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“Out of the Ashes”

A Harvard series explores South Korean cinema in the years following the Korean War. 

Arts & Culture | 11.21.2023

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Football: Yale 23-Harvard 18

A deflating ending fashions a three-way title tie.

Sports & Athletics | 11.19.2023

Rendering of the Center for Creativity and Performance with a new residential building rising behind it.

Allston Home for A.R.T. Approved

A 70,000 square-foot theater and teaching center, plus housing for Harvard affiliates

The Changing Campus | 11.17.2023

Academic Freedom—for All

Amid the Israel-Hamas war, some Harvard faculty members raise concerns about freedom of expression. 

University News | 11.16.2023

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Charles Brickley, 1914

Features | November-December 2023

Harvard’s G.O.A.T.

Remembering Charlie Brickley at the Crimson’s football sesquicentennial

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Illustration for Harvard Lampoon cover showing a Harvard-Yale football game rendered in the style of the famous Bayeux Tapestry

The College Pump | November-December 2023

Football: The Tapestry

David C.K. McClelland’s famous Lampoon cover

Treasure | November-December 2023

Pigskin Programs

The art of Harvard football

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Illustration of a box containing a laid-off fossil fuel worker's office belongings

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.

Apollonia Poilâne standing in front of rows of fresh-baked loaves at her family's flagship bakery

University People
November-December 2023

Her Bread and Butter

A third-generation French baker on legacy loaves and the "magic" of baking

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John Harvard's Journal
November-December 2023

AI in the Academy

Generative AI can enhance teaching and learning but augurs a shift to oral forms of student assessment.

Treasure
November-December 2023

Pigskin Programs

The art of Harvard football

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Former Coal Towns Get Money for Clean-Energy Factories

The New York Times | 11.27.2023

Read more on this topic in Harvard Magazine's article: Preparing for the Energy Transition

The Culture of Protest That Got the Revolution Going in France

The New York Times | 11.4.2023

Read more on this topic in Harvard Magazine's article: How Revolutions Happen

Deaths From Coal Pollution Have Dropped, but Emissions May Be Twice as Deadly

The New York Times | 11.23.2023

Read more on this topic in Harvard Magazine's article: Air Pollution’s Systemic Effects

The conflagration at Harvard over the Israel-Hamas war was years in the making

The Boston Globe | 11.22.2023

Read more on this topic in Harvard Magazine's article: Academic Freedom—for All

Why We’re Still Breathing Dirty Indoor Air

The New York Times | 11.20.2023

Read more on this topic in Harvard Magazine's article: When Wildfires Make Your Air Unhealthy

Meet the Globe’s all-time All-Scholastic football team

The Boston Globe | 11.21.2023

Read more on this topic in Harvard Magazine's article: Harvard’s G.O.A.T.

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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.

Former Coal Towns Get Money for Clean-Energy Factories

The New York Times | 11.27.2023

Read more on this topic in Harvard Magazine's article: Preparing for the Energy Transition

The Culture of Protest That Got the Revolution Going in France

The New York Times | 11.4.2023

Read more on this topic in Harvard Magazine's article: How Revolutions Happen

Deaths From Coal Pollution Have Dropped, but Emissions May Be Twice as Deadly

The New York Times | 11.23.2023

Read more on this topic in Harvard Magazine's article: Air Pollution’s Systemic Effects

The conflagration at Harvard over the Israel-Hamas war was years in the making

The Boston Globe | 11.22.2023

Read more on this topic in Harvard Magazine's article: Academic Freedom—for All

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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.

Former Coal Towns Get Money for Clean-Energy Factories

The New York Times | 11.27.2023

Read more on this topic in Harvard Magazine's article: Preparing for the Energy Transition

The Culture of Protest That Got the Revolution Going in France

The New York Times | 11.4.2023

Read more on this topic in Harvard Magazine's article: How Revolutions Happen

Deaths From Coal Pollution Have Dropped, but Emissions May Be Twice as Deadly

The New York Times | 11.23.2023

Read more on this topic in Harvard Magazine's article: Air Pollution’s Systemic Effects

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An illustration of the crumpled front end of a car that has been in an accident with mountains that are the result of crumpling of Earth's crust, rising in the background

Right Now
July-August 2021

How Paper Crumples

The research provides insight into the way materials react to repeated strain.

Emily Broad Leib in front of produce

Features
November-December 2021

The Food Waste Problem

Emily Broad Leib combats wasted food worldwide.

Pierre Dupont standing in pediatric surgical research lab at Boston Children's Hospital

Features
May-June 2022

The Medical-Robotics Revolution

Engineering advances in surgery, mobility, and patient care

A rendering of MASS Design’s proposal to reclaim the waterfront and renew Poughkeepsie’s center

Features
May-June 2023

Building a Better World

MASS Design’s healing architecture

Illustration of book like a sinking ship, emblematic of problems in the humanities

Features
January-February 2023

Humanists All

What is lost in the precipitous decline of the arts and humanities

Harvard Business School campus at its unveiling in 1927

Features
March-April 2023

A Higher Degree of Responsibility

On the history and potential of values-driven enterprises

Photograph of giant tube worms living near a hydrothermal vent in the Gulf of California

Features
May-June 2023

Plumbing the Deep Sea

Peter Girguis probes life on the ocean floor.

Gram Parsons stands in front of a bus in Harvard Square

Features
July-August 2023

Sound as Ever

Gram Parsons and Harvard’s hand in country rock