Quincy House Dining Staff Will Not Report to Work After Two Co-Workers Test Positive for COVID-19
Harvard University Dining Services employees working in Quincy House’s dining hall stopped reporting to work Saturday after two of their co-workers tested positive for COVID-19.
With Billie Eilish Parodies and Zoom Backgrounds, Harvard Rings in Virtual Housing Day
Adorned in festive shirts and boasting House-themed Zoom backgrounds, hundreds of upperclassmen crowded into one of twelve virtual sessions to welcome members of the Class of 2023 to their newly assigned dorms Friday.
Harvard Postpones Opening of Allston Science and Engineering Complex to Spring 2021
Harvard will delay the opening of its new Science and Engineering Complex in Allston until spring 2021, School of Engineering and Applied Sciences Dean Francis J. Doyle III announced in an email to SEAS affiliates Friday afternoon.
Harvard Athletes May Not Take Spring Off for Coronavirus Eligibility Relief
Varsity athletes whose spring seasons were canceled due to the coronavirus will not be able to use their extra year of National Collegiate Athletics Association eligibility at Harvard by taking a semester off, according to a Thursday email from Athletics Director Robert L. Scalise.
Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences Unable to Cover FY2020 Budget After Netting $30 Million in Coronavirus Losses
Harvard’s Faculty of Arts and Sciences is unable to cover its budget for Fiscal Year 2020 after incurring more than $30 million in “unforeseen expenses and lost revenue” due to the coronavirus pandemic, FAS Dean Claudine Gay wrote in an email to faculty and staff Friday.
Harvard Commits to Technology Access Framework During COVID-19 Crisis
Harvard has announced its commitment to the COVID-19 Technology Access Framework, which allows the use of non-exclusive and royalty-free licenses of intellectual property rights for products aimed at combating the coronavirus pandemic.
Harvard Law School Clinic Calls for Equity in State Pandemic Response
The Harvard Law School Center for Health Law and Policy Innovation and the American Civil Liberties Union of Massachusetts called on the Massachusetts Department of Public Health to ensure equity and personal privacy in its response to the coronavirus pandemic in a letter late last week.
Many Harvard Athletes Will Forego Post-Grad Play Opportunity as Coronavirus Cancels Season
The Ivy League and Harvard recently announced they would not allow students an extra year of eligibility due to the coronavirus despite an NCAA allowance. But many Harvard athletes say they did not consider doing so in the first place.
Washington Post Reporter Talks 'Hair-on-Fire-Briefing,' Coronavirus Coverage at IOP Forum
Lena H. Sun, a national health reporter for the Washington Post, spoke about her experience covering the novel coronavirus outbreak during the Harvard Kennedy School Institute of Politics’s third “Fast Forum” Thursday evening.
- Harvard Grad Union Reaches Tentative Workload Agreement With University, Calls for Fully-Funded 'Bridge Year'
- Responding to Coronavirus Financial Crisis, Harvard Graduate Students Seek Student Loan Relief
- Harvard to Issue $1.1 Billion in Bonds, Capitalizing on Low Interest Rate
- Writing Center Moves to Online Tutoring System
- Harvard Astrophysicists Detect Binary White Dwarf System Generating Gravitational Waves
Opinion
Using Social Media To Uplift, Not Tear Down
During these unprecedented times, we need to be using social media to support and uplift each other, especially those most vulnerable, not to re-trigger and tear each other down.
What the Great War Can Teach Us about the Great Pandemic
The world has unexpectedly changed dramatically before and it can do so again. Like WWI, this pandemic will surely end. The question is whether it will have permanent, drastic consequences.
- Harvard Grad Union Reaches Tentative Workload Agreement With University, Calls for Fully-Funded 'Bridge Year'
- Responding to Coronavirus Financial Crisis, Harvard Graduate Students Seek Student Loan Relief
- Harvard to Issue $1.1 Billion in Bonds, Capitalizing on Low Interest Rate
- Writing Center Moves to Online Tutoring System
- Harvard Astrophysicists Detect Binary White Dwarf System Generating Gravitational Waves
Opinion
Using Social Media To Uplift, Not Tear Down
During these unprecedented times, we need to be using social media to support and uplift each other, especially those most vulnerable, not to re-trigger and tear each other down.
What the Great War Can Teach Us about the Great Pandemic
The world has unexpectedly changed dramatically before and it can do so again. Like WWI, this pandemic will surely end. The question is whether it will have permanent, drastic consequences.
