Centennial Medalists
Centennial Medalistsjennifer_carli…Thu, 06/06/2024 - 10:39The Griffin Graduate School of Arts and Sciences Centennial Medal, first awarded in 1989 on the occasion of the school’s hundredth anniversary,...
View ArticleElection Results
Election Resultsjennifer_carli…Thu, 06/06/2024 - 10:39The University announced on May 21 the newly elected members of the Board of Overseers (one of Harvard’s two governing boards), who assumed their...
View ArticleIs Harvard Antisemitic?
Is Harvard Antisemitic?max_krupnick@h…Thu, 06/20/2024 - 17:16When Hamas terrorists attacked Israel last October 7, they unleashed death and destruction—and also inflamed American prejudice on ethnic...
View ArticleHarvard Launches Center for LGBTQ Health
Harvard Launches Center for LGBTQ Healthniko_yaitanes@…Fri, 06/21/2024 - 21:29The Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Institute announced the launch of a new LGBTQ Health Center of Excellence on June 4, in...
View ArticleHarvard Antisemitism and Anti-Muslim Task Force Reports
Harvard Antisemitism and Anti-Muslim Task Force Reportsniko_yaitanes@…Wed, 06/26/2024 - 10:52Interim president Alan M. Garber today announced the preliminary recommendations from the task forces on...
View ArticleNew Home for ART Underway
New Home for ART Underwayjon_shaw@harvard.eduWed, 06/26/2024 - 13:49Harvard’s American Repertory Theater (ART) announced the start of construction on its new building at 175 North Harvard street in...
View ArticleTeaching Nutrition in Medical Education
Teaching Nutrition in Medical Educationd9be154420cfb9…Fri, 07/12/2024 - 08:40When Kamber Hart enrolled in Harvard Medical School’s (HMS) new elective course, NCE 522: Culinary Medicine and Nutrition,...
View ArticleHarvard’s Development Chief Departs
Harvard’s Development Chief Departsniko_yaitanes@…Wed, 07/17/2024 - 09:31Brian K. Lee, vice president for alumni affairs and development since 2018—in effect, the University’s chief fundraising...
View ArticleHarvard Overhauls Disciplinary Procedures
Harvard Overhauls Disciplinary Proceduresniko_yaitanes@…Thu, 07/18/2024 - 13:16Harvard announced this morning that it was overhauling disciplinary procedures involving violations of the University-wide...
View ArticleHarvard Confers 11 Undergraduate Degrees
Harvard Confers 11 Undergraduate Degreesniko_yaitanes@…Tue, 07/23/2024 - 10:18Harvard has conferred degrees on 11 undergraduates who were denied their diplomas on May 23 because they were suspended or...
View ArticleFormer Women’s Hockey Coach Sues Harvard
Former Women’s Hockey Coach Sues Harvardniko_yaitanes@…Tue, 07/23/2024 - 16:55On Tuesday, former women’s hockey coach Katey Stone, who retired 13 months ago in the wake of fierce complaints from former...
View ArticleThe Cost of Political Violence
The Cost of Political Violenceniko_yaitanes@…Fri, 07/26/2024 - 04:40After a shocking assassination attempt earlier this month against Donald Trump, rising political violence is once again in the news....
View ArticleNew Rules for Campus Use
New Rules for Campus Usemax_krupnick@h…Fri, 08/02/2024 - 09:54Though students are on summer recess, Harvard administrators have continued to grapple with the past academic year’s campus chaos. On...
View ArticleHarvard Names Alan M. Garber President
Harvard Names Alan M. Garber Presidentniko_yaitanes@…Fri, 08/02/2024 - 12:17Penny Pritzker, senior fellow of the Harvard Corporation, announced today that physician and economist Alan M. Garber ’77,...
View ArticleHarvard to Keep Arthur Sackler’s Name on Museum and Building
Harvard to Keep Arthur Sackler’s Name on Museum and Buildingniko_yaitanes@…Wed, 08/07/2024 - 15:25The Harvard Corporation has accepted a recommendation not to dename the Arthur M. Sackler Museum and...
View ArticleOwn Goals
Own Goalsjennifer_carli…Tue, 08/06/2024 - 13:51Harvard had enough problems last academic year without making matters worse for itself. Yet after handling the pro-Palestinian encampment in the Old Yard...
View ArticleCrimson Construction
Crimson Constructionjennifer_carli…Tue, 08/06/2024 - 13:51In 2020, pandemic-induced fears about a recession and prospective deficits led Harvard to curtail capital outlays sharply. Spending on new...
View ArticleCombating Bias
Combating Biasjennifer_carli…Tue, 08/06/2024 - 13:51In early May, when the cochairs of the University’s task forces on combating antisemitism and combating anti-Muslim, -Arab, and -Palestinian bias...
View ArticleNews in Brief
News in Briefjennifer_carli…Tue, 08/06/2024 - 13:51President Alan M. GarberAfter a dozen years as provost, and seven months as interim president (he was appointed January 2), Alan M. Garber became...
View ArticleAcademic Freedom and Free Speech
Academic Freedom and Free Speechjennifer_carli…Tue, 08/06/2024 - 13:51The upheaval on American campuses kindled by the Israel-Hamas war has had extreme consequences: resignations of presidents at...
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