Five projects have been selected as the 2025 awardees for the Motsepe Presidential Research Accelerator Fund for Africa, announced by the Office of the Vice Provost for Research and the Office of the Vice Provost for International Affairs, in collaboration with the Harvard University Center for African Studies. The primary purpose of the fund is…

Harvard University Dining Services (HUDS) is excited to announce that Harvard University has won the 2025 Greenest University Award from the Green Restaurant Association. Harvard University has 19 Certified Green Restaurants on Cambridge and Boston campuses, including all the undergraduate dining halls and multiple professional Schools and campus cafes. The Green Restaurant Association is a…

For over a century, the Cambrian arthropod Helmetia expansa remained a mystery. Discovered by paleontologist Charles Doolittle Walcott in 1918, it was initially classified as a crustacean. Despite frequent mentions in research papers, this species has never been formally described, and only one specimen has ever been illustrated. Now, in a new study published in…

Many of the skills that humans consider intelligent involve conscious effort, including prediction, long-term planning, and abstract problem solving. Movement, by contrast, is something most people take for granted. It seems effortless and intuitive — a world away from the kinds of activities typically evoked by the word “intelligence.” But for Patrick Slade, Kempner Institute associate faculty…

Twenty Harvard University faculty are among the nearly 250 members elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the academy announced on Wednesday. Since 1780, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences has honored excellence and convened leaders from across disciplines and divides to examine new ideas, address issues of importance, and work together…

It was a moment Parastoo Khoshakhlagh vividly recalls. At the time, she was a postdoctoral fellow in Professor George Church’s lab at Harvard Medical School, working to rapidly create oligodendrocytes — the cells responsible for forming the brain’s protective membrane around nerve cells — in just four days, a process that typically takes weeks to…

The Documentary Film in the Public Interest Initiative at Harvard Kennedy School’s Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy announced the honorees for the inaugural Henry Awards for Public Interest Documentary. The 2025 Henry Awards Jury released the following statement about this year’s award-winning film: “‘While We Watched’ is an exceptional cautionary tale that…

Ashley Adirika ’26, a government concentrator with a secondary in sociology, and Eva Frazier ’26, a social studies concentrator with a secondary in ethnicity, migration, rights, were named 2025 Truman Scholars. They join a cohort of 54 new Truman Scholars selected from 288 colleges and universities. “Resourceful, patriotic leaders, today’s Truman Scholars would make President…

The practice of pilgrimage often involves a journey into an unknown land, undertaken by individuals seeking to discover new understanding and meaning through the portal of experience. In six intensive days, 14 University students, researchers, and educators traveled to Vancouver Island in Canada’s Pacific Northwest to engage in cultural sharing with Indigenous knowledge holders, scientists,…

Three Harvard affiliates were awarded Guggenheim Fellowships this week, winning support for groundbreaking work in sociology, Jewish studies, and sculpture. Professor of Sociology Christopher Muller, M.A. ’11, Ph.D. ’14, will use the funds to study long-run patterns in the incarceration rates of Black and white Americans, from the Reconstruction era (1865-1877) to the present. The…

For the last decade, the Scholarship and Social Justice Undergraduate Research Conference has been a platform to uplift undergraduate students’ research focused on challenges facing society. The event, co-sponsored by the Center for Public Service and Engaged Scholarship at Harvard College and the Harvard Foundation for Intercultural and Race Relations, connects student presenters with faculty…

A key goal of neuroscience is understanding how the brain processes disparate streams of information from both the external world and from within the body. When neuroscientists measure activity within the brain, these incoming streams of information are often “entangled,” making it difficult to identify what specific inputs a neuron or group of neurons is…

Global health experts from across Harvard University and around the world gathered at the 2025 Global Health Symposium on April 10 to address some of the most critical issues in global health. Organized by the Harvard Global Health Institute, the full-day symposium featured a keynote address by Rhonda Sealy-Thomas, assistant director, Pan American Health Organization (PAHO), United Nations,…

On March 30, the Let’s Talk! Conference, an initiative promoting the success and well-being of Asian and Asian American students, hosted legendary journalist Connie Chung at Askwith Hall. The event, moderated by Josephine Kim, highlighted Chung’s groundbreaking career as the first woman to co-anchor the CBS Evening News and the first Asian to anchor any…

