Last week, scholars, policymakers, and political leaders convened at @Kennedy_School to discuss Venezuela’s future following the capture on January 3 of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro—who had been in power since 2013—by U.S. forces.
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The @HarvardAlumni (HAA) nominating committee has announced the 2026 candidate slates for the Board of Overseers (one of the University’s two governing boards) and the HAA’s own elected directors.
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Semiconductors sit at the heart of today’s most consequential technologies, powering advances in AI, quantum computing, and next-generation wireless networks. @HarvardHBS’s Willy Shih @WillyShih_atHBS explains their rise in the U.S. economy.
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Ask any @Harvard student where they get their campus news and gossip and you’ll find a clear consensus for the source of information. It’s called Sidechat.
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The American Repertory Theater @americanrep's performance of Wonder, adapted for the stage by Sarah Ruhl, extends R.J. Palacio’s widely read 2012 novel into a glimmering musical that foregrounds imagination, belonging, and loyalty.
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In a Jan. 5 ruling with national implications for research universities, including Harvard the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit barred the NIH from retroactively capping reimbursement for certain research costs at 15%.
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Ava Jinying Salzman ’23 has an obsession: drawing monsters. Amid the chaos, fear, and isolation of COVID-19, she began sketching creatures to reflect her mental health. In 2023, Salzman opened a TikTok account that now reaches thousands.
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The New START Treaty, signed in 2010 and expiring next month in February 2026, is the last major arms control agreement between the United States and Russia limiting nuclear arsenals. @Kennedy_School’s Matthew Bunn explains the treaty.
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Matthew Bunn is a professor of foreign policy at @Kennedy_School. In this interview, he shares his perspective on the critical challenges facing nuclear policy today and what they mean for international security moving forward.
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How should societies develop policy around technology? A December @HarvardAsh panel examined how social media, AI, and digital platforms are reshaping markets, labor, and even the way the United States is governed.
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Terence Capellini @TDCapellini, a professor in the department of human evolutionary biology at Harvard University @HarvardHEB has spent the past several years analyzing human pelvic evolution to explain why bipedalism may have evolved.
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The Trump administration filed an appeal this week of the U.S. District Court ruling that had restored $2.7 billion to Harvard in federal grants and contracts to fund the government’s research priorities.
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The race to send humans to Mars is underway. Faculty and alumni across Harvard’s schools and disciplines have been among those tackling the challenges astronauts would face if they traveled to the Red Planet…and stayed.
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How have TikTok and streaming services like @Spotify and @AppleMusic changed the way we experience or analyze popular music? Michèle Duguay is a lecturer on music at Harvard whose work explores these questions.
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In recent decades, research into glacial ice has shown that ancient societies, including the Romans, altered the atmosphere long before factory chimneys darkened modern skies.
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Former president and professor Lawrence H. Summers is taking a leave from teaching duties as the Harvard administration opens an investigation into Summers’s and other affiliates’ relationships with convicted child sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.
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The Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) announced on Wednesday that its science doctoral programs would reduce admissions this year by 50 percent—a reprieve from even deeper proposed cuts, which had prompted an outcry from faculty members.
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