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Harvard Responds to Protests

Smaller campus actions draw administrative and online responses.

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Harvard Announces Hiring Freeze

Amid funding uncertainties, the University prepares for austerity

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Roche to Be Tenant in Allston

First lease for Harvard’s commercial enterprise zone

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Charlie Greene pitches his startup, a tech-driven family memory book, to Shark Tank

A Harvard Startup on Shark Tank

How a Business School graduate uses AI to preserve family history

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Harvard Augments Financial Aid—and Girds for Austerity

Dean Hopi Hoekstra details Faculty of Arts and Sciences’ priorities.

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How Measles Destroys Immune Memories

Michael Mina explains “immune amnesia” and the lasting impact of infection.

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It’s Academic (and Other Harvard Concerns)

The Faculty of Arts and Sciences focuses on class attendance, grades—and wider worries about “uncomfortable” threats to academia.

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March-April 2025

Making Schools Work

Tom Kane deploys data to help improve education.

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Teen Grind Culture

Teens need better strategies to cope with lives lived partly online.

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AI Anxiety

The Undergraduate on the uneasy collision of technology and writing

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

Keeping With Kennedy’s Advice, Measles Patients Turn to Unproven Treatments

The New York Times | 3.15.2025

Read more on this topic in Harvard Magazine's article: How Measles Destroys Immune Memories

Harvard Is Going Tuition-Free for Families Making Up to $200,000

The Wall Street Journal | 3.17.2025

Read more on this topic in Harvard Magazine's article: Harvard Augments Financial Aid—and Girds for Austerity

Harvard women’s basketball headed south as a 10 seed for NCAA Tournament meeting with Michigan State

The Boston Globe | 3.16.2025

Read more on this topic in Harvard Magazine's article: “A Game of Inches”

Harvard women’s basketball punches ticket to NCAA Tournament by holding off Columbia for Ivy League title

The Boston Globe | 3.15.2025

Read more on this topic in Harvard Magazine's article: “A Game of Inches”

Edvard Munch and the painting lost at sea, at Harvard Art Museums

The Boston Globe | 3.13.2025

Read more on this topic in Harvard Magazine's article: A Gift of Munch Artworks

Measles Can Damage the Immune System for Years

The New York Times | 3.14.2025

Read more on this topic in Harvard Magazine's article: How Measles Destroys Immune Memories

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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.

Keeping With Kennedy’s Advice, Measles Patients Turn to Unproven Treatments

The New York Times | 3.15.2025

Read more on this topic in Harvard Magazine's article: How Measles Destroys Immune Memories

Harvard Is Going Tuition-Free for Families Making Up to $200,000

The Wall Street Journal | 3.17.2025

Read more on this topic in Harvard Magazine's article: Harvard Augments Financial Aid—and Girds for Austerity

Harvard women’s basketball headed south as a 10 seed for NCAA Tournament meeting with Michigan State

The Boston Globe | 3.16.2025

Read more on this topic in Harvard Magazine's article: “A Game of Inches”

Harvard women’s basketball punches ticket to NCAA Tournament by holding off Columbia for Ivy League title

The Boston Globe | 3.15.2025

Read more on this topic in Harvard Magazine's article: “A Game of Inches”

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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.

Keeping With Kennedy’s Advice, Measles Patients Turn to Unproven Treatments

The New York Times | 3.15.2025

Read more on this topic in Harvard Magazine's article: How Measles Destroys Immune Memories

Harvard Is Going Tuition-Free for Families Making Up to $200,000

The Wall Street Journal | 3.17.2025

Read more on this topic in Harvard Magazine's article: Harvard Augments Financial Aid—and Girds for Austerity

Harvard women’s basketball headed south as a 10 seed for NCAA Tournament meeting with Michigan State

The Boston Globe | 3.16.2025

Read more on this topic in Harvard Magazine's article: “A Game of Inches”

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Features
March-April 2023

Inner Senses

Nicholas Bellono probes the biological basis of animal adaptations and behaviors.

Scott Edwards photographed in the ornithology collection

Features
March-April 2024

How Birds Lost Flight

Scott Edwards discovers evolution’s master switches.

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Right Now
March-April 2022

Social Media Use and Adult Depression

A survey reveals suprising links between social media use and depression in adults.

Harvard Squared
March-April 2022

A Verdant Cultural Retreat

Boston’s Forest Hills Cemetery is a welcome respite from the world.

An elderly couple with infirmities stand on a sidewalk with their moving boxes

Right Now
March-April 2023

The Senior Housing Shortfall

As the ranks of the elderly swell, there are too few housing options for seniors who want to “age in place.”

Photograph of Winthrop Bell 1910

Features
March-April 2024

Winthrop Bell: Harvard Philosopher, MI6 Spy, and Early Forecaster of the Holocaust

Brief life of a philosopher and spy: 1884-1965

An older couple standing in a large room filled with pianos

Montage
March-April 2023

Attuned to Pianos

An instrument restorer’s beautiful obsession

Alejandro Montagna standing in front of a small airplane wearing a wingsuit

University People
March-April 2023

Flying Squirrel

Wingsuit skydiver Alejandro Montagna on minimizing risk—at 150 mph