Harvard

Tom Hanks told graduates of Harvard University on Thursday to be superheroes in their defense of truth and American ideals, and to resist those who twist the truth for their own gain.

“I was completely in shock,” said Matthew Myslenski, who has dreamed of attending Harvard since he was in elementary school. “I think it was just one of the best moments in my life.”

Members of the Supreme Court’s conservative majority are questioning the continued use of affirmative action in higher education. In lengthy arguments Monday, the justices wrestled with persistent, difficult questions of race. The justices heard from six different lawyers in challenges to policies at the University of North Carolina and Harvard. Those policies consider race among many factors in evaluating applications...

Many of the people who stormed the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021 did so because of the words of Donald Trump, according to a Harvard report. Hear from Joan Donovan, the report’s author and the research director at the Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy.

Two Harvard University freshmen have launched a website designed to connect people fleeing Ukraine to those in safer countries willing to take them in

Food and mental health are inextricably linked, says Harvard nutritionist and brain expert Dr. Uma Naidoo. Here are the six brain-boosting foods most Americans lack in their diet.

Three Harvard University graduate students allege in a lawsuit that the school ignored complaints about sexual harassment by a professor

“Alias” actor Jennifer Garner is being celebrated for her star power both on- and off-screen.