Letters on DNA drawing, robots, final clubs, reading Greek, and more
Readers respond to articles on robots, final clubs, comparing campuses, and more.
Harvard president Drew Faust on Harvardians’ military service
President Faust writes about Harvardians’ tradition of military service.
How Harvard might discuss liberal-arts education more fruitfully
How Harvard might discuss liberal-arts education more fruitfully
July-August 2016
The Arnold Arboretum’s 10-year plan for plant collecting
Collecting expeditions race the anthropocene extinction to sample wild botanical diversity.
Brief life of mathematician Nathaniel Bowditch
Brief life of a mathematician and businessman: 1773-1839
How Franklin Leonard became screenwriters' most effective “hype man”
Turning the Black List into a business, to modernize Hollywood’s dream machine
Super PACs and their effect on U.S. presidential politics
How super PACs actually shape U.S. presidential politics
RIGHT NOW Harvard research and ideas
Welfare promotes entrepreneurship, says Gareth Olds of Harvard Business School
Welfare promotes entrepreneurship, finds HBS researcher Gareth Olds.
Emotional connections key to successful cross-disciplinary research
A new study finds that the most successful research teams are grounded in a group identity.
Why evolution favors sex
Sex preserves beneficial mutations, and allows harmful ones to be purged.
John Harvard's Journal University news
Harvard’s 365th Commencement
Harvard goes Hollywood for Commencement, with sunny scenery, but sober talk.
Harvard honorary-degree recipients of 2016
The honorands of 2016
Harvard Commencement speakers Spielberg, Faust, more
Commencement oratory from Steven Spielberg, Drew Faust, and others
Harvard Commencement humor
Speakers making funny at the 365th Commencement
Harvard 365th Commencement highlights
A multitalented student, political zingers, a retiring Commencement directors, final-club ribbing, and more
Harvard business engineering schools in Allston
Amid an Allston building boom, the first new academic ties between Harvard Business School and the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences
Harvard’s class scheduling for Allston campus
How to improve class scheduling—now, and when College classes cross the Charles River for the new engineering complex in Allston.
Harvard Portrait: Dustin Tingley
Political scientist Dustin Tingley studies the politics of everyday life.
Currier House chiefs, Harvard College Professors, top teachers, and more
Currier House chiefs, Harvard College Professors, top teachers, and more
Harvard’s endowment examined
Congressional inquiry reveals insights into Harvard's endowment-management costs, financial aid, and other schools' policies.
Headlines from Harvard history
From the pages of the Harvard Alumni Bulletin and Harvard Magazine
Final clubs, conflicts of interest, improving writing, and more
Final-club sanctions, a new Corporation member, medical conflicts of interest, MIT capital campaign, and improving student writing
News briefs: late spring 2016
Slaves at Harvard, an early-childhood education initiative at HGSE, Air Force ROTC returns, climate change, the Extension School, and more
A Harvard undergraduate assesses his unfinished works
Pre-Commencement, the Undergraduate assesses his unfinished works.
Harvard track athletes Ngozi Musa and Gabby Thomas
First-years Ngozi Musa and Gabby Thomas help set the pace for track and field.
Montage Books, creative arts, performance, and more
Elizabeth Claire Walker, from the Los Angeles Ballet to Harvard and back
A ballet career, earned through college and cattle calls
Excerpt from Amy Tuteur's "Push Back: Guilt in the Age of Natural Parenting"
Strong words from a combatant in the childbirth wars
Illustrator Andrea Tsurumi, on making art to "fight the shorthand"
In Andrea Tsurumi's comics and illustrated work, life is observed and shown as absurd.
Recent books with Harvard connections
Recent books with Harvard connections
“Aeneid Book VI,” by Seamus Heaney, reviewed by Richard F. Thomas
A new translation from the Aeneid
Chapter and verse quotation-citation correspondence site
Correspondence on not-so-famous lost words
Harvard SquaredWhat to do in Boston, Cambridge, and beyond
Winslow Farm Animal Sanctuary
Debra White built the Winslow Farm Animal Sanctuary in Norton, Massachusetts.
A South Shore Finnish sauna draws a diverse crowd
The benefits of sweating at a traditional Finnish sauna in Pembroke, Massachusetts
Landscape Architect’s Guide to Boston enhances bicycle tourism
A taste of The Landscape Architect’s Guide to Boston.
The 1853 Homer House in Belmont
A mansion promotes artist Winslow Homer’s roots in Belmont, Massachusetts.
Harvard Square's Parsnip restaurant
Parsnip restaurant is a handsome replacement for Upstairs on the Square.
Almuni Harvardians far and wide
Teach a Man to Fish
How Gloucester’s Russell Sherman got hooked
Harvard Medalists
For “extraordinary service to the University”
Cambridge Scholars
The four winners will begin study in the other Cambridge this fall.
The Senior Alumni
The oldest graduates at Commencement
Centennial Medalists
Honorands whose contributions to society emerged from graduate study
Election Results
Candidates nominated by the Harvard Alumni Association drew the most votes.
Tools for Change
An alumna’s novel approach to helping Kenyan tweens
The Comeback Kid
The post-Harvard hockey tales of Bill Keenan
Blair Kamin organizes a colorful new guide to the "Gates of Harvard Yard"
A nitty-gritty guide by a Nieman Fellow and his team.
