Stephanie Dragoi

SEAS Pilots Client-Facing Capstone Option for Engineering Students

Harvard undergraduates pursuing engineering degrees can now formally partner with an outside client — including industry partners — for their senior capstone project under a pilot launched this fall by the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences.

‘A Fully-Formed Comedy Writer at 18’: How B.J. Novak ’01 Found His Voice at Harvard

B.J. Novak ’01 arrived at Harvard with the comedic competence of a seasoned professional.

David Parkes Has a Plan for SEAS. His Hardest Decision Still Looms Over It.

SEAS Dean David Parkes is trying to rally Harvard’s youngest school around AI, climate, and entrepreneurship — but after layoffs that strained staff, students, and faculty, his biggest challenge may be rebuilding trust at home.

‘It’s Really Unfortunate’: Students Say SEAS Layoffs Have Strained Labs, Courses, and Support Networks

As SEAS grapples with budget pressures and staff cuts, students say the consequences are showing up in disrupted courses, unfixed machines, and shrinking support.

Harvard’s Computer Science Faculty Keep Heading to Industry. SEAS is Trying to Keep a Foot in Both Worlds.

12 of 43 SEAS tenure-track professors affiliated with computer science currently hold or have held industry positions within the past five years during their time at Harvard. The rapid growth of artificial intelligence has drawn a significant share of Harvard’s computer science faculty into roles at major technology companies.

Harvard College Moving Toward Launch of New “Energy, Climate, and Environment” Concentration

Harvard College is moving toward the launch of a new interdisciplinary concentration called “Energy, Climate, and Environment” in the 2026-27 academic year, bringing students together across the sciences, social sciences, and humanities to study climate-related issues.

Harvard Students Turn to Entrepreneurship As University Moves to Keep Pace

Entrepreneurship is drawing increasing interest among Harvard students, driven by rising technology salaries and national shifts in the startup economy — though some investors and alumni say the University’s support for founders still lags behind peer institutions.

As Cambridge Faces a Life Sciences Downturn, Startups Turn to a New Industry: Warfare

As biotech firms shed jobs and life sciences funding dries up, policymakers have started to see defense technology as a way to buttress the Massachusetts economy. Industry experts say Cambridge may become one of the nation’s fastest-growing hubs for defense and national security startups.

Facing Wary Investors and the Lure of Outsourcing, Cambridge Biotech Firms Turn Away From Basic Research

Tariff pressures, a changing regulatory environment, and risk-averse investors have left many Cambridge biotechnology companies seeing decreased new drug development — and outsourcing parts of the research process.

CRA Advances Affordable Housing Project With Purchase of Margaret Fuller Neighborhood House Lot

The Cambridge Redevelopment Authority voted, on Wednesday, to purchase an underutilized parking lot from the Margaret Fuller Neighborhood House, a local non-profit which operates a food pantry for Cambridge residents.

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Pro-Palestine Caps at HSPH Convocation 2025

As Harvard School of Public Health Dean Andrea A. Baccarelli addressed the crowd at the school’s 2025 Convocation, some students wore caps decorated with pro-Palestine messaging.

HSPH Convocation 2025

Students gathered at the Agganis Arena at Boston University for the Harvard School of Public Health’s 2025 Convocation.

Cambridge SuperPAC Donations Across The City

Cambridge SuperPACs Donation Across The Nation

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