International development needs scholars from a variety of backgrounds and the input of practitioners, Nobel Laureate Michael Kremer told the audience at a special event organized by Harvard’s Center for…

On Tuesday, the Harvard Innovation Labs announced the 12 ventures selected to participate in the second annual Launch Lab X program, a nine-month startup accelerator for Harvard alumni-led companies. “When…

Terry Tempest Williams, Harvard Divinity School’s (HDS) writer-in-residence, and film producer Geralyn White Dreyfous have curated a special film series that is open to the Harvard community and to the…

The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH), in partnership with the U.S. Department of Education, has awarded a $650,000 cooperative agreement to a collaborative of experts who will work together…

David Davidson, managing director of Harvard University Dining Services (HUDS), and Crista Martin, director of strategic initiatives and communications at HUDS, were honored with the first ever Visionary Award from…

Pakistan’s top government finance officials joined Harvard Kennedy School professors in weighing policy choices to improve economic growth in the wake of the country’s recent debt crisis. At a conference…

The expansion of medical knowledge, together with advancements in biomedical research, are presenting extraordinary opportunities to train future health care leaders to deliver increasingly complex levels of patient care. At…

The Education Redesign Lab (EdRedesign), based at the Harvard Graduate School of Education (HGSE), released a new report today titled, “Sustaining Cross-Sector Systems of Opportunity for Children: Interim Lessons from…

In a move to offer broader interprofessional training, Harvard Medical School has received an accreditation term from the American Nurses Credentialing Center, making the School an accredited provider of continuing education…

Women scientists were 21 percent less likely to author invited commentaries in medical journals during a five-year period than men with similar scientific expertise, seniority, and publication metrics, according to…

Two Harvard scientists have been named to the New York Stem Cell Foundation (NYSCF) Investigator Program. As part of the 2019 class of NYSCF – Robertson Investigators, Ya-Chieh Hsu and…

Thirty-five years ago, the Arnold Arboretum of Harvard University began offering free programs for elementary school students called Field Study Experiences (FSE), opening the gates of nature and science to…

Eileen McNeely, co-founder and director of the Sustainability and Health Initiative for NetPositive Enterprise (SHINE) at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health tells CNN Travel that the health…

Lisa Dreier will become the next managing director of the Harvard Advanced Leadership Initiative (ALI). ALI is a third stage in higher education designed to harness the skills and vision…

On Oct. 10, Roy Gordon and Michael Aziz received a 2019 Eni Award for Innovation in Energy during a ceremony held at the Palazzo del Quirinale in Italy. Every year since 2007, Eni, a…

Dan Congreve, Rowland Fellow at the Rowland Institute at Harvard, has been named one of the Moore Inventor Fellows. Launched in 2016 to celebrate the 50th anniversary of Moore’s Law,…

With negotiators from more than 100 countries preparing to gather in Santiago, Chile, for the 25th annual international climate conference (COP25, for Conference of the Parties) in December, attention is…

Tarana Burke, civil rights activist and founder of the global #MeToo movement for survivors of sexual assault, has been chosen as this year’s recipient of Harvard Kennedy School’s Center for…

A detailed analysis of midterm voter turnout figures from the 2018 elections shows that the percentage of eligible Harvard students who turned up at the polls nearly doubled when compared…

The Office of the Vice Provost for Research recently made awards to five early career science scholars comprising the 2019 cohort of the Aramont Fund for Emerging Science Research fellows.…

More than 700 Harvard Extension School (HES) degree candidates and their guests gathered for the school’s second Convocation inside of Memorial Church this weekend. Students traveled from as far as…

Harvard’s Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study was one of seven Boston-area higher education institutions to host Boston Public School students on Aug. 5­–9 as part of the Summer of HOPE…

Harvard University has established a multi-year research collaboration with the biotech company Moderna, Inc., with the goal of identifying and developing novel therapeutic approaches that could improve the lives of…

“Exercising or eating spinach will not make us healthy. What makes us healthy is society,” said Columbia professor and psychiatrist Mindy R. Fullilove, author of “Root Shock” (2004). Fullilove spoke at the 2019 Urban Activism conference which…

The Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics is accepting applications for three exciting fellowship opportunities. The Fellows-in-Residence program invites applications from a broad range of researchers and practitioners who will work over…

Harvard ethicist and author Danielle Allen will be honored this fall for her contributions to the humanities in the Bay State when she accepts her 2019 Governor’s Award in the…

Charles Maier ’60, Ph.D. ’67, the Leverett Saltonstall Professor of History and resident faculty at the Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies (CES), recently retired, after 50 years of…

The Harvard Innovation Labs (HIL) is thrilled to announce the student-founded ventures that will participate in the 2019 Fall Venture Incubation Program. The Harvard Innovation Labs’ primary purpose is to…