In response to escalating tensions between NATO and the Russian Federation, leading scholars and practitioners in global security, public health, economics, and health systems convened at the Harvard Global Health Institute (HGHI) on May 1–2 to examine strategies for enhancing the resilience of civilian health systems to disruptions resulting from armed conflict. Organized by HGHI’s…

When hundreds gathered at the Harvard Divinity School in May for a three-day conference on the sentient lives of plants and fungi, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Emily Dickinson, Henry David Thoreau, and generations of Indigenous people may not only have recognized the conversations, but they would have also applauded them. From May 15 to 17, the…

Feyaad Allie, assistant professor of government, has been selected to join a prestigious group of researchers tackling some of the world’s most urgent challenges.  The Canadian Institute for Advanced Research, or CIFAR, recently named Allie one of its CIFAR Azrieli Global Scholars for 2025. The highly selective program, now in its 10th year, invites junior faculty to…

The Harvard Extension Alumni Association honored its 2024 Alumni Award recipients for their extraordinary achievements and service at its annual Alumni Banquet in the historic Annenberg Hall on May 27. “These remarkable alumni embody the spirit of the HEAA through their impactful leadership, service, and innovation,” noted the HEAA. Nancy J. Coleman, dean of Continuing…

Sixteen professors in Harvard’s Faculty of Arts and Sciences have been named Walter Channing Cabot Fellows. The annual awards honor faculty members for their accomplishments in the areas of literature, history, or art, particularly for publications and scholarly work that has made an impact in their fields.  The Cabot Fellowships are traditionally given to professors…

Harvard Business School (HBS) held its 115th Commencement exercises Thursday with a diploma ceremony on its campus in Boston. After an all-University celebration in Harvard’s Tercentenary Theatre in the morning, 925 students received their M.B.A. degrees in front of the School’s Baker Library | Bloomberg Center. The top 5 percent of the MBA Class of…

Harvard Business School (HBS) has announced the recipients of the 2025 Wyss Awards for Excellence in Mentoring Doctoral Students. Professor Elie Ofek and Assistant Professor Maria Roche have been selected for their work in the Doctoral Programs. The award, whose recipients are selected by doctoral students, recognizes faculty who provide exceptional mentorship and guidance to doctoral students. Established in 2004…

All 929 members of the Harvard Business School (HBS) MBA Class of 2025 gathered at Baker Lawn under clear skies to celebrate Class Day on Wednesday. Taking place the day before Commencement, Class Day is an annual event organized by graduating students to celebrate the achievements, contributions and community of the graduating MBA class. Along…

The Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government (M-RCBG) at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government is pleased to announce the 2025 winner of the John T. Dunlop Undergraduate Thesis Prize in Business and Government. Krishi Kishore has won for his thesis “Drugs and Deals: Understanding Biopharmaceutical Venture Capital Performance and Behavior.” He is graduating from Harvard…

Students from the Harvard Business School graduating Class of 2025 honored four faculty members with Faculty Teaching Awards. Rawi Abdelal, Edward (Ted) Berk, Meg Rithmire, and Andy Wu 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…

James Bedford, from the Harvard Business School’s M.B.A. Class of 2025, has been named the recipient of the Dean’s Award. This prestigious award celebrates the extraordinary achievements of a graduating student who during their two years of study has made a positive impact on Harvard, Harvard Business School, and/or broader communities through exceptional acts of…

Harvard Business School has announced the 2025-2026 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 more than 300 fellows at organizations such as…

Two Harvard leaders, Caroline Fernald, executive director of the Harvard Museums of Science and Culture, and Carrie Moore, the Kathy Delaney-Smith Head Coach For Harvard Women’s Basketball, were honored by the Cambridge Chamber of Commerce last week as part of their annual Inspire Awards celebration. The Inspire Awards recognize “the commitment and contributions of outstanding women…

The Carr-Ryan Center for Human Rights at the Harvard Kennedy School is proud to announce the appointment of Jessica Stern as senior fellow. She will be the first senior fellow focused on LGBTQI+ human rights in the history of the Carr-Ryan Center and the Kennedy School. Jessica Stern is one of the world’s most distinguished…

When Tarun Khanna took over the South Asia Initiative 15 years ago, there was one staff member, a small office in CGIS South, and almost no faculty involvement from around campus. He saw an enormous opportunity to bring together South Asia-focused scholars, students, and alumni at Harvard and connect them more closely with the region, but…

John F. Manning and Hopi H. Hoekstra announced earlier this year that Diana L. Eck, professor of Comparative Religion and Indian Studies, Emerita, and Frederic Wertham Research Professor of Law and Psychiatry in Society, will be named interim faculty director of the Lakshmi Mittal and Family South Asia Institute (the Mittal Institute) beginning July 1.   …

Marcella Alsan, Joshua Schwartzstein, and their co-authors have been honored with the Arrow Award for their paper, “Representation and Extrapolation: Evidence from Clinical Trials.”

