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That Championship Season

Harvard's 1984 National Collegiate Rugby Championship team celebrates its 40th anniversary

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How Physics Can Be Used to Manipulate a Coin Toss

How a coin toss can be uniquely rigged – and can demonstrate probability’s role in reducing uncertainty.

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Harvard Alumnus Wins Chemistry Nobel

David Baker ’84 invents new proteins not found in nature.

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American Jewish Life After October 7

Professors Derek Penslar and Noah Feldman reflect on a difficult year

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Football: Harvard 38-Cornell 20

A torrent of touchdowns in the second quarter keys the first Ivy win

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Features | November-December 2024

The End of the Ivy League?

College sports are changing. Will Harvard athletics?

Harvard University Professor Gary Ruvkun is jointly awarded the Nobel Prize in Medicine or Physiology. Victoria Ruvkun (from left) with dog Barnaby, Gary Ruvkun, and Natasha Staller are pictured the morning of the announcement at their home in Newton.

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Gary Ruvkun Shares Nobel Prize in Medicine

Harvard Medical School genetics professor honored  

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Features
November-December 2024

Home Unaffordable Home

America’s housing problem—and what to do about it

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Right Now
November-December 2024

How the Mind Assigns Meaning to Words

New research on how the brain uses sounds to form words and create meaning.

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Montage
November-December 2024

Maps of the World

The surreal, artistic cartography of Darren Sears

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Harvard Squared
November-December 2024

The Boston Camerata Turns 70

Celebrating early music

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Nobel Prize in Chemistry Goes to 3 Scientists for Predicting and Creating Proteins

The New York Times | 10.9.2024

Read more on this topic in Harvard Magazine's article: Harvard Alumnus Wins Chemistry Nobel

Discovery in Tiny Worm Leads to Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for 2 Scientists

The New York Times | 10.9.2024

Read more on this topic in Harvard Magazine's article: Gary Ruvkun Shares Nobel Prize in Medicine

Trump’s Plan Boosts Budget Deficits by $7.5 Trillion, Double Harris’s Proposal

The Wall Street Journal | 10.7.2024

Read more on this topic in Harvard Magazine's article: The Federal Fisc and The Off-Kilter Economy

‘Jarring’: New England students lament a plunge in diversity at campuses since affirmative action ruling

The Boston Globe | 10.8.2024

Read more on this topic in Harvard Magazine's article: Admissions after Affirmative Action

Look, don’t touch? Not at Ashburnham’s Frederick Historical Piano Collection.

The Boston Globe | 10.3.2024

Read more on this topic in Harvard Magazine's article: Attuned to Pianos

October is Dyslexia Awareness Month. Here’s what it’s like to be the parent of a dyslexic student in Massachusetts.

The Boston Globe | 10.4.2024

Read more on this topic in Harvard Magazine's article: A Right Way to Read?

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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.

Nobel Prize in Chemistry Goes to 3 Scientists for Predicting and Creating Proteins

The New York Times | 10.9.2024

Read more on this topic in Harvard Magazine's article: Harvard Alumnus Wins Chemistry Nobel

Discovery in Tiny Worm Leads to Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for 2 Scientists

The New York Times | 10.9.2024

Read more on this topic in Harvard Magazine's article: Gary Ruvkun Shares Nobel Prize in Medicine

Trump’s Plan Boosts Budget Deficits by $7.5 Trillion, Double Harris’s Proposal

The Wall Street Journal | 10.7.2024

Read more on this topic in Harvard Magazine's article: The Federal Fisc and The Off-Kilter Economy

‘Jarring’: New England students lament a plunge in diversity at campuses since affirmative action ruling

The Boston Globe | 10.8.2024

Read more on this topic in Harvard Magazine's article: Admissions after Affirmative Action

Read more articles

Harvard in the headlines

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

Nobel Prize in Chemistry Goes to 3 Scientists for Predicting and Creating Proteins

The New York Times | 10.9.2024

Read more on this topic in Harvard Magazine's article: Harvard Alumnus Wins Chemistry Nobel

Discovery in Tiny Worm Leads to Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for 2 Scientists

The New York Times | 10.9.2024

Read more on this topic in Harvard Magazine's article: Gary Ruvkun Shares Nobel Prize in Medicine

Trump’s Plan Boosts Budget Deficits by $7.5 Trillion, Double Harris’s Proposal

The Wall Street Journal | 10.7.2024

Read more on this topic in Harvard Magazine's article: The Federal Fisc and The Off-Kilter Economy

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An illustration of foods included in the portfolio diet.

Right Now
May-June 2024

Diversifying Diet

A little-known diet improves cardiovascular health through several distinct mechanisms. 

Portrait of Benjamin Smith Lyman circa 1909

Features
May-June 2024

Benjamin Smith Lyman

Brief life of the vegetarian trailblazer, 1835-1920

Henry Lee Higginson

The College Pump
November-December 2022

Ahead of His Time

The inclusive Henry Lee Higginson, and Robert Caro’s productive fellowship

wintry scene of downtown Vermont's pedestrian shopping zone

Harvard Squared
November-December 2022

Leaning into Winter

Exploring Burlington, Vermont

A collection of abstract geometric paintings hang above a white couch

Montage
November-December 2022

Straight Lines and Odd Angles

Painter Judith Seligson’s creative juxtapositions

Treasure
November-December 2023

Pigskin Programs

The art of Harvard football

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Right Now
November-December 2023

Preparing for the Energy Transition

Expect massive job losses in industries associated with fossil fuels. The time to get ready is now.

Illustration of an apple being pushed from a platform into a sea of colorful microbes

Features
November-December 2023

You Are What (Your Microbes) Eat

Diet, cooking, and the human microbiome