Latanya Sweeney, Daniel Paul Professor of Government and Technology, has been named to Time magazine’s 2025 list of the 100 most influential people in the field of artificial intelligence. Now in its third year, the Time list recognizes innovators, advocates, policymakers, and artists whose work is shaping the future of artificial intelligence. Sweeney is featured alongside figures such as…

Five companies started with discoveries in Harvard labs and, with various forms of support, developed impactful solutions that are enhancing our quality of life. Already, the planet has warmed by more than 1 degree Celsius, and it’s inching ever closer to topping the 1.5-degree mark, which scientists say is a tipping point for the most…

This year, the Harvard Global Health Institute (HGHI) placed 53 students across 39 organizations in over 20 countries, each making meaningful contributions to global health research and practice.

Two Harvard researchers have been nominated for the Blavatnik Awards for Young Scientists. Charlie Conroy, professor of astronomy, was recognized for his research on our galaxy’s formation and how the distribution of dark matter is related to the early history of the Milky Way. Philip J. Kranzusch, a professor at Harvard Medical School and the Dana-Farber…

A new paper by Harvard University’s Elaine Buckberg and co-authors argues that U.S. states can turbo-charge electric-vehicle adoption without rebates or taxes — just data transparency. Their paper, published today by AEI and Brookings, offers turnkey legislation that states can adopt to encourage EV adoption while costing them virtually nothing. Key points Universal real-time data…

For years, scientists have been warning us about the looming crisis of climate change. However, according to a recent study, nearly 15 percent of Americans do not believe climate change is real, and 37 percent are not worried about it. In another study, less than half of Americans (45 percent) believe climate change will pose a serious…

The HBCU Digital Library Trust digitizes stories of historically Black colleges and universities and expands access

Harvard University’s Advanced Leadership Initiative (ALI) has welcomed its 18th fellowship cohort to Cambridge, as another group of accomplished leaders joins the campus community over an academic year in residence committed to develop and implement strategies and solutions to address some of society’s most urgent challenges. Curated to ensure broad sector diversity, the 2026 ALI…

John Richard Lenger, 61, who for 15 years worked at the Harvard News Office (now Harvard Public Affairs and Communications), passed away Aug. 7 in Hermann, Missouri, after struggling with Parkinson’s disease and diabetes.  In 1994, Lenger was hired as the Harvard Gazette managing editor and later promoted to Harvard News Office’s assistant director and…

Exhibition “The Things They Shared” delves into the lives of cotton field workers in Uzbekistan, exploring their relationships with community, governance, subordination, personal freedom, and the natural and social environments they navigate.

Becca Nesson has been named the next executive director of the Derek Bok Center for Teaching and Learning.  Nesson, who is currently dean of academic programs at the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS), will begin the new role part time on Sept. 2 and transition to full time on…

The Kempner Institute announced Monday the appointment of Qianqian Wang, who will join Harvard as Kempner Institute investigator and assistant professor of computer science at the John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS). At Harvard, Wang will explore the future of human vision: how machines can learn to see, understand, and interact with the…

Harvard mathematicians are making an important addition. The Department of Mathematics launched the Benedict H. Gross Distinguished Visitors Program earlier this year thanks to a new gift from William R. Hearst III ’72. Each year, the department will invite a prominent mathematician from another institution to teach, give lectures, and engage with students and faculty.…

The Harvard Art Museums are pleased to announce the gift of “Light-Relief” (1960), a large-scale sculpture by internationally renowned artist Heinz Mack (b. 1931). The work — a generous gift made by the artist’s recently established Mack Foundation in Germany — has entered the collection of the Busch-Reisinger Museum, one of the Harvard Art Museums’ three constituent…

Harvard University Information Technology’s Digital Accessibility Services hosted the third annual University-wide Accessibility Summit on June 17. The event brought together Harvard faculty and staff for a day of learning and connecting accessibility practitioners to celebrate progress made and highlight work being done to drive disability inclusion across the University. In both the physical and…

British Columbia’s Burgess Shale is renowned for its exceptional preservation of soft tissues in fossils, including limbs and guts. While trilobites are abundant in the fossil record thanks to their hard exoskeleton, their soft limbs are rarely preserved and poorly understood. However, Olenoides serratus, a particularly abundant and well-preserved Burgess Shale trilobite, offers a unique opportunity…

