Harvard in the World

A first-of-its-kind Rurality Forum, organized by the Harvard Undergraduate Rural League and supported by the President's Building Bridges Fund, aims to address small-town America’s most urgent issues while confronting the urban-rural divide.

With states driving new efforts to improve K–12 education, Harvard is helping connect research, policy, and practice—partnering with nine states to strengthen public schools and better serve students nationwide.

The newest cohort of Bloomberg Harvard City Hall Fellows, comprised of 15 recent graduates from five Harvard Schools, will join city hall teams across the country for two years to strengthen local government capacity and help cities address urgent community challenges.

A new collaboration between Harvard and Berkeley, the Green Industrial Strategy Project is exploring how governments and companies can develop strategies that enhance economic competitiveness and facilitate global decarbonization in a world of intensifying geo-economic competition.

Using NASA laser technology from the International Space Station, a new Harvard study reveals the impact of climate change on global tropical forests with greater depth and breadth than ever before.

Climate Up Close—a nonpartisan, nonprofit organization that includes climate scientists from Harvard—discusses climate change at community centers across the U.S., where they with presentations designed to foster open dialogue and trust between scientists and American communities. 

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

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.

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.

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.