Joonho Lee, assistant professor of chemistry and chemical biology, has been named a laureate of the 2023 Blavatnik Regional Awards for Young Scientists in chemistry. The Blavatnik Regional Awards honors…

Ruth L. Okediji, the Jeremiah Smith Jr. Professor of Law at Harvard Law School, and leading intellectual property (IP) law scholar, has been named Oppenheimer Faculty Director of the Center…

“I learned that at my age I have a lot of power, that I can make my voice heard,” said Iffah Merchant, a 15-year-old from Columbus, Georgia. “Now, I know…

The Harvard Global Health Institute (HGHI) announced the 2023 recipients of its three fellowship programs: the Harvard Global Health Institute Climate and Health Burke Fellowship supports scholarly research at the…

Laura Bellamy ’13 will be the next Landry Family Head Coach for Harvard Women’s Ice Hockey, and  Jenny Rohn has been named Harvard softball head coach, Harvard Athletics announced this…

The Harvard Art Museums have appointed Laure Marest as their new Damarete Associate Curator of Ancient Coins — one of the few numismatic positions based at a U.S. university museum.…

China, India, Indonesia, Uganda, and Vietnam are projected to be among the fastest-growing economies for the coming decade, according to researchers at the Growth Lab at Harvard University. The new…

Growing up, Shana Grant knew that she wanted to pursue a health-related career, so she set her sights on the path that she was most familiar with — becoming a…

Harvard Business School has announced the 2023-2024 cohort of Blavatnik Fellows. Celebrating its 10th anniversary, the Blavatnik Fellowship in Life Science Entrepreneurship was launched in 2013 as part of a gift…

Malcolm McClain, M.B.A./M.P.P.  ’23, has been named the first recipient of the Harvard Business School RISE (Recognizing Individuals Seeking Equity) Career Fellow, with his income supplemented for one year following…

The Family Van, a Harvard Medical School-affiliated mobile community health program, has been serving the Boston neighborhoods of Roxbury, Dorchester, and East Boston for three decades. In addition to bringing…

For more than 20 years, scientists have been able to unravel the sequence of the human genome, the precise recipe of everyone’s DNA. That has led to incredible advances in…

As cities find themselves on the frontlines of addressing increasingly global challenges, the Bloomberg Harvard City Leadership Initiative announced on July 17 the seventh class of 40 mayors and 80…

Twelve professors in Harvard’s Faculty of Arts and Sciences have been named 2023 Walter Channing Cabot Fellows. The annual awards honor faculty members for their distinguished accomplishments in the fields of…

EdRedesign, based at the Harvard Graduate School of Education (HGSE), has named Rob Watson to the newly created position of deputy director to support EdRedesign’s expanding footprint in the cradle-to-career…

Harvard University Graduate School of Design (GSD) has named Jingru (Cyan) Cheng the winner of the 2023 Wheelwright Prize, a $100,000 grant to support investigative approaches to contemporary architecture, with an…

The American Sociological Association has recognized two Harvard professors for publishing significant journal articles last year. Assistant Professor of Sociology Christina J. Cross and Professor of Sociology David S. Pedulla…

On July 1, 1973, the Harvard College Observatory and Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory signed an agreement to become the Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian (CfA). The CfA has been…

Harvard graduate student Vaibhav Mohanty is among the 15 doctoral students named 2023 Hertz Fellows. Founded in 1957, the John and Fannie Hertz Foundation accelerates solutions to the world’s most…

On June 17, the rain held off long enough so transit drivers from colleges and universities across the region could compete in the Collegiate Bus Road’eo which featured a lineup…

The Kempner Institute for the Study of Natural and Artificial Intelligence at Harvard is pleased to announce the appointment of Boaz Barak, Samuel Gershman, Susan Murphy, and Marinka Zitnik as…

Two Harvard professors have won prestigious awards from the American Political Science Association. Theda Skocpol, Ph.D. ’75, the Victor S. Thomas Professor of Government and Sociology, was selected for the…

A crowd that included former colleagues and staff, Harvard alums, and Allston community members, gathered at the Harvard Ed Portal recently to celebrate the life and legacy of founder Rob…

More than 700 Harvard IT staff and community members gathered in Sanders Theatre on Tuesday, June 6, for the tenth anniversary IT Summit, hosted by the University’s CIO Council.    The…

The EdRedesign Lab’s Institute for Success Planning at the Harvard Graduate School of Education has announced its cohort of cross-sector teams from across the country joining its Success Planning 2023…

The Office of the Provost has announced that a review of the University’s corporate relations and related research policies will take place over the next academic year. Harvard regularly interacts…

The Loeb Fellowship at the Harvard Graduate School of Design (GSD) has chosen the 2024 Class of Loeb Fellows: nine innovators, problem solvers, visionaries, and practitioners who lead the charge…

Researchers from The Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies (HCPDS), the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, the University of the Witwatersrand, and the University of Cape Town…

Former Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot has been appointed as a Richard L. and Ronay A. Menschel Senior Leadership Fellow for the fall term at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public…

New research has uncovered a surprising bias in the risk assessment instruments (or RAIs) widely used in criminal justice settings. It turns out, their predictive powers are quick to erode.…