Bret Johnston, Paul and Catherine Buttenwieser Director of Creative Writing and senior lecturer on English, has won the 2017 Sunday Times EFG Short Story Award for his story, “Half of…

Pedro Lamothe-Molina, Ph.D. ’17, hopes to continue researching infectious diseases while taking care of patients and racing the occasional triathlon In 1996, Pedro Lamothe-Molina applied to medical school in his…

Harvard Public Affairs and Communication’s own Elizabeth Asefa was recently honored by Breakthrough Greater Boston with its Breakthrough Spirit Award at its 25th anniversary celebration. Asefa is an alumna of…

The Harvard University Advanced Leadership Initiative (ALI) has released its 2017 Culture of Health Deep Dive Report. The report summarizes the proceedings from ALI’s Deep Dive event, a two-day intensive…

Writer and activist Terry Tempest Williams will join Harvard Divinity School (HDS) as a writer-in-residence for the 2017–18 academic year. At HDS, Williams will spend time contemplating and writing about the…

On April 8, 2017, Pavel Krapivin, HBS ’11 and co-founder of VelvetJobs, spoke at the Harvard Graduate Council’s Leadership Conference about risk taking and fears. Recent trip to Playa del Carmen…

The Memorial Church is fully open to the Harvard Community following an eight-month renovation designed to transform the 85-year-old building into a more accessible, comfortable and versatile place for the…

Kathryn Rough, SD ’17, uses deep quantitative analysis skills to examine drug-related health issues Kathryn Rough is a self-professed data junkie. As a doctoral student in epidemiology at Harvard T.H.…

Massachusetts is in the midst of an opioid epidemic resulting in an unprecedented numbers of overdoses and deaths. On Wednesday, May 3, from 6:30-8 p.m., the Harvard Ed Portal will…

Gregory Curci can look at a piece of cast metal and read the craftsman’s skill like an archeologist brushing away the sand from a long-forgotten artifact. Deep in the lines…

The Harvard Graduate School of Design (GSD) announces an inaugural design-build installation at the Grove, located at North Harvard Street and Western Avenue in Allston, expected to open to the…

Todne Thomas, an anthropologist who specializes in religion, race, and kinship, has been named Assistant Professor of African American Religions at Harvard Divinity School and a Suzanne Young Murray Assistant…

A group of over thirty activists from the Afro-Cuban movement visited Harvard on April 14-15 to attend a gathering sponsored by the Afro-Latin American Research Institute (ALARI), Hutchins Center for…

Jason Furman has been named Professor of the Practice of Economic Policy at Harvard Kennedy School (HKS), it was announced today by HKS Dean Douglas Elmendorf. Furman served as chairman…

The Center for Public Leadership (CPL) at Harvard Kennedy School (HKS) has named civil rights activist and U.S. Representative John Lewis (Georgia, 5th District) as this year’s recipient of the…

Harvard Divinity School Professor Janet Gyatso has been named among this year’s class of national and international leaders elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Gyatso, the Hershey…

Sara Bleich, professor of public health policy at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, recently co-authored a Perspective in the New England Journal of Medicine that offered ideas for…

Last week, Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Alphonse Fletcher University Professor and Director of the Hutchins Center for African & African American Research at Harvard University, and Luis Almagro, Secretary General…