Letters
The Tiger Roars
Harvard's opportunity for strategic planning
Cambridge 02138
Readers respond to articles on eugenics, the Overseers’ election, the Law School shield, and more.
Learning to Change the World
President Faust writes about the Harvard Teacher Fellows
May-June 2016
Features
Who Owns the Robots Rules the World
Most people’s jobs are at risk of becoming robotized, argues labor economist Richard Freeman.
The Egalitarian
Danielle Allen’s mission to return equality to the heart of American democracy
Champ Lyons
Brief life of an innovative surgeon: 1907-1965
Editing an End to Malaria?
A technique for pushing genetic alterations through entire species of plants and animals may herald a future in which humans manage ecosystems through molecular biology.
RIGHT NOW Harvard research and ideas
Reassessing the Gender Wage Gap
Economist Claudia Goldin investigates what causes the gender wage gap, and what doesn't.
Are All Calories Equal?
Avoid refined sugars and processed carbohydrates, says endocrinologist David Ludwig.
A Cancer Begins
Seeing when cancer begins helps Leonard Zon track down factors triggering the disease.
John Harvard's Journal University news
Theater, Dance, and Media's "Next Act"
A concentration “400 years in the making,” and two semesters old
Ethan Lasser
A Harvard Art Museums curator on how artworks talk to one another, and to us
CS50’s Expanding Global Reach
Harvard’s popular CS50 is being adapted for a new AP course.
University People
A new dean for public health, a new director for the art museums, and more
Yesterday's News
From the pages of the Harvard Alumni Bulletin and Harvard Magazine
Larry Summers Reflects
On matters economic, educational, and political
Campus Campaign
Free Harvard/Fair Harvard and the Coalition for a Diverse Harvard square off in the Board of Overseers election.
Brevia
A Supreme Court nominee, Spielberg at Commencement, the class of 2020, and more
News Briefs
Action against sexual assault, the Law School drops its shield, “Faculty Deans” now lead the Houses, and more
"I Do Not Abide"
The Undergraduate looks at 1969 and Reclaim HLS
Postseason, Interrupted
The men’s basketball streak comes to an end—and the women look ahead.
Montage Books, creative arts, performance and more
"Art Is a Dark Mirror"
Ellen Harvey's installations offer "complicated gifts" to the viewer.
Presidents, Congress, and Foreign Policy
Political scientists demystify unseen institutional tensions.
Hopkinson Smith, Beyond the Instrument
A lutenist pursues what he calls his “lifelong task.”
Chapter & Verse
Correspondence on not-so-famous lost words
Seeing Spring
Artist Anna Agoston grows into her medium with her photographic studies of plants.
How America Grew
Definitive economic history—and a debatable, despairing forecast
Off the Shelf
Fireflies, dating and love, growing old, and other recent books with Harvard connections
Harvard Squared What to do in Boston, Cambridge and beyond
Preserving a Muse
Nathaniel Hawthorne's Salem muse was preserved by philanthropist Caroline Emmerton.
The Roxbury International Film Festival
Independent films by and about people of color
River Runs
Public boat tours with The Gundalow Company, in Portsmouth, N.H.
Art and Nature in Andover
A day trip to Andover: Addison Gallery of American Art, gardens, and hikes
The Week’s Events
Harvard University’s Commencement week events
Kendall Square Eats
Restaurants proliferate in Cambridge’s “hi-tech” Kendall Square neighborhood.
Almuni Harvardians far and wide
Potholes, Pensions, and Politics
Houston’s new mayor, HLS alumnus Sylvester Turner, promises a “transformative” tenure.
Overseer and HAA Director Candidates
Candidates for Harvard Overseers and HAA elected directors
Labor of Love
Fred Crafts ’50 combines memoir and appreciation of Cape Cod’s natural wonders in Remembering Monomoy.
Sharing Stories
Photographer Leslie Tuttle ’72 focuses on women’s work.
The SIGnboard: Reunion Week
Shared Interest Group gatherings