Chris Hood, M.B.A. ’25, has been selected as the student speaker for Harvard Business School’s (HBS) Class Day celebration on May 28. Class Day honors graduating students and typically takes place on the day before the School’s and University’s official graduation ceremonies. It is planned and conducted by a committee of second-year M.B.A. students. Hood…

As the academic year comes to a close, Harvard Divinity School (HDS) announces that Tess Dufrechou, M.Div. ’25, and Kat Woodard, M.Div. ’25, have received the 2025 Frederick Buechner Prize. The award is given annually to two graduating M.Div. students whose senior papers best embody the literary and theological vision of the late writer-theologian Frederick…

Kempner Research Fellow Ilenna Jones studies dendrites, exploring how the computational properties of these structures in biological neurons can contribute to the next generation of brain-inspired AI. Alongside this research on neuronal networks, she has been hard at work developing another sort of network within the Kempner Institute: a collaborative network dedicated to education and…

EdRedesign, based at the Harvard Graduate School of Education (HGSE), is proud to announce the second cohort of By All Means Senior Fellows, a visiting fellowship initiative launched in 2023 for exemplary senior leaders of place-based collaborative action. The Senior Fellows program provides a platform for distinguished practitioners to engage with the Harvard community, including…

Joshua Sanes, the Jeff C. Tarr Professor of Molecular and Cellular Biology, has been named a Fellow of the Royal Society, one of the oldest and most esteemed scientific bodies in the world. Sanes studies how complex neural circuits form in animals and he is most renowned for his work on the development of synapses,…

Stuart L. Schreiber, Morris Loeb Professor of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Emeritus will be a co-recipient of the 2025 Robert A. Welch Award in Chemistry for his research in the field of chemical biology. Peter G. Schultz, Skaggs Presidential Chair and professor of chemistry at Scripps Research, will also receive the award this year. The…

Henry Louis Gates Jr., Alphonse Fletcher University Professor and director of the W.E.B. Du Bois Research Institute at the Hutchins Center for African & African American Research, has announced the 2025-2026 class of fellows. “We are happy to welcome our next cohort of W.E.B. Du Bois Research Institute Fellows,” says Gates. New to the Du…

The explosion of modern AI, exemplified by the unprecedented abilities of large language models (LLMs), was enabled by a family of computational techniques known as machine learning (ML). But how exactly does a machine learn anything? In this explainer, we dive into one of the most important tools in the ML toolbox: reinforcement learning (RL).…

In the 1920s, Volodymyr Vynnychenko had just arrived in France when a police representative, handing the Ukrainian writer his right-of-residence papers, stated that Ukraine “n’existe pas” in the eyes of Europe. His nationality would instead be registered as Russian. “That was the moment when he realized — and he put it in his letters —…

Harvard’s Program in General Education has awarded the inaugural Faculty Prize for Excellence in General Education to James Loeb Professor of Classics Kathleen Coleman for her course Gen Ed 1131: Loss.  Established this year, the prize includes a $5,000 stipend and recognizes the lead instructor of a transformative General Education course that models exemplary pedagogical…

In a gathering at the Harvard Ed Portal last week, University leaders, including President Alan Garber and Executive Vice President Meredith Weenick, joined Kairos Shen, chief of planning for the city of Boston, and Boston City Councilor Liz Breadon to celebrate the Allston-Brighton nonprofits who were recipients of the 17th annual Harvard Allston Partnership Fund…

The Faculty of Arts and Sciences has awarded the Thomas T. Hoopes Prize to 71 Harvard College seniors, in recognition of outstanding research or scholarly work. The prize is funded by the estate of Thomas T. Hoopes, Class of 1919.    To view the full list of 2025 prize recipients with the titles of their research projects and…

William W. Robinson, the Maida and George Abrams curator of drawings, emeritus, at the Harvard Art Museums, a leading authority on northern European drawings, has passed away at the age of 75. Robinson was a revered member of the Harvard Art Museums community from 1976 until long past his retirement in 2015. Renowned for his…