The Harvard Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology held its first-ever undergraduate research symposium, showcasing the innovative research projects of some of the brightest young minds in the field. The May 2 symposium was attended by approximately 150 people, including faculty members, graduate students, undergraduates, and staff members from across the University. The event featured…

Silkroad announced today the appointment of Ben Hartley to the position of executive director, beginning on May 15. Hartley succeeds Kathy Fletcher, who left the position in December 2022 to lead the Wellfleet Preservation Hall in Massachusetts and has remained involved with Silkroad’s fundraising and artistic initiatives as senior adviser. Hartley was most recently executive…

Eminent political theorist Eric Beerbohm, professor of government and faculty affiliate in the Department of Philosophy, has been appointed as the next director of Harvard’s Edmond & Lily Safra Center for Ethics. Beerbohm succeeds Danielle S. Allen, James Bryant Conant University Professor, M.A. ’98, Ph.D. ’01, who has served as director since 2015 and will…

Harvard’s Office of Technology Development (OTD) and the Salata Institute for Climate and Sustainability at Harvard University have announced the launch of the Climate and Sustainability Translational Fund and supporting programs, aimed at increasing the global impact of Harvard research in the areas of climate and sustainability. The fund will provide support for University-based projects…

“When you say the American dream you see a picket fence, you see a suburban house, you see one boy, one girl and two parents, you see all those things,” said Elaina, a Latinx college student from New York. “And all the pictures are of white families, and sweaters and crewnecks and that’s just not…

The impacts of climate change are all around us. Next week, the solutions will be, too. From May 8-12, climate experts, leaders from business and government, advocates, organizers, academics, and students will convene across Harvard University and online to tackle the climate challenge. This first-ever Harvard Climate Action Week will include more than a dozen…

Global sports and entertainment company Endeavor (NYSE: EDR) and Harvard University today announced the launch of Versity, a premium platform that brings together Harvard’s world-class professors and subject-matter experts with celebrities represented by the Endeavor network to create uniquely engaging, interactive learning experiences. Purpose-built for organizations committed to supporting their future leaders, Versity courses focus…

On Oct. 22, 2013, Flora Jiaxuan Xu woke up in her hometown of Harbin, in northern China, to a white world. “At first I thought it was snow coming really early in October,” she said. “But later I realized it was heavy smog.” The smog lasted for days. School was canceled for at least three…

Danoff Dean of Harvard College Rakesh Khurana has announced the appointment of Erica Chenoweth and Zoe Marks as the new faculty deans of Pforzheimer House. They will begin their new roles on July 1.  Chenoweth is the Frank Stanton Professor of the First Amendment at Harvard Kennedy School and Susan S. and Kenneth L. Wallach…

The American Museum of Natural History (AMNH) in New York City has revealed its Richard Gilder Center for Science, Education, and Innovation. The center is designed by Studio Gang, the international architecture and urban design practice led by Jeanne Gang, professor in practice of architecture at Harvard Graduate School of Design (GSD). Scheduled to open…

The American Repertory Theater announced its four anchor productions for the 2023-24 season, all to be performed at the Loeb Drama Center in Harvard Square. Led by Terrie and Bradley Bloom Artistic Director Diane Paulus and Executive Director Kelvin Dinkins Jr., the season will begin in September with A.R.T.’s North American premiere production of  “The…

Jacinda Ardern, who earned international acclaim for her leadership as New Zealand’s prime minister, has been appointed to dual fellowships at Harvard Kennedy School — as 2023 Angelopoulos Global Public Leaders Fellow and as a Hauser Leader in the School’s Center for Public Leadership. The announcement was made today by Kennedy School Dean Douglas Elmendorf.…

The board of directors of the Paul & Daisy Soros Fellowships for New Americans announced the program’s 2023 fellows on April 25. The 30 new fellows, including 12 with connections to Harvard, were chosen from a pool of nearly 2,000 applicants from across the U.S.   “Immigrants, asylum seekers, and refugees have and continue to…

Curiosity drives Nazli Ugur Koyluoglu. Koyluoglu, an inaugural member of Harvard’s Ph.D. program in quantum science and engineering who works at the intersection of quantum information and many-body physics, has been named the first recipient of a Harvard Frontier Fellowship, funded through a generous gift from Hartley Rogers ’81, M.B.A. ’85 and Amy Falls, M.P.P.…

