Letters
May-June 2018
Features
Targeting Cancer
Using precision medicine, Harvard researchers target cancer.
Eunice Kennedy Shriver
Brief life of a world-changer: 1921-2009
Our Towns
James ’70 and Deborah Fallows ’71 explore “what the hell is happening in America.”
Last of the Seafarers
In Indonesia, the Bajau fishermen’s way of life is under pressure.
Tax Reform, Round One
Understanding the real consequences of the new tax law
RIGHT NOW Harvard research and ideas
Trimming Truancy
Interventions that mobilize family support networks have powerful effects.
The Disinformation Dilemma
The digital tools advertisers rely on can be easily manipulated to influence public opinion on politics.
Slavery’s Southern Legacy
A new book traces today’s politics back to chattel slavery.
John Harvard's Journal University news
Continuity and Change
Lawrence S. Bacow named Harvard’s twenty-ninth president
David Davidson
A dining executive on Harvard’s changing food environment
University People
FAS dean to step down, John Lewis to speak at Commencement, Hillary Clinton at Radcliffe, and more
Yesterday’s News
Headlines from Harvard’s history
Educational Improv
A theatre troupe aims for higher ed.
News Briefs
News briefs, from green-energy goals and a move to course preregistration to final-club final sanctions
Advanced Standing Reduced
Course credit toward fast-tracking the A.B. is eliminated.
Brevia
First-Gen policies, Smith Center services, and more University news
A Retirement amid Harassment Allegations
Professor Jorge Domínguez is placed on administrative leave.
A Brain from a Blue Cooler Box
The Undergraduate chooses a concentration.
Triple Play
For Quinn Hoffman, baseball is the family business.
Near Misses
The basketball teams fall short of the NCAAs.
Winter Sports
Late winter and early spring highlights
Montage Books, creative arts, performance and more
Visiting Hours
The portraits in Jack Lueders-Booth’s 40-year-old series feel even more vivid today.
“The Art, the Play, and the Rigor”
How flutist Claire Chase signals a key change for Harvard’s music department
Tyrant Tales
Stephen Greenblatt mines Shakespeare to interpret modern times.
Off the Shelf
Recent books with Harvard connections
The Academic Heights
The former University of Chicago president and Harvard Corporation fellow crafts a timely memoir.
Chapter & Verse
Correspondence on not-so-famous lost words
Harvard Squared What to do in Boston, Cambridge and beyond
Gloucester’s Beauport Mansion
A sprawling house museum celebrates decorative arts and the creative spirit of Henry Davis Sleeper.
A “Declaration of Love and Guts”
Works by T.C. Cannon at the Peabody Essex Museum
Neponset River Greenway
Cycling the Neponset River Greenway
Learning from Toys
The National Black Doll Museum
Harvard Commencement 2018
Speakers, ceremonies, and celebrations
Latest Arrivals
Best new restaurants in and around Cambridge
Almuni Harvardians far and wide
Harvesting History
William Sellers aims to expose a new generation to America’s origins.
Overseer and Director Candidates
The official 2018 slates
Paradigm Shifter
Michael Adams of SAGE is looking out for LGBT elders.
The SIGnboard: Reunion Week Events
Shared Interest Group gatherings in Cambridge
