Thirty-nine mayors from 11 countries across five continents joined Harvard faculty and renowned management leaders in an immersive classroom experience this week to kick off the Bloomberg Harvard City Leadership Initiative. The yearlong program is designed to deliver research-backed learning for mayors and senior city leaders, helping close the gap in executive development for the…

Harvard Graduate School of Education and the Harvard & the Legacy of Slavery Initiative commit to increasing access to professional development for HBCU ELI’s community of fellows. In a landmark move of strategic collaboration, the Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) Executive Leadership Institute (ELI) at Clark Atlanta University announces a partnership with Harvard University that underscores a shared commitment to cultivating and empowering…

The Harvard Climate Change and Health Collaborative hosted a second workshop on June 13-14 in partnership with the Harvard Global Health Institute’s new Scholarly Working Groups program. Building on the foundational work of the inaugural workshop last September, the two-day event brought together a consortium of Harvard faculty, researchers, and global public health leaders to…

As artificial intelligence surges, corporate directors face a set of urgent ethical considerations. What role can they play in fostering responsible practices for using AI in the workplace? Are they already using the bias-prone technology to sort through job applications? At the inaugural Directors’ AI Ethics Forum, leaders from the business, government, and nonprofit sectors pondered these…

The Kempner Institute for the Study of Natural and Artificial Intelligence today announced the names of 15 students chosen as the incoming 2024 cohort of Kempner Graduate Fellows. The 2024 recipients of the Kempner Graduate Fellowship are: Rachit Bansal, George Cai, Lukas Fesser, Sara Fish, Kexin (Cindy) Luo, Alex Meterez, Depen Morwani, Daniel Yutaka Sprague,…

The Kempner Institute for the Study of Natural and Artificial Intelligence at Harvard is pleased to announce the appointment of David Alvarez-Melis and Patrick Slade as associate faculty members.  Both Alvarez-Melis and Slade are current Harvard faculty members whose pioneering work in the fields of natural and artificial intelligence advances the Kempner Institute’s core scientific mission. The two…

The American Philosophical Society recently announced the selection of 37 new members, including five faculty from the Faculty of Arts and Sciences and Harvard Medical School. The five elected members have academic interests including gene mutations, affective forecasting, and the history of American music and culture. The newly elected members of the APS are: William…

Cholera, an ancient, yet treatable and preventable disease, continues to claim thousands of lives around the world. According to the World Health Organization (WHO), there are 1.3 to 4.0 million cases of cholera and 21,000 to 143,000 deaths each year worldwide due to it. Despite these alarming numbers, cholera research does not always garner much attention. A recent…

Harvard geologist Paul F. Hoffman has been named a 2024 laureate of the Kyoto Prize. The Sturgis Hooper Professor of Geology Emeritus, Hoffman received the honor in recognition of his work in Earth evolution and plate tectonics. The Kyoto Prize recognizes Hoffman’s groundbreaking achievements in the “snowball Earth” global freezing theory, as well as his…

Eleven Harvard undergraduates welcomed as inaugural KRANIUM participants

Eric Jacobsen, the Sheldon Emory Professor of Organic Chemistry, will receive the 2024 Robert A. Welch Award in Chemistry for his research into speeding up chemical reactions and understanding how reactions work. The prestigious award honors the value of chemical research contributions and promote basic chemical research. “Professor Jacobsen is a trailblazer in the field of chemistry,…

Fourteen professors in Harvard’s Faculty of Arts and Sciences have been named Walter Channing Cabot Fellows. The annual awards honor faculty members for their contributions to the advancement of scholarship in the fields of literature, history, or art. The Cabot Fellowships are traditionally given to professors in the arts and humanities, along with some social…

Harvard Management Company (HMC) announced that Timothy R. Barakett has been appointed to chair its board of directors, effective July 1, 2024. Current chair Paul J. Finnegan will remain on the HMC board as a director. Members of HMC’s board of directors and its chair are appointed by the President and Fellows of Harvard College…

The first Student Affairs Professional Development Summit took place on Thursday, June 6 in Harvard’s Northwest Building. The summit, which welcomed 115 attendees, offered a chance for student affairs professionals across the University to come together to network, share stories and tips and build on their skills.   “I was delighted to participate in our inaugural…

The Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters has named astrophysics professor David Charbonneau a winner of the 2024 Kavli Prize, which recognizes innovative scientific research that transforms humanity’s understanding of “the big, the small, and the complex.” One of eight scientists awarded, Charbonneau received the Kavli Prize in Astrophysics for his work on extrasolar planets,…

Professor Paul Reville, founder and faculty director of The EdRedesign Lab at Harvard Graduate School of Education, today announced several key appointments and promotions within the leadership team at EdRedesign. Rob Watson will become the inaugural executive director, Tauheedah Jackson will become deputy director, and Bridget Rodriguez will become senior adviser. “I am delighted to…

American Repertory Theater (A.R.T.) at Harvard University, led by Terrie and Bradley Bloom Artistic Director Diane Paulus and Executive Director Kelvin Dinkins Jr., announced today three of the four productions that will comprise its 2024/25 subscription season as well as an additional world-premiere music-theater production to perform at a location on Harvard’s campus to be…

Zoe Marks, lecturer in public policy at Harvard Kennedy School and leading scholar on conflict and peacebuilding in Africa, has been named Oppenheimer Faculty Director of the Center for African Studies (CAS). “I am delighted that Zoe Marks has agreed to serve as the next director of the Center for African Studies,” said University interim…

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 Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, announced today. Thornber begins her role July 1. “Karen is a global scholar, an innovative and passionate…

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 mid-career faculty working on fundamental challenges in the physical sciences, Yao will receive up to $2 million over five years. The award will fund Yao’s…

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 are Haylin Diaz, Lyndon Lam, Maceo D. Richards and Leilany Torres Diaz. Designed to support students seeking access to advanced coursework and research opportunities, the…

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 Business and Government. Barton won for his thesis, “The Causal Effect of Welfare Retrenchment: Evidence from Medicaid and SNAP.” He is graduating from Harvard College…

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, and Abdullah Mahomed), along with Teresa Danso-Danquah, all members of the Harvard Business School (HBS) M.B.A. Class of 2024, as well as Martin Aragoneses, a…

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 teaching, and for the positive impact they had both in and out of the classroom. Students were asked to identify professors who have enhanced their…

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 cross-sector experience who are committed to addressing societal issues throughout their careers. Since 2003, it has placed over 300 fellows at organizations such as the…

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 is awarded to three graduating seniors annually, is named for the sixth-century poet associated with enlightenment and inspiration, and was established by the Division of Arts…

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 to find out. Over pumping of aquifers causes about 10 percent of sea level rise. Peter Huybers, chair of the Department of Earth and Planetary…

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. EdRedesign provides catalytic support to the cradle-to-career place-based partnership field to drive systems-level change and open personalized pathways to opportunity for children, youth, and families.…

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 Camp will pursue a one-year M.Phil. degree in biological sciences at Cambridge University, conducting research on the microbiome at the Wellcome Sanger Institute. “I was…