Raymond J. McGuire, J.D./M.B.A. ’84, current president of financial services company Lazard, and the former vice chairman of Citigroup, will be Harvard Business School’s Class Day Speaker on Wednesday, May 24, 2023. The ceremony will take place on Baker Lawn on the School’s campus in Boston and will include a welcome from the co-presidents of…

Harvard Business School (HBS) has announced that five distinguished graduates will receive the School’s highest honor, the Alumni Achievement Award. The award is given annually to recognize alumni who are leaders in their fields and who exemplify the mission, highest standards, and values of the School. As role models of outstanding leadership for HBS’ graduating…

Harvard Business School (HBS) announced the appointment of Katia Walsh to the role of chief digital officer (CDO), effective April 10. As CDO, she will oversee the growth of a newly established technology function that builds and scales world-leading capabilities in digital products, data strategy and architecture, analytics, and machine learning engineering and AI. This…

It was a day of firsts at the opening celebration for the Bloomberg Center for Cities at Harvard University. The center is the first of its kind in uniting cities-focused expertise. It’s the first in the world to focus on strengthening hundreds of local governments and their leadership on a global scale. And it was the…

Harvard senior Jeromel Dela Rosa Lara immigrated with his mother from the Philippines to the U.S. in 2011. Lara studies social anthropology and the comparative study of religion. His thesis focuses on the experience of Filipina migrant domestic workers. As a member of the Harvard Museums of Science & Culture marketing team, Lara arranged for…

As a young child, Octavious Smiley would look forward to his older sister coming back from school and teaching him what she had learned in math class. He also remembers always wanting to pursue a doctorate degree. “I was interested in the Ph.D. before I even knew what it was. It was just the highest…

David Bloom, the Clarence James Gamble Professor of Economics and Demography at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, is the recipient of the 2023 Irene B. Taeuber Award. Presented every other year by the Population Association of America (PAA), the Taeuber Award recognizes “unusually original or important contributions to the scientific study of…

Harvard has unveiled the Mignone Center for Career Success in recognition of the ongoing support of Allison Hughes Mignone ’94, M.B.A. ’99 and Roberto A. Mignone ’92, M.B.A. ’96. The newly named center, formerly known as the Office of Career Services, hosted a reception to recognize the couple’s gift, which will bolster career services, strengthen…

The Mittal Institute is delighted to announce the selection of Nilima Sheikh as the inaugural Distinguished Artist Fellow (DAF). Sheikh, a renowned painter based in Baroda, India, will be in residence at the institute on the Harvard campus from April 17–27. On April 22, she will deliver the prestigious Norma Jean Calderwood Lecture at the…

Harvard philosopher Susanna Siegel has been awarded a 2023 Guggenheim Fellowship to support her work studying vigilantism and political vision.  Siegel, the Edgar Pierce Professor of Philosophy in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, is one of 171 fellows from across the U.S. and Canada who were chosen by the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation this year,…

When Americo Mendoza-Mori was asked to serve as faculty chair of the eighth annual Scholarship and Social Justice Conference, he imagined a forum where academia inspires activism.  As faculty director of the Latinx Studies Working Group and a scholar representing Harvard University’s Ethnicity, Migration, Rights program, Mendoza-Mori convened a team of four outstanding scholars to share…

Harvard Business School’s Institute for the Study of Business in Global Society (BiGS) today announced a cohort of five visiting scholars who will focus exclusively on climate, deepening the School’s commitment to accelerating research aimed at mitigating and adapting to global climate change. “We are delighted to welcome our second cohort of BiGS Visiting Fellows to…

American Repertory Theater (A.R.T.) at Harvard University announced Wednesday that the theater will develop Julia Riew’s musical “Dive,” previously known as “Shimcheong: A Folktales.” “Stop Kiss” playwright Diana Son and Tony Award-winning director Diane Paulus join Fred Ebb Award winner Riew on the expanding creative team that will center Asian American voices. Audiences are encouraged…

For Briana Acosta and Yvette Cho, the inequities that plague the U.S. healthcare system are personal. Both Acosta and Cho, master of public health students at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, saw the impacts of healthcare inequities in their own families and communities throughout childhood — even if they couldn’t articulate what was wrong at the time.…