Tagalog language courses will be taught at Harvard for the first time this fall, along with Indonesian and Thai. The Harvard University Asia Center and the Department of South Asian…

The Institute of Politics at Harvard Kennedy School has announced the appointment of seven Resident Fellows and two Visiting Fellows who will join the IOP for the fall 2023 semester.…

First-year Bimba Carpenter lifted her artwork from the table. Moments earlier, she had finished a design, carefully rendered in puff paint on a rectangle of fabric, featuring laughing people and…

Live streaming of Sunday services at the Memorial Church will kick off when fall term opens this September, capping off a two-year renovation project of the church’s audio-visual system. The…

Australia-Harvard Fellowships 2024 program is accepting applications through Oct. 9. Offered by the Harvard Club of Australia Foundation supporting learned exchange between Harvard University and Australia, the fellowships are aimed…

Do you have an idea for an initiative that will embrace and promote the importance of mental health and well-being for students? Consider applying to the Wellbeing Project Fund. The…

A new crop of Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health students got their official welcome to the School when Orientation kicked off on Aug. 21. The week’s worth of…

The Harvard Art Museums have appointed Micha Winkler Thomas as their new deputy director. Winkler Thomas will serve in a senior leadership position, working alongside the director, and will oversee…

Life Sciences Research Foundation has announced funding for 18 early career postdoctoral researchers in all areas of life sciences, including two from Harvard. These researchers will receive funding over the…

The Healthcare Policy Program at Harvard Kennedy School is pleased to announce that it has named Sherry Yang as the 2023-2024 recipient of the Jerome H. Grossman M.D. Graduate Fellowship.…

The Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology has wrapped up its second annual High School Lab Skills summer intern program, providing an immersive learning experience for a group of local…

Harvard’s Institute of Politics (IOP) Director Setti Warren has announced the appointment of Morgan Brown as the new executive director of the IOP.   Brown brings to the role a deep…

A new lactation room accessible to the entire Harvard community has opened at 1414 Massachusetts Ave. The tranquil fourth-floor space, a collaboration between the Faculty of Arts and Sciences and…

A group of faculty led by Jason Beckfield, the Robert G. Stone Jr. Professor of Sociology, gathered last week for the first of three pilot retreats organized by the Faculty…

The Harvard Art Museums have appointed Mitra Abbaspour as their new Houghton Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art and head of the museums’ Division of Modern and Contemporary Art, which…

Harvard Ph.D. candidate Chrystel Oloukoï has been awarded an inaugural Irene Yamamoto Arts Writers Fellowship for outstanding contributions to the art world. Oloukoï, who is completing a Ph.D. in African…

Joonho Lee, assistant professor of chemistry and chemical biology, has been named a laureate of the 2023 Blavatnik Regional Awards for Young Scientists in chemistry. The Blavatnik Regional Awards honors…

Ruth L. Okediji, the Jeremiah Smith Jr. Professor of Law at Harvard Law School, and leading intellectual property (IP) law scholar, has been named Oppenheimer Faculty Director of the Center…

“I learned that at my age I have a lot of power, that I can make my voice heard,” said Iffah Merchant, a 15-year-old from Columbus, Georgia. “Now, I know…

The Harvard Global Health Institute (HGHI) announced the 2023 recipients of its three fellowship programs: the Harvard Global Health Institute Climate and Health Burke Fellowship supports scholarly research at the…

Laura Bellamy ’13 will be the next Landry Family Head Coach for Harvard Women’s Ice Hockey, and  Jenny Rohn has been named Harvard softball head coach, Harvard Athletics announced this…

The Harvard Art Museums have appointed Laure Marest as their new Damarete Associate Curator of Ancient Coins — one of the few numismatic positions based at a U.S. university museum.…

China, India, Indonesia, Uganda, and Vietnam are projected to be among the fastest-growing economies for the coming decade, according to researchers at the Growth Lab at Harvard University. The new…

Growing up, Shana Grant knew that she wanted to pursue a health-related career, so she set her sights on the path that she was most familiar with — becoming a…

Harvard Business School has announced the 2023-2024 cohort of Blavatnik Fellows. Celebrating its 10th anniversary, the Blavatnik Fellowship in Life Science Entrepreneurship was launched in 2013 as part of a gift…

Malcolm McClain, M.B.A./M.P.P.  ’23, has been named the first recipient of the Harvard Business School RISE (Recognizing Individuals Seeking Equity) Career Fellow, with his income supplemented for one year following…

The Family Van, a Harvard Medical School-affiliated mobile community health program, has been serving the Boston neighborhoods of Roxbury, Dorchester, and East Boston for three decades. In addition to bringing…

For more than 20 years, scientists have been able to unravel the sequence of the human genome, the precise recipe of everyone’s DNA. That has led to incredible advances in…

As cities find themselves on the frontlines of addressing increasingly global challenges, the Bloomberg Harvard City Leadership Initiative announced on July 17 the seventh class of 40 mayors and 80…

Twelve professors in Harvard’s Faculty of Arts and Sciences have been named 2023 Walter Channing Cabot Fellows. The annual awards honor faculty members for their distinguished accomplishments in the fields of…