Using AI for fatigue risk management amongst aviation and transportation workers, expanding visual arts education to grade school students across India, and inventing a new financial platform for supporting relatives living abroad, are three of the 25 initiatives that have been recognized as finalists in the 2025 Harvard President’s Innovation Challenge. “The President’s Innovation Challenge continues…

James Robins, the Mitchell L. and Robin LaFoley Dong Professor of Epidemiology at the T.H. Chan School of Public Health, has been recognized with the 2025 Distinguished Achievement Award and Lectureship by the Committee of Presidents of Statistical Societies (COPSS). The prestigious annual honor, previously known as the RA Fisher Award and Lectureship, recognizes what…

A beloved celebration for all, the weeklong 39th Annual Cultural Rhythms Festival opens Monday at Harvard Commons at the Smith Campus Center with the second annual Cultural Fashion Show and Artist Reveal at 6 p.m. In early February, a call was issued for any Harvard College student who wished to walk in this year’s fashion…

Some of cities’ most complex challenges — like chronic flooding in Charleston, South Carolina; derelict, unsafe housing in Shreveport, Louisiana, and Winnipeg, Canada; and youth at risk in Rosario, Argentina — require collaborative approaches across government, business, nonprofits, and communities.  In mid-March, the Bloomberg Harvard City Leadership Initiative brought 77 participants from multiple sectors to…

The Harvard Global Health Institute welcomed the 2024 Harvard LEAD Fellows to campus this week. The three fellows, Cindy Chan Tha, Wanza Mbole, and Jalikatu Mustapha, will begin their in-person programming at Harvard University.

The Harvard Global Health Institute has announced its 2024-2025 cohort of Visiting Research Scholars. This newly launched program provides Harvard faculty with an opportunity to strengthen collaboration with international researchers in global health. Through a six-week, in-person residency in Cambridge, the program fosters deeper academic engagement and advances joint research initiatives. The 2024–2025 scholars Professor Camila Gianella…

A new paper, published in JAMA Network Open, finds a surprising number of Americans traveling out-of-state for cancer care. The study, co-authored by Center for Geographic Analysis research associate Lingbo Liu, focuses on older adults whose treatment is covered by traditional Medicare, with the most striking results concerning rural Americans. Rural cancer patients in the study’s sample were about…

The Harvard Business School (HBS) Rock Center for Entrepreneurship and the Social Enterprise Initiative recently hosted the second annual Demo Day, a showcase event for early-stage investors. Highlighting a wide variety of student ventures emerging from the School, the event was led by Rock Center faculty members Julia Austin, Lindsay Hyde, Allison Mnookin, and Christina Wallace. Select student teams delivered three-minute pitches to…

American Repertory Theater (A.R.T.) at Harvard University announced on Thursday that it will produce the North American premiere of the West End hit “Two Strangers (Carry a Cake Across New York)” to conclude its 2024/25 season. The “uplifting” (British Vogue), “fresh, funny, ironic, and moving” (The Observer) acclaimed new musical about new beginnings and seeing the world through…

The Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology (CCB) celebrated the launch of the Percy Lavon Julian Prize Lecture on March 3, with an address by the inaugural lecturer Paula Hammond, Institute Professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). This prize lectureship pays homage to Percy Lavon Julian, A.M. ’23, an African American chemist and…

The International Society for Stem Cell Research (ISSCR) is honoring Paola Arlotta, with this year’s Momentum Award. Arlotta is the Golub Family Professor of the Department of Stem Cell and Regenerative Biology in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences and a member at the Broad Institute. She will present her research during the ISSCR 2025…

Harvard Management Company (HMC) announced today that Martín Escobari ’94, MBA ’98, has been elected to join its board of directors.

Victor Seow, Ph.D. ’14, the John L. Loeb Associate Professor of the Social Sciences, has received the Sarton Prize for the History of Science. The award, established by the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1999, recognizes his “exceptional promise and distinguished accomplishments as an emerging scholar in the field.” “The history of science is filled…

“HBS launched the Executive Fellows program in 2020 to provide an avenue by which experienced business leaders and practitioners can contribute to the School’s mission in a variety of meaningful ways,” said Professor Len Schlesinger, chair of the program.

