A Modest Proposal
Why Harvard and MIT might join forces on climate-change research
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Readers respond to articles on football, sexual assault, the Social Progress Index, divestment, and more.
Wise Restraints
A letter from President Faust about Harvard Law School
Congratulations, Contributors
Honoring two exceptional authors and one artist
January-February 2016
Jacqueline Bhabha critiques the world's response to migration crises
Harvard human-rights expert Jacqueline Bhabha critiques the inadequate response to the world’s migration crises.
Brief life of formidable anthropologist Cora Du Bois, by Susan C. Seymour
Brief life of a formidable anthropologist: 1903-1991
Judge Richard Posner, profiled by Lincoln Caplan
The double life of Richard Posner, America’s most contentious legal reformer
James O’Connell of HMS and Boston Health Care for the Homeless Program
James O’Connell has spent 30 years caring for the homeless.
RIGHT NOW Harvard research and ideas
Harvard's David Parkes on artificial intelligence and economic reasoning
New thinking machines demand a new economic science.
Harvard’s Wyss Institute has developed organs-on-chips to transform drug testing
The Wyss Institute’s organs-on-chips could transform drug testing and personalized medicine.
Comparing the end of the death penalty in France and America
An historian tracks the death penalty’s persistence in America.
John Harvard's Journal University news
Marine life exhibit debuts at Harvard Museum of Natural History
A lively exhibit debuts at the Museum of Natural History.
Harvard’s annual financial report
The University's annual financial report
Harvard Management Company overhauls endowment
Harvard Management Company makes extensive changes to enhance investment performance.
Harvard arts and sciences faculty growth
Constrained growth in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences
MOOCs and teaching programs from Harvard being reviewed
The provost on the prospects for Harvard’s MOOCs, and other developments in teaching and learning
Portrait of Harvard director of jazz bands Yosvany Terry
A well-traveled Afro-Cuban jazz musician lands at Harvard.
Capital campaign update: Harvard Law kicks off
Updates on The Harvard Campaign
Engineering the future of Harvard’s SEAS
SEAS dean Frank Doyle shares insights.
Henry Rosovsky: a tribute from Harvard Magazine
A tribute to Henry Rosovsky from Harvard Magazine
Diversity, affirmative-action adjuration, going global, and General Education
College race debates reach Harvard, admissions adjudication, again, the launch of the Harvard Global Institute, and General Education revisited
Headlines from Harvard history
From the pages of the Harvard Alumni Bulletin and Harvard Magazine
Harvard fall 2015 news briefs
Medical dean stepping down, Rhodes and Marshall scholars, more conservative Winthrop House addition, and more
The Undergraduate deals with “what it means to be a walking disruption”
Learning “what it means to be a walking disruption”
Harvard football 2015 final recap: the run-up and The Game
A fine finish to a nearly flawless football season
Montage Books, creative arts, performance, and more
Carlton Cuse discusses what animates his work
Television’s Carlton Cuse on what animates his work
Chapter and verse quotation-citation correspondence site
Correspondence on not-so-famous lost words
Shaping Richard Henry Dana Jr.
How Richard Henry Dana Jr. came to hate slavery and injustice
Classical music composer Lei Liang gives voice to silenced stories
After “growing up in the archives,” a composer makes forgotten histories heard.
Recent books with Harvard connections
Recent books cover the origins of mambo, American economic growth, cancer, landscape, and more
Tania James’s dueling artistic impulses
A writer balances structure and spontaneity in her latest novel.
Harvard SquaredWhat to do in Boston, Cambridge, and beyond
Tower Hill Botanic Garden offers respite from winter
Tower Hill Botanic Garden’s “Month of Flowers”
The Dance Complex in Cambridge is poised to grow
A long-time Cambridge arts organization is poised to grow.
Fruitlands Museum WinterFest Weekends
Sledding, Nordic skiing, and art at Fruitlands Museum, in Harvard, Massachusetts
Tony Torn stars in "Ubu Sings Ubu" at Harvard’s American Repertory Theater
A new cabaret version of Alfred Jarry’s subversive 1896 Ubu Roi
Cooking classes throughout Greater Boston
Greater Boston’s classes for aspiring and amateur cooks
Almuni Harvardians far and wide
Mapping the Ganges
A decade spent exploring India’s dynamic sacred river
Parachute Specialist
Job counselor Dick Bolles ’50 keeps “chugging away.”
Encouraging Esperanto
Ruth Kevess-Cohen ’78 is boosting the international language online.
Channeling Valentine’s Day—and sustainable oceans—via sexy sea creatures
Channeling Valentine’s Day—and sustainable oceans—via sexy sea creatures
