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Scholars from Harvard and several other institutions explored antisemitism through history and its intersection with universities in a wide-ranging conference at Harvard’s Enterprise Research Center.

Harvard degree holders selected seven fellow alumni to join the University’s Board of Overseers and six to join the board of directors of the Harvard Alumni Association (HAA).

As part of an effort to support students and alumni pursuing careers in the public interest, Harvard Law School is increasing funding for the Public Service Venture Fund and the Summer Public Interest Funding programs.

A team led by Harvard bioengineer David Mooney has developed an “Implantable Living Materials” platform, which aims to provide synthetically engineered, living cells that can sense injury or disease-associated conditions in their environment and deliver the right amount of a therapeutic molecule directly to where it’s needed to aid recovery.

Through a bipartisan philanthropic initiative, Anne Healy JD ’12, MPA/ID ’12 and Lauren Lombardo MPP ’22 are working to make state and federal government more functional and efficient.

Geobiologist and longtime Harvard faculty member David Johnston will lead the Faculty of Arts and Sciences’ Division of Science, bringing a collaborative and interdisciplinary approach to advancing research, teaching, and scientific discovery across Harvard.

A 10-tone skin scale developed by Harvard sociologist Ellis Monk is reshaping medical diagnostics worldwide—helping health care providers more accurately detect conditions in patients with darker skin and saving lives in the process.

As part of the “From Dissent to Dialogue” series—one of the student-led projects funded by the President’s Building Bridges Fund—conservative and progressive law scholars convened at Harvard Law School to trade views on the legitimacy of the Supreme Court.

Made in partnership with the EdRedesign Lab at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, Dream On is a video series about the people, places, and projects across the U.S. that are making progress on economic mobility and addressing intergenerational poverty.

Using the sun to power oxygen delivery in Africa, developing AI to mitigate risks on construction sites, and curing chronic inflammatory diseases with novel small molecules are a few of the winning ideas from the 2026 Harvard President’s Innovation Challenge.

After three decades of research, Harvard Medical School professor Merit Cudkowicz achieved a breakthrough in the fight against ALS. A new study co-led by Cudkowicz found that the drug tofersen can radically slow—and in some cases reverse—the course of the disease in a small subset of patients with a rare genetic variant, proving for the first time that this illness can be stopped.

Three prominent Harvard faculty—stem cell scientist Doug Melton, theoretical computer physicist Boaz Barak, and applied mathematics scholar Michael Brenner—have been appointed Catalyst Professors, a distinguished role that allows leading faculty to pursue industry and academic work concurrently.

Faculty have observed rapid and significant progress in the two semesters since the adoption of the Classroom Social Compact Committee report, which offered a host of recommendations aimed at recentering academics and fostering civil discourse at Harvard College.

The Harvard Legal Aid Bureau, the oldest student-run legal services organization in the country, is partnering with a local parent-led group to protect the rights of families affected by child welfare investigations.

Harvard dedicated the Susan Wojcicki Library at the Science and Engineering Complex to honor the legacy of the late Susan Wojcicki AB ’90, a trailblazing technology leader and former CEO of YouTube.

A three-year, $1.05 million grant to the Association of Historically Black Colleges and Universities Research Institutions will strengthen research capacity at 15 schools.

Laude Institute, a nonprofit research organization, has awarded a “Moonshot” seed grant to a Harvard-led research team building an advanced, AI-supported online platform that allows people across the political spectrum to come together and actually hear each other.

An experimental gene therapy for people with an inherited form of deafness led to durable hearing improvements, according to new study by researchers from Harvard Medical School, Mass Eye and Ear, and Fudan University. 

Learning how to accept feedback—even blistering criticism—and gain something from it is an invaluable skill that can make us better at our jobs and even better citizens, argues Harvard Law School professor Sheila Heen JD ’93, a world-renowned expert on negotiation and conflict resolution.

Many alumni and donors are surprised to learn the myriad ways they can support Harvard philanthropically, through a wide array of assets. We spoke with Karen Johnson, senior director for complex asset gifts at Harvard University, who shared more about the types of assets donors can give as well as the benefits these gifts have for both donors and the University.