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Readers comment on charter schools, final clubs, the doubly disadvantaged, veterans’ memories

Bricks and Mortar

President Faust on Harvard’s changing campus

Do-Overs

When it pays to rethink a policy

November-December 2016

Class picture: inside the pilot year of the Harvard Teacher Fellows

Harvard gets serious about training its graduates to teach in the classroom.

by Sophia Nguyen

Global Health at Home offers innovative techniques to improve U.S. medical care

Harvesting innovations from around the world to improve American medical care

by Howard Hiatt , Charles Kenney , Mark Rosenberg

Death penalty critiqued by Carol and Jordan Steiker

Sibling scholars Carol Steiker and Jordan Steiker seek to change how America thinks about capital punishment.

by Lincoln Caplan

RIGHT NOW Harvard research and ideas

What leads executives to break the law?

Business leaders explain how they went astray.

Center for Health and Happiness established at Harvard

Research aims to discover whether happiness improves physical health.

Andrew Myers develops modular antibiotic manufacture

New methods for manufacturing antibiotics aim to replenish a dwindling drug pipeline.

John Harvard's Journal University news

Harvard Business School Sculptures

At Harvard Business School, contemporary art moves outdoors.

Harvard Endowment Declines $1.9 Billion

Investment losses and distributions for the budget reduce the assets by $1.9 billion.

Harvard Capital Campaign at $7 Billion

The capital campaign proceeds.

Meet Matthew Wittmann, the new curator of The Harvard Theatre Collection

Cultural historian Matthew Wittmann makes a home at Harvard's performing-arts library.

Headlines from Harvard history

From the pages of the Harvard Alumni Bulletin and Harvard Magazine

MOOCs in the Classroom, and for Degrees

MOOC technology in classroom use, for degrees, and more

John Adams as a Harvard student, by Richard Alan Ryerson

What he learned and what he made of it

Harvard Magazine mourns Laura Levis

The untimely death of a former colleague

Harvard Medical Dean, Humanities Honorands, and More

Medical School dean, humanities and sciences honorands, and an app for thriving at Harvard

A Harvard undergraduate reflects on a summer spent writing

Learning to negotiate the backyard and the divine

Harvard Football Early Season Successes

A successful beginning of the football season

Kathy Delaney-Smith, Harvard women's basketball coach, profiled

Basketball coach Kathy Delaney-Smith lives up to, and inspires, with her motto.

Lavietes Pavilion's New Look

Upgrading a venerable basketball arena

Montage Books, creative arts, performance, and more

Animator Tim Reckart and the art of stop-motion acting

The director of Head Over Heels and The Star, on animation's different dimensions

Open Book: Bruegel’s Crowd Paintings

Crowd painting that attracts crowds.

Profile of poet Jean Valentine

Poet Jean Valentine on literary companionship

Recent books with Harvard Connections

Recent books with Harvard connections

Fusion fantasy: a profile of translator and fiction writer Ken Liu

Ken Liu’s hybrid fiction crosses oceans and galaxies.

James Kloppenberg's masterwork on democracy reviewed

Reviewing a masterwork on the past, and future, of democracy

Chapter and verse quotation-citation correspondence site

Correspondence on not-so-famous lost words

Harvard SquaredWhat to do in Boston, Cambridge, and beyond

The New Bedford Whaling Museum's Moby-Dick marathon

Herman Melville’s epic is “brought to life” in New Bedford, Massachusetts.

Crafts, food, and music at Holly Hill Farm’s winter fair

Holly Hill Farm’s winter fair in Cohasset, Massachusetts

Winter hiking in the Blue Hills Reservation

Appalachian Mountain Club’s winter hiking in the Blue Hills

Steampunk art at the Fuller Craft Museum

Brockton’s Fuller Craft Museum offers Steampunk art that celebrates the city’s shoe-manufacturing legacy.

Almuni Harvardians far and wide

World Music 2.0

In Uproot, Jace Clayton ’97 explores technological trends in music around the globe.

Electing Overseers

Plans to overhaul the Board of Overseers’ election procedures 

Hiram S. Hunn Awards

Seven alumni are honored for volunteer College admissions work.

McNamara on campus, the “Cambridge conceit,” and Bob Dylan

McNamara on campus, the “Cambridge conceit,” and a lyric puzzle

Political pins for women

A century of mini political mileposts

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