Harvard Divinity School Suspends Religion, Conflict, and Peace Initiative
Harvard Divinity School will suspend its Religion, Conflict, and Peace Initiative amid budget cuts at HDS and public accusations that the initiative’s programming presents a one-sided view of the Israel-Palestine conflict.
Harvard Opposes Plaintiffs’ Motion To Remain Unnamed in Kestenbaum Suit
Harvard filed its opposition in court on Friday to a motion to allow two plaintiffs to proceed pseudonymously as they seek to join Harvard Divinity School graduate Alexander “Shabbos” Kestenbaum’s ongoing Title VI lawsuit against the University.
Meet The 2025 HUA Candidates
As Harvard undergraduates prepare to vote for the next co-presidents of the Harvard Undergraduate Association, The Crimson sat down with all candidates to hear their vision for the position.
17 Senators Call for Release of HMS Researcher Kseniia Petrova
A group of 17 U.S. senators demanded the release of Harvard Medical School researcher Kseniia Petrova, who was detained in Boston Logan Airport after a personal trip to France in February, in a Monday letter.
Human Evolutionary Biology Concentration Will Be Officially Renamed This Summer
Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences has officially voted to change the name of the Human Evolutionary Biology concentration during a meeting on April 1. Effective as of July 1, 2025 — when the academic year rolls over — the concentration will now be known as Human Biology, Behavior, and Evolution.
Five HUA Presidential Tickets Debate Student Issues to Nearly Empty Audience
Just hours before voting opened for the Harvard Undergraduate Association elections, 10 candidates vying for the co-presidency went head to head in a sparsely attended debate hosted by the Harvard Political Review.
Harvard Professor Questions Trump’s Alien Enemies Act Application at HLS Talk
Harvard Law School professor W. Neil Eggleston — former President Barack Obama’s White House Counsel and a member of President Bill Clinton’s Counsel Office — discussed President Donald Trump’s executive authority to trigger the Alien Enemies Act without following due process at a Tuesday lunch talk.
Human Evolutionary Biology Concentration Will Be Officially Renamed This Summer
Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences has officially voted to change the name of the Human Evolutionary Biology concentration during a meeting on April 1. Effective as of July 1, 2025 — when the academic year rolls over — the concentration will now be known as Human Biology, Behavior, and Evolution.
Five HUA Presidential Tickets Debate Student Issues to Nearly Empty Audience
Just hours before voting opened for the Harvard Undergraduate Association elections, 10 candidates vying for the co-presidency went head to head in a sparsely attended debate hosted by the Harvard Political Review.
Harvard Professor Questions Trump’s Alien Enemies Act Application at HLS Talk
Harvard Law School professor W. Neil Eggleston — former President Barack Obama’s White House Counsel and a member of President Bill Clinton’s Counsel Office — discussed President Donald Trump’s executive authority to trigger the Alien Enemies Act without following due process at a Tuesday lunch talk.
300 Alums Call on HLS to Denounce Trump’s Attacks on Law Firms
More than 300 Harvard Law School alumni signed a letter asking Dean John C.P. Goldberg to speak out against the Trump administration’s efforts to penalize law firms for representing the president’s political adversaries in recent weeks.
Fears over Safety of Energy Facility in Brighton Will Lead City to Adopt New Regulations
Boston’s first Battery Energy Storage System, proposed for construction in Brighton at 35 Electric Ave., has generated a wave of resident backlash to underdeveloped regulation of BESS facilities, which state officials say are necessary to achieve carbon neutrality.
Residents Call For Toner’s Resignation at City Council Meeting
For the first time since Cambridge learned of City Councilor Paul F. Toner’s criminal charges, residents were given the opportunity to publicly address the charges at Monday’s City Council meeting.
Fifteen Questions: Alison Frank Johnson on the Power of Stories, Lacrosse, and Why She Speaks Up
The Germanic Languages and Literature department chair sat down with Fifteen Minutes to talk about how history enables reasoned debate, her research on post-war Germany, and her most recent reads.
Can Hopi Hoekstra Have It Both Ways?
As Faculty of Arts and Sciences Dean Hopi E. Hoekstra has found repeatedly, it’s hard to simultaneously serve Harvard, the corporation churning through the news cycle, and Harvard, the collective of researchers and students filling its classrooms and labs.
An Aviation Paradise
“Traditionally, you don’t think of aviation as necessarily an interest or topic because you would write someone off as an avgeek,” he tells me. “You just embrace the identity. I mean, I love planes.”
UAW President Urges Harvard Not to ‘Cave’ to Trump Admin at IOP Forum
United Auto Workers President Shawn Fain called on Harvard to stand up against the Trump administration’s attacks on federal funding at an Institute of Politics forum on Monday.
Meet The 2025 HUA Candidates
As Harvard undergraduates prepare to vote for the next co-presidents of the Harvard Undergraduate Association, The Crimson sat down with all candidates to hear their vision for the position.
17 Senators Call for Release of HMS Researcher Kseniia Petrova
A group of 17 U.S. senators demanded the release of Harvard Medical School researcher Kseniia Petrova, who was detained in Boston Logan Airport after a personal trip to France in February, in a Monday letter.
