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The Cost of Political Violence

A Harvard discussion on increasing threats and how to stop them

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Former Women’s Hockey Coach Sues Harvard

Katey Stone alleges gender bias in handling of abuse allegations that led to her retirement.

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Remembering Helen Keller and Anne Sullivan

On a Radcliffe-Harvard memorial to remarkable figures

Students & Alumni |

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Harvard Overhauls Disciplinary Procedures

To cope with violations of University statement on rights and responsibilities

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Harvard Confers 11 Undergraduate Degrees

Protestors now found in “good standing.”

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University People | July-August 2024

Harvard Fencers at the 2024 Paris Olympics

Eight Olympics-bound Harvard fencers

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Immigrant Workers— America’s Engine?

Harvard economist Jason Furman on immigration and the U.S. economy.

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Montage
July-August 2024

Part of the Ensemble

Broadway music director Madeline Benson on art and collaboration

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University People
July-August 2024

The Missing Middle

How overheated political attention warps campus life

Herbert C. Kelman and Everett I. Mendelsohn

The College Pump
July-August 2024

Peacemakers

Two scholars’ extracurricular efforts in the Middle East

David Gruber on the North Shore of Massachusetts

Features
July-August 2024

Decoding the Deep

Project CETI’s pioneering effort to unlock the language of sperm whales

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2U, Once a Giant in Online Education, Files for Chapter 11 Bankruptcy

The Wall Street Journal | 7.25.2024

Read more on this topic in Harvard Magazine's article: edX Exit

At Harvard: volumes large and small, the aesthetic life of plants, volcanic eruptions

The Boston Globe | 7.22.2024

Read more on this topic in Harvard Magazine's article: “Edifying and Beautiful”

The $12,000 Harvard Class Celebrities Are Fighting to Get Into

Bloomberg | 7.22.2024

Read more on this topic in Harvard Magazine's article: Taking Stock of Celebrity and The Way of The Blockbuster

Former Harvard women’s hockey coach Katey Stone sues the university for discrimination

The Boston Globe | 7.23.2024

Read more on this topic in Harvard Magazine's article: Former Women’s Hockey Coach Sues Harvard

Prominent Harvard scholar criticized by conservative lawmakers is leaving for Princeton

The Boston Globe | 7.22.2024

Read more on this topic in Harvard Magazine's article: Writing Crime into Race

A special day of remembrance at military salute at Patton Homestead

The Boston Globe | 7.21.2024

Read more on this topic in Harvard Magazine's article: For the Love of Horses

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Harvard in the headlines

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2U, Once a Giant in Online Education, Files for Chapter 11 Bankruptcy

The Wall Street Journal | 7.25.2024

Read more on this topic in Harvard Magazine's article: edX Exit

At Harvard: volumes large and small, the aesthetic life of plants, volcanic eruptions

The Boston Globe | 7.22.2024

Read more on this topic in Harvard Magazine's article: “Edifying and Beautiful”

The $12,000 Harvard Class Celebrities Are Fighting to Get Into

Bloomberg | 7.22.2024

Read more on this topic in Harvard Magazine's article: Taking Stock of Celebrity and The Way of The Blockbuster

Former Harvard women’s hockey coach Katey Stone sues the university for discrimination

The Boston Globe | 7.23.2024

Read more on this topic in Harvard Magazine's article: Former Women’s Hockey Coach Sues Harvard

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Harvard in the headlines

Harvard Magazine sorts through news and commentary in other media and shares diverse views with you. Learn more.

2U, Once a Giant in Online Education, Files for Chapter 11 Bankruptcy

The Wall Street Journal | 7.25.2024

Read more on this topic in Harvard Magazine's article: edX Exit

At Harvard: volumes large and small, the aesthetic life of plants, volcanic eruptions

The Boston Globe | 7.22.2024

Read more on this topic in Harvard Magazine's article: “Edifying and Beautiful”

The $12,000 Harvard Class Celebrities Are Fighting to Get Into

Bloomberg | 7.22.2024

Read more on this topic in Harvard Magazine's article: Taking Stock of Celebrity and The Way of The Blockbuster

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From our archives

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Features
July-August 2022

Investing vs. Harvesting

Why (and how) to help undergraduates make the most of their extracurriculars

Mariana Quinn

John Harvard's Journal
July-August 2022

Tuning Pianos with Mariana Quinn

A former geologist follows her piano-tuner father’s footsteps.

Photograph of surgical procedure

Features
May-June 2020

The World’s Costliest Health Care

Administrative costs, greed, overutilization—can these drivers of U.S. medical costs be curbed?

Alexander Rehding

John Harvard's Journal
July-August 2019

Alexander Rehding

The Peabody professor of music, in brief

Jack Szostak, in his lab at Massachusetts General Hospital, holds a model of a nucleic acid.

Features
July-August 2019

How Life Began

Jack Szostak’s pursuit of the biggest questions on Earth

Harvard Squared
July-August 2022

Seafaring America

Visiting Mystic, Connecticut

Ursula Bailey working in a Harvard geology laboratory, 1945

Features
July-August 2023

Ursula B. Marvin

Brief life of a pioneering planetary geologist: 1921-2018

Poster for Dos farkishefte shnayderl (the bewitched little tailor) in Paris, c. 1935

Treasure
July-August 2023

Charades with Chutzpah

Harvard’s Yiddish Theater Collection