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Meet five students who are working with faculty on summer research projects ranging from heat mortality and epigenetics to Legionnaires’ disease and anorexia.

Supported by philanthropy, Harvard Kennedy School’s new American Service Fellowship will fully fund a one-year master’s degree for at least 50 public servants and military veterans. 

Threats to federal research funding for universities endanger scientific breakthroughs and disease prevention, treatment, and cures.

Explore examples of life-changing innovations by Harvard Medical School researchers who are revolutionizing patient care with groundbreaking discoveries in medicine and clinical practice. 

Listen to the debut episode of Terms of Engagement, a new live series from Harvard’s Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation that breaks down the latest in American politics with fresh insights from both sides of the aisle—plus expert analysis you won’t find anywhere else.

An international team of researchers demonstrated that they can grow green algae inside shelters made out of bioplastics in Mars-like conditions, a first step toward designing sustainable habitats in space that won’t require bringing materials from Earth.

Students from the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences developed TempSense, a thermos-shaped storage container designed to ensure drugs are kept at the right temperature as they’re delivered to hospitals, pharmacies, or at-home users.

Harvard innovation—in medicine, technology, education, and beyond—has made Americans' lives easier, healthier, and safer for nearly 400 years.

Harvard research across multiple fronts seeks to expand the impact of a cancer therapy that has left patients and doctors awestruck.

Harvard researchers hope to harness the cognitive benefits of a workout for Alzheimer’s patients with mobility issues.

Across the University, Harvard students, scholars, and faculty turn ideas into ventures that solve problems and create value.

Funded through the President’s Building Bridges Fund, four Harvard student groups launched projects this spring to engage fellow students in meaningful conversations on challenging topics and create frameworks for productive discussions.

Sylvia Mathews Burwell AB ’87 has been elected president of the Harvard Board of Overseers for the 2025–2026 academic year. Monica Bharel MPH ’12 will serve as vice chair of the board’s executive committee for the same term.

A team of Harvard physicists cooled a system made of neutral atoms down a record hundred billion times below room temperature, creating what Faculty of Arts and Sciences professor Markus Greiner calls “the most pristine artificial quantum system ever.” In so doing, the researchers have made it possible to simulate materials in ways that normal computers can’t.

Thousands of alumni from around the world gathered on campus Friday for Harvard Alumni Day — an annual event celebrating alumni of all Harvard Schools and class years and the collective strength of their communities.

Doug Melton’s life irrevocably changed the day his son was diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes. Now, more than 30 years later, the Harvard molecular biologist and his colleagues are within sight of a new treatment that uses stem cells to make healthy insulin-producing cells that can be transplanted into patients.

The virtual quiz game Tango, developed at Harvard, pairs Democrats and Republicans on common teams, where bipartisanship quickly emerges as a competitive advantage. The results showed decreased negative partisanship, increased warmth, and even financial generosity between U.S. players from opposing parties.

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.