Paula A. Johnson ’80, M.D. ’84, M.P.H. ’85 has been named Harvard’s 2026 Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Commemorative Lecture speaker.

Joshua D. Greene ’97, a faculty member in the Department of Psychology and Center for Brain Science, has been named the inaugural Alfred and Rebecca Lin Professor of Civil Discourse. 

Carmen Arnold-Biucchi, Damarete Curator of Ancient Coins at the Harvard Art Museums and lecturer in Harvard’s Department of the Classics, passed away peacefully on Jan. 2.

Imagine studying a pseudoscorpion, a tiny arachnid that is almost too small to see. In 1891, Harvard curator Nathan Banks mounted such a creature on a microscope slide. Over 130 years later, that same specimen is still carefully preserved in the Museum of Comparative Zoology (MCZ).

In a major step toward more adaptable and intuitive machines, Kempner Institute investigator Yilun Du and his collaborators have unveiled a new kind of artificial intelligence system that lets robots “envision” their actions before carrying them out.

The Growth Lab’s multidisciplinary research team works across the world, offering ideas, methods, and tools to help policymakers, scholars, investors, and others accelerate economic growth and expand opportunity.

At the Paul Farmer Symposium, held in November at Harvard Medical School and organized by the nonprofit co-founded by the late HMS professor Paul Farmer, Partners In Health, global health leaders convened to examine how innovation, research, and community-led models can advance mental health equity worldwide.

A Harvard research team led by Peter K. Bol, Charles H. Carswell Professor of East Asian Languages and Civilizations, has been awarded a $600,000 grant from Schmidt Sciences for a project to develop multilingual AI tools to help scholars access, analyze, and compare Eurasian historical documents.

The Harvard Center for International Development’s (CID) 2025 Global Empowerment Meeting (GEM) explored AI’s potential to drive more inclusive global development.

The EdRedesign Lab at Harvard Graduate School of Education Tuesday announced new co-sponsored research that shows providing students born into low-income families with personalized supports, whether in the form of academic, social, housing, or health assistance, significantly raises test scores, boosts high school graduation rates, and improves adult earnings.

Sam Liss will become the next chief technology development officer and associate provost, the University announced Tuesday.

More than 600 sixth graders from 10 local public schools filled Harvard’s historic Lavietes Pavilion last Friday to cheer on Harvard women’s basketball in their game against Stony Brook University.

The Harvard Division of Continuing Education (DCE) continued to celebrate its 50th Anniversary with a reception Dec. 5 at the Harvard Club of Boston. The event is a signature moment in DCE’s yearlong celebration, bringing together alumni, donors, faculty, students, and supporters to reflect on a legacy of expanding access for working professionals and lifelong…

“Research Crossroads: Cutting-Edge and Traditional Approaches to China’s Development and Governance” was the theme of the 12th China Development and Governance Workshop held at Harvard on Aug. 21. The hybrid event brought together 27 scholars from the United States, Mainland China, Taiwan, and Europe.

The New England Museum Association recently honored the Harvard Museums of Science & Culture across two award categories: an Excellence Award to Wendy Peiper and Publication Awards for the HMSC 2024 annual report and a book award for the Peabody Museum Gardner Fellow book “Manifest | Thirteen Colonies” by Wendel White.

Harvard Divinity School (HDS) announces that Starr King School for the Ministry (SKSM) recently donated the Earl Morse Wilbur Rare Book Collection to Harvard Divinity School Library. 

The John Templeton Foundation has awarded a $1.2 million grant to Swayam Bagaria, assistant professor of Hindu studies at Harvard Divinity School (HDS), and Bhrigupati Singh, senior lecturer at the Center for Anthropology and Mental Health Research in Action (CAMHRA) at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London, to create Ethnos-MH, a new global, research-based training program on the anthropology…

Tina Fey, award-winning writer, actress, and producer known for “30 Rock,” “Saturday Night Live,” “Mean Girls,” and other critically acclaimed comedy work, will visit Harvard on Jan. 30 with TV writer, producer, and showrunner Robert Carlock ’95 for a conversation in Sanders Theatre.

The Harvard Choruses are bringing a Charles Dickens classic to fresh musical life this weekend in a new piece arranged for orchestra, chorus, and narrator.

Harvard Management Company (HMC) announced that Paul Edgerley, M.B.A ’83, Mary Erdoes, M.B.A. ’93, and Raymond McGuire ’79, J.D./M.B.A. ’84, have been elected to join its Board of Directors.

David Liu, the Thomas Dudley Cabot Professor of the Natural Sciences and a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator will be a co-recipient of the Harvey Prize in Science and Technology in Chemistry for his translation of scientific discoveries into clinical applications.

Three Harvard scientists have won awards from the L’Oréal USA For Women in Science fellowship program.

Eighteen faculty members from six Harvard Schools and departments have accepted two-year faculty affiliations at the Bloomberg Center for Cities at Harvard University, joining 51 current faculty affiliates.

The Office of the Vice Provost for Research is pleased to announce the launch of the Frontiers of Innovation for Societal Impact Fund.

Harvard has appointed five new Emma Bloomberg faculty members, expanding a distinguished group of scholars whose work addresses complex problems facing cities worldwide. The endowed chairs, established with a gift from Bloomberg Philanthropies and named for Emma Bloomberg, M.B.A. ’07, M.P.A. ’07, support leading scholars who advance the study and practice of city governance. “Harvard…

A series of events last week at Harvard’s ArtLab showcased the dynamic, collaborative, and forward-thinking spirit of the arts. The events, which included performances, discussions, and an experiential Soundwalk, gave a behind-the-scenes look at how Harvard is redefining performance as a form of research and creative inquiry. The series kicked off on Nov. 4 with…

Naomi Oreskes, Henry Charles Lea Professor of the History of Science, has received the 2025 Volvo Environment Prize. The recognition, awarded annually by a foundation based in Stockholm, represents one of the world’s top distinctions for environmental scientists. It comes with a cash prize of 1.5 million Swedish Kronor (about $160,000). Oreskes, who is also an…

The Harvard Global Health Institute (HGHI) is now accepting applications for the HGHI Burke Fellowships, including the HGHI-Salata Burke Climate and Health Research Fellowship and the HGHI Burke Global Health Fellowship! Apply by 11:59 p.m. EST on Jan. 31. Made possible through the support of Harvard alumna Katherine States Burke ’79, and her husband, T. Robert Burke, the fellowships help launch…

A mystical poem recounting the tale of a Parthian prince sent to Egypt by his parents to recover a sacred pearl from the clutches of a monstrous serpent is the first in a series of important visionary and mystical ancient text translations from the Center for the Study of World Religion’s (CSWR) Texts and Translations…