Thomas Fel, a research fellow at the Kempner Institute, wants to help solve what he describes as one of the most fascinating puzzles of our generation — understanding the inner workings of AI models, and uncovering the mathematical principles that underlie their abilities.

When the COVID-19 pandemic spread across the globe in 2020, Harvard Law School alum Earl Martin Phalen ’93 wanted to do his part to address the increase in job loss and financial instability through his organization Skilled US.

Nobel laureate Claudia Goldin is receiving the American Academy of Arts and Sciences’ 2026 Talcott Parsons Prize.

The Graduate Commons Program (GCP) at Harvard University Housing will say goodbye this spring to Faculty Directors Nancy Hill (HGSE) and Rendall Howell, as they begin their new chapter in Currier House as FAS faculty dean.

The Kempner Institute for the Study of Natural and Artificial Intelligence at Harvard University is pleased to announce the 2026 Kempner Institute Accelerator Awards request for proposals. 

Analysis of 1.6 million patents finds that early-20th-century research labs and professional engineers sparked a surge in novel inventions and reshaped who innovates — and where.

Leonard Zon, professor of Stem Cell and Regenerative Biology and director of the Stem Cell Research Program at Boston Children’s Hospital, has won 2026 March of Dimes Richard B Johnston Jr., MD Prize from the March of Dimes for his pioneering work in hematology and stem cell biology.

Four Harvard students are among the 26 selected to be part of the 2026 class of Gates Cambridge Scholars at the University of Cambridge.

Tyler J. VanderWeele, John L. Loeb and Frances Lehman Loeb Professor of Epidemiology in the Departments of Epidemiology and Biostatistics at the T.H. Chan School of Public Health, is the newest member of Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences.  Appointed this week by Pope Leo XIV, VanderWeele will serve alongside 35 global experts in law, political…

Harvard University’s Hutchins Center for African & African American Research announces that historian and higher education leader Ben Vinson III has been appointed a fellow at the center’s Afro-Latin American Research Institute (ALARI). Vinson’s fellowship follows his recently concluded tenure as president of the American Historical Association, during which he recently delivered his outgoing presidential…

The Harvard Global Health Institute (HGHI) has announced the full agenda and speaker lineup for its fourth annual Global Health Symposium, scheduled for April 16 at Harvard University and livestreamed via YouTube. Under the theme “Global Health Forward: Strength Through Innovation and Collective Action,” the symposium will bring together scholars, clinicians, policymakers, and practitioners from around…

The Kempner Institute for the Study of Natural and Artificial Intelligence at Harvard University is pleased to announce the spring 2026 recipients of the Kempner Undergraduate Research Experience (KURE) awards.

Advancing research is essential to realizing the fuller potential of genomic medicines. In support of this critical work, the Office of the Vice Provost for Research is pleased to announce a new funding opportunity is now open to eligible investigators at Harvard University working in fields related to genomic medicines.

New projections from the Growth Lab at Harvard Kennedy School suggest that Vietnam and China are positioned to lead global growth in the decade ahead, driven by their sophisticated and diverse manufacturing capabilities.

Over the past two decades, Satchit Balsari’s lab has followed disasters and humanitarian crises across the globe, including natural disasters, like earthquakes, floods, and hurricanes in South Asia, the U.S., and Central and South America, as well as populations displaced by wars and refugee crises in Bangladesh and the Middle East.

In December, more than 20 therapists, chaplains, and other professionals gathered for a three-day workshop focused on providing spiritual care in religious and recreational psychedelic settings.

Bill Rauch ’84 will receive the 2026 Harvard Arts Medal.

Xiaowei Zhuang, David B. Arnold Jr. Professor of Science at Harvard University and a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator, has been awarded the 2026 Ernest Solvay Prize by Syensqo “for pioneering the development of genome-scale imaging, which has transformed biochemical research, enabled spatial genomics, and created a new paradigm for understanding the molecular and cellular…

New research from the Kempner Institute on the language-processing role of the cerebellum has potential implications for treating language disorders, as well as for building future artificial intelligence language models.

Harvard Impact Labs awarded $1.4 million to launch four new research projects that will tackle urgent social problems.

Rita Hamad, professor at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and leading social epidemiology scholar, has been named the next faculty director of the Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies.

Nancy Hill and Rendall Howell have been named the new faculty deans of Currier House, Danoff Dean of Harvard College David J. Deming announced Wednesday. They will begin their new role July 1. 

BioMed X and Harvard University announced the launch of a pilot initiative under BioMed X’s XBridge framework to support structured research collaborations between academic investigators and pharmaceutical industry scientists through sponsored research agreements.

In the world of mathematics, Benedict “Dick” Gross made groundbreaking contributions in domains such as number theory. But within the small Faculty of Arts and Sciences community, the professor and onetime dean of Harvard College earned renown for something less abstract—the countless students he befriended and inspired. “He was an absolutely brilliant mathematician,” said longtime…

The Harvard Alumni Summit for Middle East & Africa 2026 was hosted at the recently inaugurated Grand Egyptian Museum in Cairo on Jan. 16–18. It brought together Harvard alumni, regional leaders, business executives, innovators, and change makers from across the Middle East, Africa, and the rest of the world. The summit celebrated innovation, collaboration, and…

Stephanie M. Jones, professor at the Harvard Graduate School of Education and leading scholar on early childhood social-emotional development, has been named the next faculty director of the Harvard Center on the Developing Child. “Stephanie embodies the Harvard Center on the Developing Child’s commitment to better understanding what children need to grow, learn, and thrive,”…

The Kempner Institute for the Study of Natural and Artificial Intelligence at Harvard University is pleased to announce Nada Amin and Debora Marks as the recipients of the 2026 Kempner Institute Accelerator Awards, a new pilot grant program for Harvard faculty researching intelligence.  The accelerator awards program provides in-kind awards to Harvard faculty undertaking advanced computational research…