You’ll discover a lot at Harvard — from academic endeavors, to new passions and friends, to a better understanding of who you are — Harvard is where you’ll find your place in the world. Our students, faculty, and staff collaborate to create a community where we embrace challenges, encourage curiosity, and achieve learning through living and studying alongside others with different life experiences.
See the Harvard College mission in action from undergraduate students Julius, Madeleine, Cat, Lindey, and Braeden, and faculty members Robert Reid-Pharr, Elsie Sunderland, Ju Yon Kim, and Dustin Tingley. Danoff Dean of Harvard College, Rakesh Khurana, Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Claudine Gay, and President of Harvard University, Lawrence Bacow discuss discoveries and opportunities stemming from the College’s broad liberal arts and sciences education.
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Researchers and conservators opened three ancient Egyptian coffins at the Harvard Semitic Museum last month, discovering a never-before-documented image, while using advanced scanning technology to...
This Valentine’s Day, the student group Datamatch celebrates its 25th running as well as a nationwide expansion to more than two dozen colleges and universities. From its beginnings as a paper ques...
At the Radcliffe Institute, Alaskan Inupiaq poet and Harvard alum Joan Naviyuk Kane keeps her language and culture alive through her art and her family.
The Memorial Church’s Annual Christmas Carols Service will feature a range of carols both familiar and fresh including a new work by the church’s composer in residence Carson Cooman ’04.
In Briggs-Copeland Lecturer Laura van den Berg’s creative writing course, “Haunted: Writing the Supernatural,” students put their imaginations to work creating their own tales of demons, monsters, ...
Inspired by jumping spiders, Harvard University researchers developed a compact and efficient depth sensor that could be used on microrobots, in small wearable devices or in lightweight virtual and...
Harvard’s Project Teach program works to help local seventh graders develop a “college-going identity.” A cornerstone of the program is a visit to Harvard’s campus, where students participate in a ...
Inspired by one of Harvard Yard’s famous gates, “To Serve Better” is a yearlong Harvard Gazette project exploring the connections between members of the Harvard community and neighborhoods across t...
William G. Kaelin Jr., is one of three winners of the 2019 Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine. Kaelin is the Sidney Farber Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School and a professor of medi...
Izzy Goodchild-Michelman '23 helped to create educational lessons for Spartanburg, South Carolina schoolchildren as part of the Hub City Urban Farm's Seed to Table program. Goodchild-Michelman, a S...
You know right away when you see an effective chart or graphic. It hits you with an immediate sense of its meaning and impact. But what actually makes it clearer, sh...
In Briggs-Copeland Lecturer Laura van den Berg’s creative writing course, “Haunted: Writing the Supernatural,” students put their imaginations to work creating their own tales of demons, monsters, ...
Leslie Jamison recently published her new book, a collection of essays called Make It Scream, Make It Burn, in September 2019. She's also written a novel, The Gin Closet, a collection of essays, Th...
Martha Tedeschi, Elizabeth and John Moors Cabot Director of the Harvard Art Museums discusses the recently acquired drawing “Four Studies of Male Heads” by the Dutch master Rembrandt Harmensz van R...
The Arts First festival, featuring concerts, exhibitions, and hands-on activities, highlights Harvard’s creative spirit inside and out of the classroom. The festival, now in its 27th year, opens wi...
Steeped in 171 years of history, 2019 marks the first year women take the stage as part of the Hasty Pudding cast. Six men and six women comprise the on-stage talent, performing the student origina...
Words have power whether they are written by an author whose work is featured in a prestigious publication or if the words sit largely unseen in the laptop of someone who writes fiction as a hobby....
In the United States, full-time women workers earn, on average, 20 percent less than men. In this video, Hannah Riley Bowles, Roy E. Larsen Senior Lecturer in Public Policy and Management; co-direc...
Despite dramatic social transformations in the United States during the last 150 years, the South has remained staunchly conservative. Southerners are more likely to support Republican candidates, ...
As part of New York Climate Week, Professor George Serafeim talks about how we can ensure that companies are accountable for their impacts on all stakeholders through impact-weighted financial acco...
Luciana Baigun (MBA 2014) wants to revolutionize the landscape of cities around the world. At the electronic scooter company Bird, Baigun is putting her management skills at the service of others a...
One of the most important topics in public policy is how governments should respond to the exponential growth of consumer internet companies like Amazon, Google and Facebook. In this video, Jason F...
Although household growth is returning to a more normal pace, the 2019 State of the Nation's Housing report from the Harvard Joint Center for Housing Studies shows that housing production still fal...
Citizens of democracies around the world are increasingly concerned about the ways that personal data is collected, stored, and shared by private companies such as Facebook, Google and Apple. In th...
In 1988, the Harvard Joint Center for Housing Studies released its first report on the State of the Nation's Housing. In the 30 years since, many U.S. housing challenges have persisted and, in some...
The State of the Nation's Housing, an annual report that has been released by the Harvard Joint Center for Housing Studies since 1988, describes key trends in both national and metro-level homeowne...