The term “psychedelics” can conjure surreal images of mind-altering journeys through a mystical realm that connects the body to the soul and the soul to divinity. Dreamlike visions can pave the way for healing and transcendence, something Indigenous communities have understood for centuries. But only in the last decade did a “psychedelic renaissance” emerge in…

The Harvard Global Health Institute (HGHI) announced it is now accepting new proposals for forming Scholarly Working Groups (SWG) in Global Health from faculty across Harvard and its affiliated hospitals. The program aims to create a collaborative environment to promote inter-faculty gatherings where faculty can explore or accelerate research areas in topics critical to the advancement of…

The Harvard Choruses will perform a world premiere of “American Jezebel: The Trial of Anne Hutchinson” Saturday, an opera that tells the story of Puritan midwife and theologian  Anne Hutchinson. The opera dramatizes a turbulent chapter of Boston history, where politics, sex, religion, and power collide. At its heart is Hutchinson’s and John Winthrop’s clash…

In celebration of Women’s Week, a new exhibition will feature eight portraits from alumni Stephen Coit ’71 and Robert Shetterly ’69. “Seeing Each Other: A Conversation Between the Harvard Foundation Portraiture Project and Americans Who Tell the Truth,” opens to all on March 3 at Cabot House. “This event marks a historic moment for the…

Roxane Gay doesn’t get tired of engaging with readers on a variety of topics, but she’s ready to stop defining feminism. The author and social commentator opened up about her career, writing process, and what motivates her during the Harvard College Women’s Center’s annual Schmertzler Leadership Seminar on Feb. 12. “It’s 2025, if you don’t…

Davóne Tines ’09, acclaimed operatic bass-baritone, will be the recipient of the 2025 Harvard Arts Medal, which will be awarded by Harvard University President Alan Garber at a spring ceremony in May during the Harvard Arts Festival. “Davóne has reshaped the field of opera, expanding representation, diversifying stories, integrating new music genres, framing opera as a…

Professor Marcella Alsan and the Malcolm Wiener Center for Social Policy have awarded 28 students up to $5,000 each.

The Environment and Natural Resources Program at Harvard Kennedy School’s Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs announced on Monday that ChemFORWARD is the 2024 winner of the Roy Family Award for Environmental Partnership. Through collaborations with consumer product manufacturers, retailers, chemical suppliers, NGOs, and trade groups, ChemFORWARD compiles and maintains a repository of verified…

The Kempner Institute for the Study of Natural and Artificial Intelligence at Harvard is pleased to announce the spring 2025 recipients of the Kempner Undergraduate Research Experience (KURE). KURE awards Harvard undergraduate students funding for term-time research supervised by Kempner-affiliated faculty during the fall and spring semesters of the academic year.  Eighteen students were awarded…

The Harvard Global Health Institute (HGHI) announced its third annual Global Health Symposium will take place at Harvard University  April 10-11. Centered on the theme “Delivering on the Promise of Health Equity,” the symposium will bring together experts from across the globe and from within Harvard University to discuss some of the most pressing issues around global health. The…

On a frigid January afternoon, students, faculty, staff, and alumni from Harvard Divinity School and Harvard College stepped carefully around the ice and snow surrounding Walden Pond. Accompanied only by a phone camera and a spirit of open curiosity, they were invited to explore two reflection prompts as part of “Thinking Through Photography,” a workshop…

The Harvard Kennedy School’s Malcolm Wiener Center and Reimagining the Economy Project welcome Dr. Heather Boushey and Dr. Todd Tucker.

With bold brush strokes and vivid blues set against bright whites, Arturo Deza’s paintings, now on display at the Kempner Institute, are a testament to the idea that meaning, both in science and in art, often emerges in unforeseen ways.  As a professional neuroscientist and artist, Deza combines his expertise in the science of vision…