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Harvard's Nobel Prize Incubator

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Harvard Alumnus Wins Chemistry Nobel

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American Jewish Life After October 7

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Arts and Sciences: Aspirations and Anxieties

Harvard faculty’s first meeting focuses on speech, governance, AI, and other concerns.

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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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Football: Harvard 28-New Hampshire 23

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Radcliffe Celebrates 25

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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

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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

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September-October 2022

“A Moral Obligation”

Charles Berlin and 60 years of collecting for Harvard Library

Illustration imagining the evolution of computer science at Harvard in a playful way

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September-October 2020

A Science Is Born

The “yeasty” times” when computer research grew at Harvard

Illustration of a man looking through a pair of binoculars with three, not two, objective lenses

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May-June 2021

Is There Better Than Better?

Ellen Langer rejects binary thinking, embracing instead a “third way.”

Sam Sifton in his Brooklyn kitchen

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September-October 2021

Improvised Cuisine

The joys of cooking with The New York Times's Sam Sifton 

Fanciful illustration of plastic-eating microbes

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September-October 2023

Polishing off Plastic Pollution?

Engineering microbes to metabolize plastic waste

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September-October 2019

Are Super Responders Special?

Do patients who defeat cancer hold biological secrets?

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January-February 2023

Fernando Zóbel-Montojo

Brief life of an abstract painter: 1924-1984

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

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November-December 2023

You Are What (Your Microbes) Eat

Diet, cooking, and the human microbiome