Carrie Moore was officially welcomed as The Friends of Harvard Women’s Basketball Head Coach in Lavietes Pavilion today (April 6). Moore becomes the fourth head coach in program history, succeeding Kathy Delaney-Smith, who retired this spring after a 40-year tenure. A crowd of nearly 100 colleagues, reporters, family, and friends greeted the Lathrup, Michigan, native.…

Artificial Intelligence (AI) has become critical infrastructure, shaping our personal, social, and political lives, influencing everything from geopolitics, to industry, to the meaning of friendship. As we grow increasingly reliant on digital technologies in ever more spheres of our lives, our dependence on the algorithmic systems that allow those technologies to adapt dynamically to new…

Harvard Kennedy School has received a $5 million gift to establish the James M. and Cathleen D. Stone Program in Wealth Distribution, Inequality, and Social Policy at the School’s Malcolm Wiener Center for Social Policy. The new Stone Program, which builds on the success of the Stone Ph.D. Scholars, will unite faculty, students, and researchers…

The Office of the Vice Provost for Research and the Office of the Vice Provost for International Affairs are pleased to announce the results of the 2022 competition for awards from the Lemann Brazil Research Fund. “We were once again delighted by the caliber of interested applicants in this invaluable opportunity,” said Vice Provost for…

Fellows at the Forefront is an innovative faculty-led summer pilot program where students work together on a series of research, policy, and advocacy projects that focus on some of the world’s most pressing social issues. The first cohort, led by Dustin Tingley, focused on climate change and sustainability issues.   The concept was developed by Harvard’s…

Harvard Radcliffe Institute has awarded its 2022–2023 Exploratory Seminars. Emerging from multiple disciplines and applying bold cross-disciplinary perspectives, the awardees — all Harvard faculty members or Harvard Radcliffe Institute fellows — will hold intensive seminars over the course of the year to explore novel approaches to pressing issues using interdisciplinary research and inquiry. Since the…

Harvard Business School’s (HBS) Baker Library Special Collections announced today the opening of a new exhibit, From Inquiry to Action: Harvard Business School & the Case Method, an exhibition marking the 100th anniversary of the teaching practice. The exhibit runs through November 2022, in the North Lobby of Baker Library | Bloomberg Center on the HBS campus. Since the…

Maia Sandu MC/M.P.A. ’10, who waged a decade-long anti-corruption campaign that led to her becoming the president of Moldova, will deliver the 2022 graduation address at Harvard Kennedy School on Wednesday, May 25, Dean Douglas Elmendorf announced today. Sandu is the first woman to lead her country. After earning her mid-career master in public administration…

Harvard Graduate School of Design announces Gary R. Hilderbrand, M.L.A. ’85 as new chair of the Department of Landscape Architecture, effective July 1, 2022. Hilderbrand is the Peter Louis Hornbeck Professor-in-Practice at the GSD, where he has taught since 1990, and Founding Principal and Partner of Reed Hilderbrand. Hilderbrand succeeds Anita Berrizbeitia, MLA ’87 professor of landscape…

EdRedesign at the Harvard Graduate School of Education has received a $200,000 grant from the Barr Foundation and an anonymous gift of $3 million to establish an Institute for Success Planning to help communities redesign their systems of support and opportunity for children and youth. “These grants represent a huge step forward for EdRedesign. Every child deserves to be…

Historically, professional organizations in the study of religion have ignored the experiences and practices of marginal and new religious movements. The new Program for the Evolution of Spirituality (PES) at Harvard Divinity School is working to ameliorate the marginalization of these spiritual movements through associated courses, ongoing colloquia, and conferences that center the experiences and practices of…

The Harvard Art Museums announce a transformative gift of 21 works of 18th-century American silver from the collection of Daniel A. Pollack and Susan F. Pollack. The gift comprises a range of finely made vessels and table implements intended for domestic use, including cups, bowls, spoons, tankards, and teapots crafted by noted silversmiths from Boston,…

Kevin Young ’92 — poet, author, poetry editor at The New Yorker, and Andrew W. Mellon Director of the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture — released his first book for children, “Emile and the Field,” this month. The lyrical picture book, illustrated by Nigerian American artist Chioma Ebinama, follows a young…

The Friends of Harvard Women’s Basketball Head Coach Kathy Delaney-Smith, who has led the program since 1982, coached her 40th and final season in 2021-22, which concluded March 11 with a semifinal loss in the Ivy League Basketball Tournament, hosted this year in Harvard’s Lavietes Pavilion. Delaney-Smith finished her career with 11 Ivy League Championship…

