February 2026

Features

Students participating in DeisHacks

February 4, 2026

The annual social justice hackathon partnered more than 140 student innovators with eight local nonprofits.

Hannah Yevick working in a lab.

February 3, 2026

The placenta functions as multiple organs at once, driven in part by a single massive cell — about the size of a parking space by the end of pregnancy. Professor Hannah Yevick says this enormous cell is breaking open our understanding of just what a cell is.

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In the News

February 4, 2026
Forbes

President Arthur Levine interviewed

February 2, 2026
Associated Press

Janet Krasner Aronson, interim director of the Cohen Center for Modern Jewish Studies, quoted

February 2, 2026
The Hechinger Report

President Arthur Levine interviewed

Of Note

February 4, 2026

Theoretical physicist collaborated with her son for "Rheology."

February 3, 2026

University now part of network of more than 700 schools