Excerpt from an essay titled “Designing Food Security in Rural Mississippi”  by Charles Shafaieh. For nearly a decade, Mississippi has ranked as America’s hungriest state. Nearly 19 percent of its citizens — about 600,000 people — face food insecurity, including one in four children. This catastrophe is not the fault of geography. Agriculture serves as the…

An excerpt from “After the Turkey-Syria Earthquakes, Rethinking Design on Shaky Ground” by Yun Fu, a design critic at Harvard Graduate School of Design. While the recovery is still unfolding and the damage is tallied, all signs suggest that the recent earthquakes in Turkey and Syria will go down as one of the most severe…

Harvard scored second place among the winning teams at the 83rd annual William Lowell Putnam Mathematical Competition. Over 3,400 students from more than 450 institutions participated in the highly competitive exam administered by the Mathematical Association of America (MAA) this past December. The 2022 Putnam team from Harvard was comprised of Kevin Cong ’26, Andrew…

Jerry X. Mitrovica, the Frank Baird Jr. Professor of Science in the Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences has been awarded the 2023 Arthur L. Day Prize and Lectureship for his critical work in advancing the “understanding of the complex relationship between sea level and melting ice sheets and their impacts on human societies past…

In an inaugural University-wide event, Faith & Veritas ’23 will bring together Harvard’s Christian alumni, faculty, and students March 30-April 2 in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Faith & Veritas ’23 is a vision of re-engagement and renewal for alumni who share a common conviction in the role and power of biblical faith to confront societal challenges, strengthen…

This is an excerpt from “Seeing Ukraine Then and Now,” by Jerold S. Kayden, as it appeared in Harvard Design Magazine. At the time of this writing, Russia’s invasion of Ukraine is front and center in the news. The mounting numbers of dead and wounded stun the imagination. The creation of millions of refugees crossing…

“Gatsby,” a musical stage adaptation of the legendary F. Scott Fitzgerald novel, will make its world premiere at the American Repertory Theater in 2024. Producers Amanda Ghost and Len Blavatnik for Unigram/Access Entertainment, Jordan Roth, and American Repertory Theater made the announcement Thursday. The musical will be directed by Tony Award winner Rachel Chavkin and…

Meghan L. O’Sullivan, a Harvard Kennedy School professor, former senior national security official, and global thought leader on the geopolitics of energy, has been appointed the Director of the School’s Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, Dean Douglas Elmendorf announced Tuesday. O’Sullivan’s appointment as director will take effect on July 1, 2023; she will continue to…

Harvard Business School has announced a new cohort of Executive Fellows who have joined the School for the 2023 spring semester. The Executive Fellows Program seeks to leverage the expertise of outstanding practitioners to enhance teaching and learning at the School. All fellows, including alumni, partner with at least one HBS faculty member to bring…

Harvard Business School’s Baker Library has opened a new exhibition that focuses on the history of one of the most infamous financial crashes. “The South Sea Bubble, 1720: Narratives of the First International Crash” was organized by Baker Library Special Collections. A formative moment in financial history, the bubble was the result of speculative mania…

With the vision of creating a health insurance plan centered on the unique needs of Harvard’s employees, the Harvard University Group Health Plan was created in 1973 by Harvard University Health Services executive director Warren E.C. Wacker, who served from 1971 to 1989, and then-Harvard President Derek Bok. Since its inception, HUGHP has been managed…

The Just City Lab at the Harvard Graduate School of Design and the Mayors’ Institute on City Design (MICD) are pleased to announce the launch of the 2023 MICD Just City Mayoral Fellowship, taking place in Spring 2023. The 2023 Fellowship will help mayors develop and strengthen approaches to embedding justice and equity goals within…

Christina Warinner, associate professor in the Department of Anthropology and Sally Starling Seaver Associate Professor at Radcliffe Institute, was named a winner of the 2022 Federation of European Microbiological Societies (FEMS) Article Awards. Selected by editorial boards and select editors-in-chief, the Article Awards recognize the year’s best scientific papers published by FEMS Journals and Oxford…