Harvard Business School (HBS) has announced that five distinguished graduates will receive the School’s highest honor, the Alumni Achievement Award. The award is given annually to recognize alumni who are leaders in their fields and who exemplify the mission, highest standards, and values of the School. As role models of outstanding leadership for HBS’s graduating students,…

John Rice, M.B.A. ’92, founder and CEO of Management Leadership for Tomorrow (MLT), a nationally recognized nonprofit dedicated to increasing economic mobility and building inclusive, meritocratic workplaces, will be the Harvard Business School (HBS) Class Day alumni speaker on May 28. The celebration will take place on the Baker Lawn at the School’s campus in…

Marcella Alsan has been named to the list, which recognizes the world’s most influential people in the health sciences and life sciences fields.

The Office of the Vice Provost for Research and the Office of the Vice Provost for International Affairs are pleased to announce the awardees from the 2025 cycle of the Lemann Brazil Research Fund. Established in 2016 by a generous gift from the Lemann Foundation, the Lemann Brazil Research Fund supports research projects across a…

The New Ventures Competition is open to all students and alumni interested in launching new business and social impact ventures. The School’s Arthur Rock Center for Entrepreneurship and Social Enterprise Initiative (SEI), host the annual competition with support from HBS Alumni Relations. This year, 245 teams participated in the competition — 94 in the Student Business Track, 35 in the…

Using AI for fatigue risk management amongst aviation and transportation workers, expanding visual arts education to grade school students across India, and inventing a new financial platform for supporting relatives living abroad, are three of the 25 initiatives that have been recognized as finalists in the 2025 Harvard President’s Innovation Challenge. “The President’s Innovation Challenge continues…

James Robins, the Mitchell L. and Robin LaFoley Dong Professor of Epidemiology at the T.H. Chan School of Public Health, has been recognized with the 2025 Distinguished Achievement Award and Lectureship by the Committee of Presidents of Statistical Societies (COPSS). The prestigious annual honor, previously known as the RA Fisher Award and Lectureship, recognizes what…

A beloved celebration for all, the weeklong 39th Annual Cultural Rhythms Festival opens Monday at Harvard Commons at the Smith Campus Center with the second annual Cultural Fashion Show and Artist Reveal at 6 p.m. In early February, a call was issued for any Harvard College student who wished to walk in this year’s fashion…

Some of cities’ most complex challenges — like chronic flooding in Charleston, South Carolina; derelict, unsafe housing in Shreveport, Louisiana, and Winnipeg, Canada; and youth at risk in Rosario, Argentina — require collaborative approaches across government, business, nonprofits, and communities.  In mid-March, the Bloomberg Harvard City Leadership Initiative brought 77 participants from multiple sectors to…

The Harvard Global Health Institute welcomed the 2024 Harvard LEAD Fellows to campus this week. The three fellows, Cindy Chan Tha, Wanza Mbole, and Jalikatu Mustapha, will begin their in-person programming at Harvard University.

The Harvard Global Health Institute has announced its 2024-2025 cohort of Visiting Research Scholars. This newly launched program provides Harvard faculty with an opportunity to strengthen collaboration with international researchers in global health. Through a six-week, in-person residency in Cambridge, the program fosters deeper academic engagement and advances joint research initiatives. The 2024–2025 scholars Professor Camila Gianella…

A new paper, published in JAMA Network Open, finds a surprising number of Americans traveling out-of-state for cancer care. The study, co-authored by Center for Geographic Analysis research associate Lingbo Liu, focuses on older adults whose treatment is covered by traditional Medicare, with the most striking results concerning rural Americans. Rural cancer patients in the study’s sample were about…

The Harvard Business School (HBS) Rock Center for Entrepreneurship and the Social Enterprise Initiative recently hosted the second annual Demo Day, a showcase event for early-stage investors. Highlighting a wide variety of student ventures emerging from the School, the event was led by Rock Center faculty members Julia Austin, Lindsay Hyde, Allison Mnookin, and Christina Wallace. Select student teams delivered three-minute pitches to…