Harvard College student Marissa Sumathipala ’22 and Harvard graduate student James Diao are among the 18 recipients selected for the prestigious Churchill Scholarships and Kanders Churchill Scholarship in Science Policy.…

Many aspects of education in the United States today were not designed for people with disabilities. Whether it’s a video lecture without captions that deaf students are unable to learn…

With landmark voting rights legislation stalled in Congress, calls for eliminating or modifying the filibuster have increased as some states work to tighten restrictions on voting ahead of the 2022…

After six years of service and mentorship, Faculty Directors Guhan Subramanian (HBS) and Helen Clement will be transitioning out of their Graduate Commons Program (GCP) roles. The couple, who reside…

Harvard University’s Advanced Leadership Initiative (ALI) announced the selection of its 2022 fellowship cohort, which is notable for its significant international representation, professional, and gender diversity.  Nineteen of the group’s fellows…

Eight Harvard students and alumni were named Schwarzman Scholars in December 2021 to attend Beijing’s Tsinghua University. The award funds a yearlong master’s degree program in global affairs. This year’s…

Research from Harvard Chan SHINE was chosen as a 2021 Paper of the Year by the American Journal of Health Promotion. In the paper, Character Strengths Involving an Orientation to…

Ph.D. candidate Becca Bassett, was working to support low-income, first-generation college students with weekly check-in calls, individualized academic assistance, and mental health resources through a program she’d founded with the Sunflower…

The Growth Lab has over 50 faculty, fellows, research assistants, and staff working on development challenges in more than a dozen countries worldwide. Across its multidisciplinary team, the Growth Lab…

Dean Bridget Long has announced that five faculty members have been awarded named faculty chairs: Susan Dynarski, Heather Hill, Nonie Lesaux, Meira Levinson, and Catherine Snow. Hill’s chair, the Hazen-Nicoli Professorship in Teacher Learning and Leadership, is…

Applications are being accepted now for the 2021-22 Climate Change Solutions Fund grants cycle, with a deadline of Feb. 7, 2022. Eligible faculty and students are invited to submit proposals…

The recently issued 2021 “Thinkers50” listing of influential management thinkers includes six Harvard Business School faculty members in its list of honorees. The HBS scholars who were recognized include: Amy Edmondson, a…

On Dec. 12, Harvard University President Larry Bacow will formally install the Rev. Matthew Ichihashi Potts as the Pusey Minister and Plummer Professor of Christian Morals in the Memorial Church,…

Earlier this year, Dell Marie Hamilton was named as one of the recipients of the ICA/Boston’s 2021 James and Audrey Foster Prize. While Hamilton has worked in a variety of…

Harvard Business School (HBS) announced the appointment of Elizabeth Clark to the role of chief information officer, effective Jan. 3, 2022. She will oversee a talented group of information technology…

The Mittal Institute’s Faculty Director, Tarun Khanna, announced the appointment of Hitesh Hathi as executive director. He will join the Institute on Dec. 7, 2021. In his new role, Hathi…

The Harvard Innovation Labs has kicked off the 2022 President’s Innovation Challenge (PIC), a competition designed to harness creativity and ingenuity from across the University to generate solutions to the world’s…

A SARS-CoV-2 variant with traits similar to that of the Delta variant — enhanced transmissibility and an ability to infect people who had previous infections/vaccination—will cause a more severe pandemic with more infections and…

In October 2021, The Graduate Student Affairs Circle (Grad Circle) held its annual Grad Fest celebration specifically for Harvard graduate student and their families. Grad Circle aims to reinforce Harvard’s commitment to…

As the temperature hovered above 40 degrees, Harvard students bundled up in their crimson spirit wear headed to the Yale Bowl for the 137th playing of The Game. But festivities…

The Harvard football team capped the 2021 season on Saturday, Nov. 20 with an epic victory over Yale at the Yale Bowl in New Haven. The Crimson pulled off a…

The Harvard field hockey team concluded a remarkable post-season run on Friday [11/19], falling to Northwestern, 2-1, in overtime, in a thrilling national semifinal game. After winning the Ivy League…

The most recent report of the Corporation Committee on Shareholder Responsibility (CCSR), a committee of the President and Fellows, is now available on the Shareholder Responsibility Committees’ website. The report…

With a 5-2 victory over Brown on Saturday, Nov. 13, Katey Stone, the Landry Family Head Coach for Harvard Women’s Hockey, achieved the 500th win of her coaching career, the…

A spirited team of Harvard football players took the field in Harvard Stadium on Saturday, Nov. 13, but it wasn’t just this year’s squad. As the current roster of Crimson…

While many educators this past year faced computer screens full of silent, black Zoom squares instead of a bustling classroom with enthusiastic raised hands, others — in districts like Nashville,…

The Harvard Graduate School of Education has launched the Teaching and Teacher Leadership (TTL) master’s program — the last leg of its seven-year effort to reimagine how the school will prepare education professionals to…

The Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business & Government (M-RCBG) at Harvard Kennedy School is pleased to announce the appointment of Dan Murphy as M-RCBG’s new executive director. Murphy joins the Center…