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Technologies developed by Harvard's David Liu have led to two remarkable medical breakthroughs: a personalized treatment that saved a baby with a fatal genetic disorder and the first successful application of prime editing for a rare immune disease.

Kannon K. Shanmugam AB ’93, JD ’98, a prominent and prolific appellate attorney, will join the Harvard Corporation as its newest member. He will succeed Theodore V. Wells Jr. JD ’76, MBA ’76, who departs the board after 12 years of service.

A firefighter-paramedic before coming to Harvard Kennedy School, Rupen Dajee MPA '25 started a technology venture that develops tools to help solve some of the challenges facing wildland firefighting, emergency services, and disaster management.

In a video interview with NPR's Morning Edition, President Alan Garber said institutions need to double down on their "commitment to the good of the nation" and be firm in what they stand for.

President Alan Garber sat down with the Harvard Gazette to reflect on the challenges of a turbulent year and the promise of Commencement.

Six alumni have been elected to the University’s Board of Overseers and another six to the board of directors of the Harvard Alumni Association. 

With support from Harvard’s Bok Center for Teaching and Learning, graduate student teachers make classrooms a place for open inquiry and constructive dialogue.

Incoming Harvard Alumni Association board president William Makris EdM '00 hopes alumni will share experiences and learn from one another.

Ultan McCaffrey MPH ’25 has been able to combine his interest in space medicine with his work in geriatric psychiatry in Harvard Chan School’s MPH-GEN program.

GLP-1 has transformed the treatment of obesity, diabetes, and cardiometabolic disorders that affect more than a billion people worldwide. But when Harvard researcher Joel Habener set up an experiment that helped lead to the discovery of the hormone more than three decades ago, this outcome was far from clear.

Suzanne Glassburn will serve as chief administrative officer of the governing boards, which are comprised of the Harvard Corporation and the Board of Overseers.

Harvard professor David Deming PhD '10—a nationally recognized scholar at the intersection of education, labor markets, and economic inequality—will begin as Danoff Dean of Harvard College effective July 1.

Harvard Kennedy School invited voters of all political leanings from all over America to talk about what matters to them and hear their hopes for the country. 

Harvard researchers have unveiled a way to map the molecular underpinnings of how learning and memories are formed, a groundbreaking new technique expected to offer insights that may pave the way for new treatments for neurological disorders such as dementia.

Protecting mothers during childbirth, reimagining how hydrogen can be transported safely and affordably, improving financial outcomes for livestock farmers. These are just a few of the extraordinary winning ventures of the 2025 Harvard President’s Innovation Challenge.

At Harvard Forest in Petersham, Massachusetts, ecologists are studying the effects of climate change on the landscape—and seeing the damage in real time. The 4,000-acre forest and its trove of collected data, which attract researchers from around the globe, is a true labor of love for the faculty who work there and key to understanding what a warming world means for nature—and for humans.

The Salata Institute for Climate and Sustainability announced a sixth round of seed grant awards for work on understudied and emerging topics in climate and sustainability. Among other things, Harvard researchers will examine chocolate production in a changing climate, new materials to harvest moisture, and Kazakhstan's green transition.

As a promising alternative to existing carbon capture technologies, researchers from the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences have developed carbon capture systems that use molecules called quinones, dissolved in water, as their capturing compounds.

In her role at Colorado State University, Harvard Business School alumna Jordan Kraft Lambert MBA ’16 serves as the nexus for farmers, entrepreneurs, and researchers working to improve agriculture and protect the planet.

With funding from the Salata Institute for Climate and Sustainability, new interdisciplinary research teams of Harvard faculty are taking on two of the biggest sources of planet-heating emissions: buildings and transportation. Combined, these account for over half the world’s carbon pollution.