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July 15, 2026 X-Mode was not an outlier. The FTC has since moved against Gravy Analytics, which drew virtual boundaries around buildings to build and sell lists of people who attended events related to medical conditions, and Mobilewalla, which harvested location data from online advertising auctions and sold data tracking people to health clinics.

Susan M. Davies, who served as the Steven and Maureen Klinsky Visiting Professor of Practice for Leadership and Progress at Harvard Law School during the past academic year, has been named a professor of practice at Harvard Law School, effective July 1. Davies brings her decades of experience in private practice and at the highest levels of government, including at the U.S. Department of Justice and as Deputy White House Counsel to President Barack Obama ’91.

Researchers create knit textiles for switches, step counting Key Takeaways Harvard engineers used standard industrial weft knitting to create dense fabrics that snap between multiple stable 3D shapes, turning ordinary textiles into mechanical metamaterials. By embedding conductive yarns, they showed that multistable fabrics can function as soft, stretchable switches or sensors. Knitting has come a long way from sweaters and blankets. Researchers at the Harvard John A.

Please join us to learn about the Women and Public Policy Program and our work that creates and disseminates evidence-based strategies to advance women and promote gender equity. We will discuss our Oval Office program, seminar series, fellowship stipends, and other student opportunities. WAPPP's affiliated faculty members and research fellows will also share their research related to gender equity. This event is open to the Harvard community. Light lunch will be provided.

When you suspect a student has relied too heavily on AI, knowing how to respond matters. Learn four signs of AI misuse and a practical framework for having productive conversations that strengthen students' thinking.

Cambridge, MA (July 13, 2026) —The Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian was strongly represented in the newly announced Cycle 1 General Investigator Program from the Roman Science Support Center with four scientists leading and three co-leading investigations. “I would like to congratulate every CfA astronomer whose programs were accepted as a Principal Investigator or Co-Investigator,” said CfA Director Lisa Kewley.

By Corinne Ball, Dan T. Moss, David S. Torborg, and Isel M. Perez (Jones Day) Corinne Ball, Dan T. Moss, David S. Torborg, and Isel M. Perez (Jones Day) Chapter 15 of the Bankruptcy Code reached its 20th year of enactment in October 2025. A legislative framework premised on international comity, it has proven to be an invaluable tool for coordinating cross-border bankruptcy and insolvency cases and providing assistance to foreign bankruptcy courts and their functionaries.

It’s not too late to join a clinic for the Fall semester! Please reach out to clinical@law.harvard.edu if you have any questions about these clinic opportunities, clinical credits, or anything else. Students may enroll in the clinics listed below through the Add/Drop page in Helios. You can view more about the clinical curriculum offered in Academic Year 26-27AY here.

July 14, 2026 The Trump administration’s goal of “Making America Healthy Again” is beginning to look more like “Making Americans Smokers Again.” Despite a landmark government survey released in May by the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) that stated that for the first time, cigarette smoking among U.S. adults dropped to an all-time low of 9 percent in 2025 — the first time the smoking rate hit single digits — the Trump administration is actively undermining the decades of bipartisan efforts...

In America today, explains Harvard Professor Jacqueline Bhabha, there are millions of children whose parents have a complicated immigration status—who may have lived and worked in the United States for decades while overstaying a visa, for instance. The government’s current approach to these families, Bhabha argues, is irresponsible. “These are American children who can’t sleep at night because they’re so worried their parents will be picked up,” she says.