On any given week throughout the year, Harvard is home to a variety of lectures and seminars on topics of global importance, from addressing climate change to preserving democracy to…

Harvard Kennedy School faculty member Elizabeth Linos has been awarded the prestigious David N. Kershaw Award and Prize for her research on how governments can build a more effective workforce and provide…

Large and atomistic are not words that typically go together but the systems that Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) Professor Boris Kozinsky and his team are most interested…

Harvard Business School (HBS) has announced its newest cohort of 55 Executive Fellows for the 2023-2024 academic year. The Executive Fellows Program seeks to leverage the expertise of outstanding practitioners…

Cengiz Pehlevan, an associate faculty member at the Kempner Institute and assistant professor of applied mathematics at Harvard, has been awarded the prestigious NSF Career Award for his project titled…

Sol Carbonell, associate director of the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies, was honored in early September for her continued efforts to uplift the Latinx community in Massachusetts. The…

Stefanie Stantcheva, the Nathaniel Ropes Professor of Political Economy, is one of two U.S.-based social science researchers to win the 2023 A.SK Bright Mind Award. Granted by the Berlin Social…

The Hutchins Center for African & African American Research announced its newest cohort of W.E.B. Du Bois Medal honorees on Sept. 26. The eight Hutchins Center Honors recipients will be…

Nine new senior fellows have joined the Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government (M-RCBG) at Harvard Kennedy School. At the center, they will work on individual research projects addressing critical…

Jeffrey Abbott is a logical guy. As a graduate student and then a postdoctoral scholar at Harvard, he was already several rungs up the academic ladder. Next rung: professorship. But,…

With responsibilities that ranged from creating promotional content for University outreach efforts, to assisting with laboratory experiments, 43 Cambridge and Boston teens gained valuable work experience and exposure to a…

Generative AI tools such as OpenAI’s ChatGPT, Microsoft’s Bing Chat, and Google’s Bard have rapidly emerged as the most talked-about topic in technology, provoking a range of reactions — from…

Harvard Athletics has announced the renaming of its men’s basketball locker room for Head Coach Tommy Amaker. The first-of-its-kind honor, effective upon Amaker’s future retirement, was made possible by a…

The Glenn Foundation for Medical Research (GFMR) and the American Federation for Aging Research (AFAR) recently announced the inaugural recipients of the 2023 Glenn Foundation Discovery Awards, including Ya-Chieh Hsu,…

Federico Capasso, the Robert L. Wallace Professor of Applied Physics and Vinton Hayes Senior Research Fellow in Electrical Engineering at the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied…

Harvard Business School (HBS) announced that Rupal Gadhia, MBA ’04, will be the next managing director of MBA Admissions and Financial Aid. In her role, Gadhia will partner with a variety of…

For the first time, researchers have counted the precise number of US health care regulators who leave for jobs in private industry. A new study, titled “The Revolving Door in…

The Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health Alumni Association recently announced the recipients of the 2023 Alumni Awards. The awards will be presented during this year’s Alumni Weekend, which takes place…

Internationally renowned scholar of democracy and state-building in Europe, Daniel Ziblatt, has been named the new director of the Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies (CES). Ziblatt, who serves…

Hundreds gathered on an unusually warm fall day to celebrate the 50th year of the Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian. The daylong event included guided tours of the…

Ten doctoral candidates from the Harvard Kenneth C. Griffin Graduate School of Arts and Sciences have been selected for the Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad Program. The merit-based award provides…

Search-and-rescue operations in the central Mediterranean do not lead to more migrant crossings, a new study co-authored by Stefano Iacus, director of Data Science and Product Research at the Institute…

Talia Konkle, professor of psychology and leading vision scientist, has been named faculty director of the Mind Brain Behavior (MBB) Interfaculty Initiative. “I am delighted that Talia Konkle has agreed…

Theresa Lungu loved walking on the bumpy dirt road to the tiny municipal library in Luanshya, almost four miles from her home in the Copperbelt Province of Zambia. She was…

Harvard University Health Services (HUHS) recently announced two additions to its senior leadership team. Kathy G. Niknejad will serve as chief medical officer (CMO) and physician in chief, and Kimberly…

Since 1990, the Harvard Alumni Association has bestowed the HAA Awards to distinguished alumni in recognition of their outstanding service to Harvard University through leadership and engagement activities. Continuing this…

The Kempner Institute for the Study of Natural and Artificial Intelligence at Harvard University announces the appointment of Kanaka Rajan as its first faculty member hired within the recently launched…