Karen Thornber, the Harry Tuchman Levin Professor in Literature, will be the next Richard L. Menschel Faculty Director of the Derek Bok Center for Teaching and Learning, Hopi Hoekstra, Edgerley…

Norman Yao, professor in Harvard’s Department of Physics, has been named a 2024 Ross Brown Investigator by the Brown Institute for Basic Sciences at Caltech. As one of eight awarded…

The Kempner Institute for the Study of Natural and Artificial Intelligence at Harvard is pleased to announce the inaugural scholars awarded placement in the Kempner Institute Post-Baccalaureate Program. The 2024 post-bac scholars…

The Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government (M-RCBG) at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government announced Aden Barton as the 2024 winner of the John T. Dunlop Undergraduate Thesis Prize in…

The leadership teams of the Jewish Students Association (JSA: Amit Botzer, Aliza Ohnouna, Rebecca Sichel, and Daniel Silberwasser) and Middle East and North Africa Club (MENA: Loujaine AlMoallim, Line Hachem,…

Students from the Harvard Business School (HBS) graduating Class of 2024 honored four faculty members with Faculty Teaching Awards. Juan Alcacer, Ryan Buell, David Moss, and Sophus Reinert were recognized for their excellence and dedication to…

Harvard Business School has announced the 2024-2025 cohort of its Leadership Fellows Program. The program is based on University Professor Michael Porter’s vision of developing a network of HBS graduates with…

Three graduating seniors — Yaoquan Chen, Rivers Sheehan, and Erik Zou — have been awarded the 2024 Taliesin Prize for Distinction in the Art of Learning. The Taliesin Prize, which…

Can sea level rise be slowed? A new project called Sea Level Investigation and Management (SLIM), made possible by a generous gift from Cornelius “Neil” Prior Jr., LL.B. ’62, aims…

EdRedesign and Opportunity Insights announced the launch of a new joint research fellowship for Harvard University doctoral students. The Upward Mobility Fellowship represents a unique partnership between two Harvard-based organizations.…

The Winston Churchill Foundation has named recent Harvard College graduate Andrew Van Camp ’23 one of 16 Churchill Scholars in science, math, and engineering for the 2024-25 academic year. Van…

Five Harvard College students have been awarded this year’s General Education Prize, an award for undergraduates who went above and beyond in their learning. Seniors Ashton Body and Justin Hu,…

Peace in the world. Contentment among all people. Abundant harvests. In a one-hour ceremony, set in the courtyard outside the Divinity School’s Center for the Study of World Religions, these petitions…

At the corner of Broadway and Inman streets in Cambridge is a white, three-story Victorian house with black shutters and a red door. The house is the home of On…

Two Harvard University faculty members won the prestigious Carnegie Fellowship this week, a recognition of their work on U.S. democracy and political divisions. The 2024 class of Andrew Carnegie Fellows…

Ronnie Levin, an instructor in the Department of Environmental Health at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, has been named by Time as among the 100 individuals who most…

The EdRedesign Lab’s Institute for Success Planning at the Harvard Graduate School of Education has announced its third cohort of cross-sector teams from across the country joining its 2024 Success…

Laila Nasher ’25, a history and social anthropology concentrator with a secondary in ethnicity, migration, and rights, was named as a 2024 Truman Scholar. Nasher joins a cohort of 60…

Nine Harvard University faculty members are among the 120 individuals elected recently to the National Academy of Sciences. In an announcement last week, the NAS named five new members affiliated with Harvard…

Harvard’s Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology hosted its second annual undergraduate research symposium, showcasing its undergraduates’ state-of-the-art research projects and honoring the historic contributions of CCB professor and renowned…

The Harvard & the Legacy of Slavery Initiative (H&LS) is pleased to announce the recipients of its inaugural Reparative Partnership Program, which supports innovative and impactful proposals addressing systemic inequities…

Black ecology celebrates the convergence of environmental and racial justice movements to uplift historically marginalized communities. At the Ninth annual Scholarship and Social Justice Conference, several scholars spoke about how…

As a child growing up in the 1970s in Southern California, Marcos Luna was acutely aware of inequality issues and discrimination against the Latino community.  He witnessed “blockbusting,” where real…

Recent Harvard Ph.D. graduate Soon Wei Daniel Lim was one of 32 early career researchers named a 2024 Schmidt Science Fellow. Advised by Professor Federico Capasso at Harvard, Lim’s thesis…

Time magazine has named Francesca Dominici, Clarence James Gamble Professor of Biostatistics, Population and Data Science at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and the faculty director of…

Fourteen Harvard faculty are among the 250 newly elected members of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences. “We honor these artists, scholars, scientists, and leaders in the public, nonprofit,…

Regular visits to the dentist are not only good for a routine examination and cleaning, but also for the detection of oral cancer — cancer that develops in areas in…

Five Harvard professors were awarded Guggenheim Fellowships this year, drawing support for projects that range from the political to the literary. Tracy K. Smith, professor of English and of African…