Letters
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Readers comment on training teachers, global health, climate change, and more
On Games and Goodwill
President Faust on Harvard athletes’ international outreach
Heresy
Tuition income—and what the College can and ought to charge
Honoring Our Contributors
Celebrating distinguished authors and artists
January-February 2017
Features
Building Toward a Kidney
3-D-printing pioneer Jennifer Lewis aims to fabricate replacement organs.
In Flight
A Nieman Fellow documents the perilous passage of refugees fleeing war to seek safety in Europe.
Williamina Fleming
Brief life of a spectrographic pioneer: 1857-1911
“Feelings Ought to Be Investigated”
Deidre Lynch on the cult of Jane Austen and the complexities of loving literature
Personal Information in the Digital Age
Assaults on privacy and security in America threaten democracy itself.
RIGHT NOW Harvard research and ideas
What Drives Successful Crowdsourcing?
Harvard’s Crowd Innovation Lab studies what motivates crowds to solve problems.
Tax Collection and Civil Society
Paying Pakistani tax collectors for better performance to increase tax revenue
Harnessing Evolution
David R. Liu has harnessed evolution to lab experiments.
John Harvard's Journal University news
Bioentrepreneurship
Harvard's three-legged encouragement of entrepreneurship
The Best of Times…
The annual financial report celebrates current strengths, but cautions about a coming revenue squeeze.
Here Come the Quants!
The swift growth in undergraduate quantitative-science concentrators
Heather Henriksen
Harvard’s chief sustainability officer on scaling up green solutions while scaling back its environmental footprint
Yesterday's News
From the pages of the Harvard Alumni Bulletin and Harvard Magazine
Workers and Wages
A strike, negotiations, and a vote on wages, benefits, and union recognition
Gender Agenda
The College struggles with single-gender final clubs—and sexist behavior by sports teams.
Getting Greener
A 30 percent reduction in greenhouse-gas emissions is achieved; a 2050 goal appears more challenging.
Brevia
Nobel honorands, a new University Professor, the Honor Code, and more
Connecting Body and Soul
A Harvard initiative studies how spirituality affects patients’ experience at the end of life
Crimson on Capitol Hill: 115th
Harvard’s congressional contingent gains five new members.
Mise en Scène
Moving off campus, and growing up
Bitter Ending
After living on the edge, the football team confronts a shocking season-ending upset.
Montage Books, creative arts, performance and more
The Lawyer Librettist
In the “final phase” of her life, Cerise Lim Jacobs builds herself an oeuvre.
Bare-Knuckle Politics
Contentious American democracy—in a new case-method history book
The Art of Protest
“It doesn’t even make sense to me that art and protest would be separate.”
Off the Shelf
Recent books with Harvard connections
The Happy Misanthrope
A playwright making those overlooked by history into lore
A Conservative Counterrevolution
The anti-democratic origins of the Constitution
Chapter & Verse
Correspondence on not-so-famous lost words
Harvard Squared What to do in Boston, Cambridge and beyond
Celebrating Cinema
Hidden gem: the Harvard Film Archive
Music and Meditation
Night Song soothes the soul at First Church in Cambridge.
Providence, R.I.
Car-free fun in downtown Providence
The “Scandalous Mansion”
Preserving Boston’s unique Ayer Mansion
New in Town?
A sampling of Cambridge’s newest restaurants
Almuni Harvardians far and wide
Reports from the “New America”
Latino-American journalist Julio Ricardo Varela
A Women's Weekend
Harvard’s first University-wide Women’s Weekend
