Librarian of Congress Carla Hayden announced today that Danielle Allen, director of the Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics and the James Bryant Conant University Professor at Harvard University, will…

During isolation, the Graduate Commons Program (GCP) has had to get creative about the ways in which they maintain connections to students. Before COVID-19 arrived, GCP staff could host upwards…

“I’m not someone who can cook for one or two people,” said Akeisha Hayde, executive chef for Residential Dining at Harvard University Dining Services. That’s a true dilemma for a…

Celebrate the longest day of the year and mark the beginning of summer with the Harvard Museums of Science & Culture (HMSC)! While museums are not open to the public…

The Education Redesign Lab (EdRedesign) at the Harvard Graduate School of Education has announced that the City of Poughkeepsie, NY recently joined a consortium of cities participating in the By All…

A public health professor conducting research on COVID-19. An international student attending virtual classes in a different time zone. A staff member still reporting to work on an eerily quiet…

The Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government (M-RCBG) at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government awarded the 2019 John T. Dunlop Prize in Business and Government to Laura Nicolae ’20. Nicolae…

Christina Cross, a postdoctoral fellow, lecturer, and incoming assistant professor of sociology, received the 2020 Dissertation Award from the American Sociological Association last month. The award recognizes the best doctoral…

Recent graduates of the Class of 2020 Catherine Kerner, Cecil Williams II, and Adele Woodmansee received the Taliesin Prize for Distinction in the Art of Learning this week. Kerner concentrated…

The Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation has awarded Harvard Professor Amir Yacoby a $1.6 million Emergent Phenomena in Quantum Systems (EPiQS) Initiative grant. The five-year grant will allow Yacoby to…

This week, the Harvard Art Museums launched a collection of online tours of the special exhibition “Painting Edo: Japanese Art from the Feinberg Collection.” The series is made possible through…

Scientists at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute are participating as lead investigators in a clinical test of a blood cancer drug in patients infected with the COVID-19 virus. The test follows several…

The W.E.B. Du Bois Research Institute at the Hutchins Center for African & African American Research at Harvard University recently announced the 2020-21 class of fellows. According to Director and…

The Center for Jewish Studies at Harvard University announced this week the recipients of the 2020 Selma and Lewis Weinstein Prize in Jewish Studies. Sonia Epstein ’21 of Eliot House…

Graduate study at Harvard is a full-time job and many students are juggling school, parenting, and homeschooling — all from inside their apartments. Kaitlin Roberson, an Ed.M. candidate at the…

Harvard College’s Advising Programs Office awarded 12 advisers from across the University with the prestigious Star Family Prize for Excellence in Advising. The Star Prizes were established by James A. Star ’83 to…

This week, the Office of the Vice Provost for Research and the Office of the Vice Provost for International Affairs announced the 2020 awardees of the Lemann Brazil Research Fund.…

This week, the Harvard Art Museums announced a new range of free digital offerings, providing audiences at home the opportunity to engage with the museums while temporarily closed. A newly…

Fifteen faculty members have been awarded 2020 Walter Channing Cabot Fellowships for their outstanding publications: Dimiter Angelov, Dunbarton Oaks Professor of Byzantine History, “The Byzantine Hellene: The Life of the…

As a follow-up to the “Roadmap to Pandemic Resilience,” which calls for massively scaled up programs of testing, tracing and supported isolation (TTSI) as a means to safely re-open the…

Brandon Terry and Jie Li received the 2020 Roslyn Abramson Award for excellence in teaching undergraduates. The annual award is given to assistant or associate professors and was formally announced…

In mid-March when undergraduate students were preparing to quickly leave campus, most Harvard University Housing residents remained in place. The Graduate Commons Program (GCP) continues to serve them to combat…

In celebration of Radcliffe Day 2020 and the 20th anniversary of the founding of the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Dean Tomiko Brown-Nagin will be joined by Drew Gilpin Faust,…

Robert Satcher Jr., an alumnus of the Harvard-MIT Program in Health Sciences and Technology and a NASA astronaut, will be this year’s Harvard Medical School (HMS) and Harvard School of…

Bryan Stevenson J.D./M.P.P. ’85, a widely acclaimed public interest lawyer, founder and executive director of the Equal Justice Initiative and best-selling author of “Just Mercy,” will be the speaker for…

Since the World Health Organization declared COVID-19 a Public Health Concern of Global Interest on Jan. 30, more than one million have tested positive for the illness in the United States,…

When Harvard announced that the remainder of the Spring 2020 semester would be completed online, educators were pressed to alter their carefully-crafted curricula for the digital sphere. For Arvid Bell,…

As students and educators struggle with emergency online instruction, and many reluctantly prepare for distance learning in the fall, quality online educational resources have never been more critical. The Pluralism…

Harvard University and Astellas Pharma Inc. have established a three-year strategic research alliance to support multiple, multi-year research projects initiated by faculty at Harvard, focused on the research and development…