Faculty News
Harvard Launches ‘Impact Labs’ To Fund Social Scientists Who Partner With Outside Organizations
Harvard will pilot a program — named Harvard Impact Labs — to fund collaboration between social scientists and leaders in the public and private sectors.
Faculty Searches in Limbo As Freeze Interrupts Hiring Processes Across Harvard
Harvard’s imposition of a hiring freeze on Monday morning interrupted faculty hiring processes across the University, leaving professors scrambling to figure out how to fill vacancies — and how to keep their departments’ work running if they can’t.
Harvard Poised To Eliminate Option To Take Gen Ed, QRD Courses Pass-Fail
Faculty of Arts and Sciences professors expressed broad support at a Tuesday FAS meeting for proposals to eliminate the option to take courses fulfilling the Harvard College General Education and Quantitative Reasoning with Data requirements on a pass-fail basis.
Non-Tenure Track Faculty Deliver Petition on Time Caps to Harvard President Garber
Non-tenure-track faculty delivered a petition with almost 1,400 signatures calling for an end to time caps to top Harvard officials on Thursday as the group’s new union bargains for its first contract with the University.
When Professors Speak Out, Some Students Stay Quiet. Can Harvard Keep Everyone Talking?
A faculty committee urged the FAS to assure professors that their opinions outside the classroom will not affect what courses they can teach — and advised instructors to make sure students know they won’t be penalized for disagreeing.
Faculty of Arts and Sciences Diversity Dean Position Left Vacant For Nearly Two Years
Harvard’s Faculty of Arts and Sciences has been without an associate dean for diversity, inclusion, and belonging for nearly two years after Sheree M. Ohen left Harvard for Amherst University in April 2023.
FAS Faculty Praise Proposed Non-Attribution Policy, But Ask Whether It Will Stand Up to Subpoenas
A recent Faculty of Arts and Sciences report recommended that the FAS enforce a non-attribution policy for classroom speech — but professors questioned at a Tuesday meeting whether the proposed rule would allow statements to remain private in the face of subpoenas.
SEAS Professor Jennifer Lewis Awarded James Prize
The National Academy of Sciences awarded Harvard professor Jennifer A. Lewis the 2025 James Prize in Science and Technology Integration. Lewis’ work uses ink to 3D print biological materials such as human cells.
Garber Appoints 16 Professors to Inaugural Faculty Advisory Council
Harvard President Alan M. Garber ’76 appointed a slate of 16 faculty members to serve on the University’s inaugural faculty advisory council during the group’s first two years.
Faculty Senate Planning Body Launches Work
The planning body tasked with designing a University-wide faculty senate held its first meeting in early December, launching its work after seven of Harvard’s nine faculties voted to move forward.
Harvard Medical School Sends Delegates to Faculty Senate Planning Body
Professors at Harvard Medical School sent delegates to a University-wide faculty senate planning body in early January, making HMS the eighth of Harvard’s nine faculties to join the effort to design a faculty senate.
Former U.S. Ambassador to China To Return to Kennedy School Professorship
Former U.S. Ambassador to China R. Nicholas Burns will return to the Harvard Kennedy School as a professor this April, joining the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies, the University announced earlier this week.
Robert Wolff ’53-’54, Social Studies’ Last Founding Father, Remembered as a Public-Spirited Philosopher
Robert P. Wolff ’53-’54, a political philosopher and activist who was the last surviving co-founder of Harvard’s Social Studies concentration, died in January at 91.
‘Opportunity to Experiment’: Visiting HBCU Scholars Praise Harvard’s Visiting Professorship Program
Four visiting professors from historically Black colleges and universities praised Harvard’s Faculty of Arts and Sciences Dean’s Visiting Professorship Program for offering the opportunity and funding to explore their scholarly work.
Harvard’s Derek Bok Center Lays Off 5 Employees Under New Faculty Director
The Derek Bok Center for Teaching and Learning quietly laid off at least five employees over the past two weeks as part of a restructuring effort, reducing its total staff by almost 25 percent.
