Derek Curtis Bok (born 1930) served as dean of the Harvard Law School until he was named president of Harvard University in 1970. In this position he helped broaden the university's mission in its relationship to the larger community while retaining...

A Harvard University professor who accused the school of gender discrimination has withdrawn her resignation, but said Thursday that the school's landscape architecture department remains a bastion of sexism.Martha Schwartz, 56, complained that the department has never had a tenured female professor in its 106...

Harvard University plans to expand across the Charles River from its Cambridge campus and to build new academic buildings, student housing and a public square in a project that is expected to cost several billion dollars and take 50 years to complete.The university released its...

Harvard University was expected to name historian Drew Gilpin Faust as its first woman president on Sunday, ending a lengthy and secretive search to find a successor to Lawrence Summers and his tumultuous five-year tenure.The board of overseers was scheduled to elect Faust, a noted...

Harvard University named historian Drew Gilpin Faust as its first female president on Sunday, ending a lengthy and secretive search to find a successor to Lawrence Summers and his tumultuous five-year tenure.The seven-member Harvard Corporation elected Faust, a noted scholar of the American South and...