Founding donor Hansjörg Wyss doubled his gift to Harvard's Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering from $125 million to $250 million to the University to further advance the institute's pioneering work.

Michael Shinagel was honored on May 14 for his accomplishments as dean of the Extension School, a position he has held since 1977. He will be retiring at the end of this academic year.

For the fourth consecutive year, the Pforzheimer House dining services staff helped students and staff celebrate GreekFest by creating a delicious feast.

Kate McFarlin, president of the Harvard Club of Shanghai, wears her dual enthusiasms for Harvard and China on her sleeve.

Former National Ocean and Atmospheric Administration administrator Jane Lubchenco described her four years in Washington, D.C., as difficult and frustrating, but said it's imperative that other scientists follow suit to give science a voice in nation...

At an event at Harvard Business School (HBS) that was three parts analysis and one part rally, participants tried to chart a new path forward for the sluggish U.S. economy — a move that may require a new definition of "competitiveness."

Humanitarian relief workers and climate scientists gathered in Cambridge this week to discuss the connection between climate change and humanitarian disasters and what relief workers can learn from science.

Five years after Harvard and Boston struck a community benefits cooperation agreement, the University's neighbors in Allston-Brighton point to an enhanced partnership that has resulted in a vibrant Harvard Allston Education Portal, workforce preparat...

A malfunction aboard NASA's Kepler Space Telescope has jeopardized what has been one of the agency's highest-profile missions, one that has revealed a galaxy rich with planets. The Gazette talked to Astronomy Professor Dimitar Sasselov, one of the mi...

The culmination of the Harvard Horizons initiative was a symposium in which eight Ph.D. students each offered five-minute presentations, styled on the popular TED talks, about a specific aspect of their current research.

Professor Anne Harrington and her husband, MIT Museum Director John Durant, have been appointed master and co-master of Pforzheimer House.

Stephen Dupont, an award-winning photographer who traveled repeatedly to Papua New Guinea as a Robert Gardner Fellow, is displaying his works showing the intersection of traditional Papuan life and the industrialized world in a new exhibit at the Pea...

Led by Joshua Sanes and Jeff Lichtman, a group of Harvard researchers has made a host of technical improvements in the "Brainbow" imaging technique.

Researchers from Harvard-affiliated Brigham and Women's Hospital (BWH) are the first to report that synthetic silicate nanoplatelets (also known as layered clay) can induce stem cells to become bone cells without the need of additional bone-inducing ...

The Harvard Alumni Association (HAA) has announced that James V. Baker '68, M.B.A. '71, William Thaddeus Coleman Jr., J.D. '43, LL.D. '96, and Georgene Botyos Herschbach, A.M. '63, Ph.D. '69, are the recipients of the 2013 Harvard Medal. First awarde...

A team at Tel Aviv University in Israel and the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics has just discovered an exoplanet using a new method that relies on Einstein's special theory of relativity.

Former Ethiopian judge and political prisoner Birtukan Midekssa, at Harvard as a Scholar at Risk, argues that her native land — with its heritage of religious tolerance and its innate appetite for liberty — is ripe for democracy.

Harvard staff attended a workforce management conference to learn skills to communicate, solve problems, and innovate effectively across cultures.

Judges on Thursday gave an innovative Harvard group $30,000 and the grand prize in the inaugural Deans' Cultural Entrepreneurship Challenge.