Only later did I make the connection that it was not due to a lack of…

Researchers from Harvard Chan SHINE and the Human Flourishing Program have published a new paper in the International Journal of Public Health examining the associations between social connectedness and mental…

New polling analysis released today shows that the American public is narrowly divided on a slew of ideologically charged issues before the Supreme Court such as abortion, gun control, immigration,…

People experiencing homelessness face innumerable challenges in achieving any sense of health. They endure a host of difficulties in managing chronic diseases — including extreme poverty, unstable housing, and even stolen medications —…

Alexander Banks, associate professor at Harvard Medical School, is the 2022 recipient of the Armen H. Tashjian Jr. Award for Excellence in Endocrine Research. The award recognizes his advances in standardizing data…

The Harvard Climate Internship Program (HCIP) welcomes 17 graduate students as its inaugural cohort of summer intern fellows. The HCIP is a University-wide program supporting graduate students who work in…

The Hebrew University of Jerusalem awarded world-renowned neurobiologist and distinguished Harvard University brain researcher Joshua R. Sanes an honorary doctorate degree. The award celebrates Sanes’ numerous accomplishments in the fields…

Harvard Business School (HBS) has named its 2022-23 Blavatnik Fellows and the program’s ninth cohort. Launched in 2013, the Blavatnik Fellowship in Life Science Entrepreneurship is part of a gift to Harvard University from…

The American Repertory Theater (A.R.T.) at Harvard University, led by Terrie and Bradley Bloom Artistic Director Diane Paulus and Executive Director Kelvin Dinkins Jr., announced a new, five-person version of…

In January 2020 when the first COVID-19 cases were reported in Wuhan, China, Xihong Lin immediately sprang into action, collaborating with scientists there to analyze the city’s epidemic. The researchers estimated the coronavirus transmission rate…

The morning after the shooting in Uvalde that left 19 students and two teachers dead, Peter Swing, Ed.M.’22, was wide awake, sitting at his computer in a hotel room. It…

Two Harvard researchers have been selected for the fifth cohort of Schmidt Science Fellows, a postdoctoral fellowship program focused on harnessing the power of interdisciplinary science for the public benefit.…

Eileen Reynolds ’86 and Daniel Deschler have been named interim faculty deans for Leverett House, Danoff Dean of Harvard College Rakesh Khurana announced today. “Eileen and Daniel are extraordinarily caring…