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Measuring an Education
President Drew Faust describes Harvard’s efforts to evaluate how well—and what exactly—its students learn.
Strategically Speaking
Articulating a vision and refining a strategy for Harvard
November-December 2017
Stuart Harris and wilderness medicine at Harvard
Stuart Harris and the austere practice of wilderness physicians
Market forces have made American higher education radically unequal
How market forces have made American higher education radically unequal
Brief life of Guy Davenport, a polymathic stylist
Brief life of a polymathic stylist: 1927-2005
Building RoboBees: How Harvard Engineers Are Revolutionizing Micro-Robotics
The push to build flying, thinking, robot swarms
The Legal Services Corporation tackles the “justice gap”
America’s unfulfilled promise of “equal justice under law”
RIGHT NOW Harvard research and ideas
Brendan Meade studies earthquakes using artificial neural networks
Machine learning may raise the potential for predicting where—and when—an earthquake might strike.
How climate change can change crop nutrition
How global warming can change crop nutrition
Cashing Out For Happiness
Research from HBS shows that by buying themselves out of negative experiences, people gain time for happiness-inducing activities like learning a language, or socializing.
John Harvard's Journal University news
Winthrop House renovated and expanded
Undergraduates return to newly improved digs.
How some colleges help first-generation and low-income students succeed
How some colleges help first-generation and low-income students succeed
Nicco Mele of Harvard’s Shorenstine Center on Media, Politics, and Public Policy
The director of the Shorenstein Center on how the Internet came to mean so much to him.
Public Health’s Past and Future
Michelle Williams, a year into her role as Public Health School dean
Headlines from Harvard’s history
“Vagabonding,” Harvard Student Agencies, and more from the Harvard Alumni Bulletin and Harvard Magazine
Disappointing returns for Harvard endowment amid restructuring
CEO N.V. Narvekar assesses Harvard Management Company’s most recent fiscal-year performance, and the road ahead.
Harvard leaders stress community values at start of the academic year
Harvard’s leaders stress community values at the start of the academic year.
Kennedy School offer to controversial figure provokes uproar
A “visiting fellow” invitation provokes an uproar.
USGSOs reappear on Harvard’s Faculty of Arts and Sciences agenda
Unrecognized single-gender social organizations dominate another Faculty of Arts and Sciences monthly meeting.
Harvard classicist Richard Thomas on Bob Dylan
In a new book, classicist Richard Thomas explores Bob Dylan’s literary ties to ancient Greece and Rome.
Deans departing, sexual-assault standards, and a Lowell House bell
Deans departing, sexual-assault standards, and a Lowell House bell
The ups and downs of peer counseling
Reflections on the ups and downs of peer counseling
An Ivy win and a terrible injury mark Harvard football's early season
An Ivy win and a terrible injury mark Harvard football's early season.
Harvard men's hockey goalie Merrick Madsen
Merrick Madsen was the brick wall in net for last season’s Frozen Four team.
Montage Books, creative arts, performance, and more
Composer Ashley Fure unleashes her visceral opera “The Force of Things”
Composer Ashley Fure wants people to listen to noise.
Excerpt from “The Wine Lover’s Daughter” by Anne Fadiman
Anne Fadiman ’74 recalls her father, Clifton, in an excerpt from The Wine Lover’s Daughter
Found in Translation
Maureen Freely ’74, longtime translator of Orhan Pamuk, shares the nuances of bringing a text from one language to another.
Recent books with Harvard connections
Recent books with Harvard connections
Harvard professor Stephanie Burt on becoming co-poetry editor at “The Nation”
Stephanie Burt ’94 is the kind of poetry critic who provokes anger in other poetry critics.
"Bunk" review: Kevin Young surveys American culture, from circuses to con men
From the Missouri Compromise to the 2016 election, Kevin Young's Bunk takes stock of American hoaxes, con men, and race fantasies.
Chapter and verse quotation-citation correspondence site
Correspondence on not-so-famous lost words
Harvard SquaredWhat to do in Boston, Cambridge, and beyond
International education centers in Greater Boston
Greater Boston’s cultural centers offer a lot more than language classes.
2017 Boston International Antiquarian Book Fair
Rare books and ephemera at the Boston International Antiquarian Book Fair
Old Sturbridge Village offers cold-weather treats
Celebrating Thanksgiving and Christmas at Old Sturbridge Village
Houghton Library’s new exhibit
Harvard’s Houghton Library explores “Altered States: Sex, Drugs, and Transcendence.”
Moldova Restaurant, in Newton
A Moldovan restaurant in Newton reflects rich culinary traditions.
Almuni Harvardians far and wide
This Land Was Made For…
A Utah activist reflects on 40 years of land conservation—and what’s coming next.
Aloian Scholars
Harvard seniors help Houses thrive.
Hiram S. Hunn Awards
Alumni are honored for undergraduate admissions work.
HAA Awards
Six alumni are recognized for long-time volunteer service to the University.
Boosting Harvard museums, and novel architecture
Boosting museums, and novel architecture
The Bruce Telescope Rediscovered
The telescope that helped define Earth’s place in the universe