Harvard Business School (HBS) has received a $10 million gift from Howard Cox (MBA 1969) to support the School’s Health Care Initiative with the goal of improving the quality and driving down the cost of health care in the United States. Cox, a venture capitalist and philanthropist who has been active in health care innovation in the…

“Do you like meat?” That was the first question Kit Parker, the Tarr Family Professor of Bioengineering and Applied Physics at the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS), asked Christophe Chantre when he interviewed for a position in Parker’s Disease Biophysics Group. Parker was looking for people to work on…

Sheila Jasanoff, the Pforzheimer Professor of Science and Technology Studies at Harvard Kennedy School, has been awarded the 2022 Holberg Prize, among the world’s most prestigious awards for academic work in the humanities and social sciences. The Holberg Prize Board announced Sheila Jasanoff as the 2022 laureate today in Oslo, Norway. The annual prize recognizes Jasanoff for…

Lisa J. Kewley has been named the director of the Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian (CfA), effective July 1, 2022. A world leader in the theoretical modeling and observation of star-forming and active galaxies, Kewley brings 20 years of experience in astrophysics to the role. Kewley currently serves as the director of ASTRO…

As part of the Presidential initiative on climate and sustainability, the Office of the Vice Provost for Climate and Sustainability invites proposals from Harvard University ladder faculty for the new Climate Research Clusters Program. The purpose of the Climate Research Clusters Program is to produce useful and impactful solutions to climate problems. Research clusters are…

Marilyn “Merry” Reynolds Duffy Touborg, 77, director of communications for the Office of Human Resources from 1990 to 2004, passed away on March 3. Born on April 14 1944 in Chelsea, Massachusetts, Touborg was the daughter of the late Robert Lee Reynolds and Virginia (Bowman) Morgan. After a childhood living in many different places across…

The Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy at Harvard Kennedy School is proud to announce the six finalists for the 2022 Goldsmith Prize for Investigative Reporting. The Goldsmith Prize, founded in 1991 and funded by a gift from the Greenfield Foundation, honors the best public service investigative journalism that has made an impact…

Theda Skocpol, Ph.D. ’75, is among seven distinguished scholars named  Fellows of the American Academy of Political and Social Science. The AAPSS, one of the nation’s oldest learned societies, elects fellows in recognition of their contributions to advancement of the social sciences. Skocpol, the Victor S. Thomas Professor of Government and Sociology at Harvard University,…

Herbert C. Kelman, the Richard Clarke Cabot Professor of Social Ethics emeritus at Harvard and the director of the Program on International Conflict Analysis and Resolution at the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs (1993-2003), died March 1 in his Cambridge, Massachusetts, home. He was 94 Born in Vienna in 1927, Kelman’s family fled the Nazis,…

Harvard and Boston University have been awarded a new grant of $3 million from the State House to support the development of next-generation robotics and wearable technologies. Researchers aim to improve the lives of people with neuro-motor impairments and to help individuals achieve ambitious fitness goals, driving innovation in a new category of rehabilitation, diagnostic, and assistive devices that are more lightweight, affordable, and connected. Led by Harvard John…

EdRedesign at the Harvard Graduate School of Education (HGSE) has received a $200,000 grant from the Barr Foundation and an anonymous gift of $3 million to establish an Institute for Success Planning to help communities redesign their systems of support and opportunity for children and youth. “These grants represent a huge step forward for EdRedesign. Every…

“One of the most remarkable aspects of the tragic events in Ukraine concerns the sudden uprising of thousands or even millions of ordinary citizens,” write the Kennedy School’s Pippa Norris and Kseniya Kizilova, an associated research fellow at V.N.Karazin Kharkiv National University in Ukraine, in a newly published analysis examining the motivation behind the staunch…

Through his research, Ph.D. student Zid Mancenido has come to realize that as college students think about future careers, the decision to enter the classroom to teach isn’t always marked by good or bad experiences in school or notoriously low salaries. For high-achieving students attending elite universities in particular, the decision to become a teacher often doesn’t…

Since 2002, the Alumni of Color Conference (AOCC) has been a signature event that cultivates conversations from Harvard Graduate School of Education alumni across the country. Through their unique perspectives, expertise, and research, HGSE alums hope to inspire students with current and timeless topics, with a specific focus on the educational experience of learners of color.…