Building upon its already ambitious sustainability goals, Harvard Campus Services has released the first comprehensive plan to help the University transition to zero waste. Accelerating a Zero Waste Future: A Framework for Waste Stewardship aligns with Harvard’s Sustainability Action Plan, and includes guiding objectives and actionable strategies that will empower schools and departments to carry out…

Francis Schüssler Fiorenza, a towering figure in theology and longtime faculty member at Harvard Divinity School (HDS), died recently at the age of 84.   He was the Charles Chauncey Stillman Research Professor of Roman Catholic Theological Studies and a mentor to students and scholars across the globe.  Fiorenza joined the Harvard Divinity School faculty in…

The Carr-Ryan Center for Human Rights at Harvard Kennedy School has launched their new Human Rights & U.S. Foreign Policy Fellowship — a bold new initiative designed to preserve human rights as a cornerstone of American diplomacy and global leadership.  At a time of deep geopolitical uncertainty and rising authoritarianism worldwide — and amid growing…

The Kempner Institute for the Study of Natural and Artificial Intelligence announced the names of 13 students chosen as the incoming 2025 cohort of Kempner Graduate Fellows. The 2025 recipients of the Kempner graduate fellowship are: Alex Cai, Jonathan Geuter, Cristine Kalinski, Aayush Karan, Hang Le, Mary Letey, Sarah Liaw, Clara Mohri, Pranav Nair, Jorin…

Bharat Anand, vice provost for Advances in Learning and Henry R. Byers Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School, is departing Harvard on July 31 to become dean of NYU’s Stern School of Business, following an announcement earlier this spring. Anand has led the Office of the Vice Provost for Advances in Learning (VPAL)…

This month, Harvard University welcomed its second cohort of presidential fellows from historically Black colleges and universities to participate in the Seminar for New Presidents. The presidential fellows represent the next generation of HBCU legacy leaders and comprise 10 of the 55 participants of the seminar. They join as participants in Clark Atlanta University’s HBCU Executive Leadership Institute…

As we honor Disability Pride Month (July), it’s essential to recognize how the accelerating climate crisis disproportionately affects people with disabilities and why climate justice must include disability rights at its core. According to The Lancet Planetary Health (2024), more than 1 billion people with disabilities, 80% of whom live in low-income and middle-income countries (LMICs), are…

Jill Kravetz has been named the Bruce and Bridgitt Evans Executive Director of the Harvard Innovation Labs — a University-wide hub that inspires, connects and advances entrepreneurial leaders and innovators. Kravetz brings decades of experience in starting, building and advising companies across industries and stages. After graduating from the Wharton School with an M.B.A. in…

Gita Gopinath will resume her place on the Harvard faculty this fall, returning from a long-term public service leave of absence. In 2018, she was named the first female chief economist at the International Monetary Fund. She was promoted to the IMF’s first deputy managing director in 2022. “I now return to my roots in…

American Repertory Theater (A.R.T.) at Harvard University has commissioned nationally acclaimed Boston-based muralist Rob “ProBlak” Gibbs to partner with the theater and lead the creation of a 200-foot-long mural for its new home. It will be the prolific Boston artist’s first work in Boston’s Allston-Brighton neighborhood. The mural design will be inspired by conversations facilitated…

Harvard Kennedy School is launching the American Service Fellowship — a new initiative that will provide full scholarships for at least 50 public servants and military veterans to enroll next fall for a one-year, fully funded master’s degree. The fellowship, which was announced Thursday, is the largest single-year scholarship program in HKS history, and it…

The Kempner Institute for the Study of Natural and Artificial Intelligence at Harvard has named the recipients of its 2025 Kempner Institute Research Fellowships. The 2025 recipients are Elom Amemastro, Ruojin Cai, David Clark, Alexandru Damian, William Dorrell, Mark Goldstein, Richard Hakim, Hadas Orgad, Gizem Ozdil, Gabriel Poesia, and Greta Tuckute. The 11 fellowship recipients are all…

Seven exceptional instructors have been named as the recipients of this year’s Anya Bernstein Bassett Award for Excellence in Teaching. Established last year, the award celebrates excellence in evidence-based teaching, pedagogical innovation, and fostering inclusive learning environments by non-ladder faculty members such as preceptors, lecturers, and senior lecturers. The recognition, which honors the former director of undergraduate studies for Social…