Harvard University’s Advanced Leadership Initiative (ALI) announced the selection of its 2024 fellowship cohort, which is notable for its significant international representation and broad sector diversity. On Jan. 8, ALI…

A diminutive, snow-covered moon of Saturn called Enceladus has taken first place among candidates for hosting life in our solar system, according to a joint Harvard-NASA study.  Led by Griffin…

Caroline Jean Fernald has been named executive director of Harvard Museums of Science and Culture, Hopi Hoekstra, Edgerley Family Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences announced today. Fernald…

Even as tensions over the Israel-Hamas war have approached the boiling point on campuses across the United States, the Harvard Kennedy School’s Middle East Initiative has hosted a series of…

Concluding a two-year investigation, researchers at Harvard Kennedy School’s Growth Lab have issued a stark diagnosis of the “collapsing state capacity” in South Africa after decades of policy failures, mismanagement, and patronage, with…

A steady stream of students from Harvard Schools met with representatives from The World Bank, Ceres, NRDC, the U.S. Department of Energy, the Green Corps, and dozens of other employers…

The Harvard Art Museums have acquired an important gift of “Medals for Dishonor,” a critical early work by preeminent 20th-century sculptor David Smith (American, 1906–1965). The gift from the artist’s…

The convergence of semiconductor technology and drug discovery holds great promise in the pursuit for new medications and therapies. But drug discovery is notorious for being lengthy, inefficient, costly, and…

Bonnie Talbert and David Elmer have been named the new faculty deans of Eliot House, Danoff Dean of Harvard College Rakesh Khurana announced today. They will start their roles July…

Obatala Sciences, a biotechnology company that manufactures stem cells and human-derived hydrogels, announced the accomplishment of a major milestone with the commercial launch of its ObaCell Obesity-on-a-Chip Service. The new service…

Coinciding with United Nations Climate Change Conference COP28 in Dubai, the Lakshmi Mittal and Family South Asia Institute recently released a new policy brief, “Climate Change in South Asia: Requisites…

Evidence from a new study suggests that Black women in teams with a greater number of white peers may have worse job outcomes. This finding may offer a starting point for improving…

Harvard’s Growth Lab has released a new report on Lebanon’s struggling economy that revisits the origins of the crisis and proposes a comprehensive plan for a swift economic recovery. The research project, led…

The  Center for International Development  at Harvard University, in collaboration with Harvard Radcliffe Institute , and the Lakshmi Mittal and Family South Asia Institute, announced the 2023 Global Empowerment Meeting  Incubation Fund recipients,…

Drummer, composer, producer, educator, and activist Terri Lyne Carrington was honored with the Luise Vosgerchian Teaching Award by the Office for the Arts at Harvard and the Department of Music. …

Harvard celebrated  First-Generation Visibility Week, Nov. 3-9. Launched last year, the week included a series of events aimed to empower, celebrate, and validate the identities of first-generation students at the…

When autistic children transition into early adulthood, they lose access to many of the services and benefits provided by pediatric practices. From the age of 18 onward, these individuals and…

Gabby DelPico ’24 was honored at the 2023 Athlete Ally Action Awards in New York City for her foundational work at Harvard’s Athlete Ally chapter, which was recognized for its…

The Kempner Institute for the Study of Natural and Artificial Intelligence at Harvard University announced today the formation of its scientific advisory board (SAB), composed of visionaries in the fields…

Ashvin Vishwanath, the George Vasmer Leverett Professor of Physics, has received the 2024 Oliver E. Buckley Condensed Matter Physics Prize from the American Physical Society. He is being recognized for…

Joseph Henrich, the Ruth Moore Professor of Biological Anthropology, has been awarded the 2023 Panmure House Prize “for his research on how collective thinking drives cultural innovation.” The annual prize…

Carlos Argüelles-Delgado, assistant professor in the Department of Physics, is among the 2023 Packard Fellows for Science and Engineering, announced by the David and Lucile Packard Foundation this week. Exploring…

The Kempner Institute for the Study of Natural and Artificial Intelligence at Harvard has purchased 384 H100-80 GB Nvidia graphics processing units (GPUs). These GPUs will be added to the…

Harvard will create a Study of Psychedelics in Society and Culture with a gift from the Gracias Family Foundation, the University announced today. The study, an interdisciplinary effort across the…

Harvard University has entered into a collaboration with Novo Nordisk and Evotec SE, to establish LAB eN², a translational drug discovery accelerator that aims to nurture preclinical research from academic institutions for…

The term surveillance may suggest images of high-tech cameras or George Orwell’s ever-watching Big Brother, but surveillance involves more than watching and being watched. To understand surveillance and its consequences,…