Harvard is a leading producer of Fulbright award winners for 2022-23. A total of 29 students and recent graduates were selected for the prestigious Fulbright U.S. Student program, with each offered a scholarship to teach or pursue independent research abroad. Of those selected, 17 accepted their awards. Their destinations include everywhere from East Asia to…

Dayron J. Miles has been named the American Repertory Theater’s associate artistic director. The appointment was announced today by Diane Paulus, Terrie and Bradley Bloom Artistic Director of the A.R.T., and Kelvin Dinkins Jr., executive director. Miles joined the A.R.T. in November 2019 as the senior adviser for civic engagement and strategic partnerships to collaborate…

Higher temperatures were linked to impaired fetal growth, according to a study from Stefania Papatheodorou, lecturer on epidemiology at Harvard Chan School, and colleagues. Papatheodorou discusses the implications of the study—and what pregnant people can do to protect themselves during days of extreme heat driven by climate change. Harvard Chan School: What were some of the specific findings of your study? Will…

The city of Boston has joined The EdRedesign Lab’s (EdRedesign) By All Means Community of Practice, an initiative that harnesses the power of place-based, cross-sector partnerships to create integrated systems of support and opportunity for families, children, and youth. EdRedesign, a University-based initiative at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, advances cradle-to-career, community-based, personalized systems…

A competitive challenge grant program is inspiring student organizations to take action in far-reaching ways, from elevating climate action through a student storytelling symposium to helping unhoused people obtain access to government identification. The Harvard College SOCIAL Challenge provides funding to student organizations pursuing collaborative socially impactful projects.  The SOCIAL Challenge supports solution-focused service projects,…

The Honorable Loretta Lynch ’81, J.D. ’84 will deliver the 2023 Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Commemorative Lecture at Harvard. The annual lecture will be held in October. Lynch served as the 83rd U.S. attorney general from 2015 through 2017 — only the second woman, and the first Black woman to hold that office. During her…

The Corporation Committee on Shareholder Responsibility (CCSR), a committee of the Harvard Corporation, today released its 2021-2022 Annual Report.   The report summarizes the work and activities of the CCSR during the 2021-2022 academic year, including the committee’s consideration of matters of shareholder responsibility in relation to investments by Harvard Management Company (HMC), particularly those that…

Danoff Dean of Harvard College Rakesh Khurana announced the appointment of Thomas Dunne as dean of students for the College. He will begin the role June 1. Dunne has served in the Office of the Dean of Undergraduate Students at Princeton University since 1999, most recently as deputy dean of students. At Harvard, he will…

Researchers from SHINE and the Human Flourishing Program have published a new paper in Sustainability exploring whether the importance assigned to well-being domains may be associated with actual self-reported well-being in these same domains. “Associations between the Importance of Well-Being Domains and the Subsequent Experience of Well-Being” was authored by Dorota Weziak-Bialowolska, Matthew T. Lee,…

Harvard University’s Advanced Leadership Initiative (ALI) announced the selection of its 2023 fellowship cohort, which is notable for its significant international representation and gender diversity.  The fellowship cohort is comprised of 43 participants and with women constituting over 58 percent of the group, the 2023 ALI cohort will have the highest percentage of female participants…

Seven Harvard affiliates were named recipients of the Schwarzman Scholarship in December. The eighth cohort of the prestigious award will attend Beijing’s Tsinghua University for a yearlong master’s degree program in global affairs. This year’s class of 151 candidates comes from 36 countries and 121 universities around the world. “I am excited by the eighth…

Aging has become a significant societal problem. While people are, on average, living longer, there has not been a concomitant increase in health span. In simple terms, this means that longer life is currently associated with a higher incidence of aging-exacerbated disorders. Among the most untreatable and chronic of these are diseases of the central…

Over the summer, eight students from Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health partnered with organizations and community members from Boston to Nairobi, Kenya, to learn about and help address locally identified public health problems. The students — members of the spring 2022 cohort of Community Engaged Learning Fellows — spoke about their work at…

The Growth Lab’s “Metroverse,” a narrative visualization platform that communicates urban economic composition and growth opportunities for cities, was recently honored at the 2022 Information is Beautiful Awards. “Metroverse” won the Silver award in the Business Analytics category. Based on more than a decade of research on how economies grow and diversify, the digital tool…