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New research suggests genetic testing added to routine newborn screening could identify some babies at increased risk of developing cancer before symptoms appear.

Backed by a $37 million federal grant, a new institute brings together researchers across institutions to accelerate the impact of quantum technologies.

The Harvard Innovation Labs has been recognized by TIME and Statista as one of America's Best Incubators & Accelerators 2026, which ranks the top-performing startup hubs across the United States.

For three decades, the Harvard Forest Summer Research Program in Ecology has prepared undergraduates from around the globe for careers in the sciences.

Since 2014, Harvard and the Warrior-Scholar Project have partnered to prepare military veterans and active-duty service members for success in higher education.

Haim Sompolinsky has won the prestigious Dirac Medal and Prize for his transformative contributions to neuroscience and theoretical physics.

Tomiko Brown-Nagin will step down as dean of the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study in late October after more than eight years in the role.

Harvard Radcliffe Institute convened scholars and leaders with a wide range of political and ideological perspectives to explore issues related to intellectual diversity in higher education.

Harvard scientists are exploring faster diagnostics, better symptom management, and promising cures for conditions that have a long-term impact on our health.

Harvard bioengineers have developed a way to create customized synthetic vascular grafts in mere minutes, which could someday allow surgeons to perform time-sensitive, personalized medical treatments in the operating room.

In a wide-ranging interview at The Economic Club of Washington, D.C., President Alan M. Garber discussed federal research funding and other critical issues facing universities.

A Harvard professor co-created innovative technology that gives some smartphone users alerts about dangerous seismic activity.

Each summer, the Rising Scholars Program (RSP) prepares incoming first-year students from under-resourced high schools to thrive at Harvard College.

Two social scientists at Harvard Kennedy School are advancing the proposition that sports fandom, a powerful social phenomenon and force, may have a role to play in improving lives and strengthening societies.

New grants from the Star Friedman Challenge for Promising Scientific Research will support seven cutting-edge research projects led by faculty across Harvard.

Jeffrey Long PhD ’95 will serve as Thomas C. Foley Professor of Energy and the Environment and director of the Harvard Materials Initiative.

A new initiative aims to equip the Harvard Graduate School of Education community with the skills, mindsets, and opportunities to engage constructively across differences in perspective, identity, and lived experience.

Technology born out of Harvard labs shows the power of collaboration and how the path to development seldom follows a straight line.

Harvard Kennedy School professor Tarek Masoud received the 2026 Courage Award from the Heterodox Academy—a nonprofit dedicated to advancing viewpoint diversity on college campuses—for fostering “polite but rigorous inquiry” into the polarizing conflicts in the Middle East.

Harvard chemical biologist Greg Verdine, a force behind a promising experimental treatment for pancreatic cancer, learned the value of improvisational thinking from a devastating family accident.