Letters from Our Readers
Feeding the world, Alain Locke’s faith, divestment
The view from Mass Hall
At work on Harvard’s Washington agenda
Harvard president-elect Lawrence Bacow’s agenda
Ideas for the president-elect’s consideration, from costs and partnerships to Allston and admissions
May-June 2018
Using precision medicine, Harvard researchers target cancer
Using precision medicine, Harvard researchers target cancer.
Eunice Kennedy Shriver and the Special Olympics
Brief life of a world-changer: 1921-2009
“Our Towns” highlights a positive force in American life
James ’70 and Deborah Fallows ’71 explore “what the hell is happening in America.”
The Bajau fishermen of Indonesia face lifestyle pressures.
In Indonesia, the Bajau fishermen’s way of life is under pressure.
Mihir Desai explains the real consequences of the new tax law
Understanding the real consequences of the new tax law
RIGHT NOW Harvard research and ideas
Behavioral “nudges” boost student performance
Interventions that mobilize family support networks have powerful effects.
Dipayan Ghosh on how Russia hacked its way into our politics
The digital tools advertisers rely on can be easily manipulated to influence public opinion on politics.
Harvard researchers discuss Southern politics’ roots in slavery
A new book traces today’s politics back to chattel slavery.
John Harvard's Journal University news
Harvard elects Lawrence Bacow president
Lawrence S. Bacow named Harvard’s twenty-ninth president
Profile of Harvard Dining Services managing director David Davidson
A dining executive on Harvard’s changing food environment
FAS dean to step down and more
FAS dean to step down, John Lewis to speak at Commencement, Hillary Clinton at Radcliffe, and more
Headlines from Harvard’s history
Headlines from Harvard’s history
Harvard’s Bok Players get audiences “below the neck”
A theatre troupe aims for higher ed.
Fossil-fuel-free goal, shopping week RIP, and more
News briefs, from green-energy goals and a move to course preregistration to final-club final sanctions
Advanced Standing reduced at Harvard
Course credit toward fast-tracking the A.B. is eliminated.
First-Gen policies, Smith Center services, and more
First-Gen policies, Smith Center services, and more University news
Professor Jorge Domínguez faces “full and fair review”
Professor Jorge Domínguez is placed on administrative leave.
The Undergraduate shifts from physics to psychology
The Undergraduate chooses a concentration.
Quinn Hoffman plays baseball at Harvard
For Quinn Hoffman, baseball is the family business.
Harvard basketball teams fall short of the 2018 NCAAs
The basketball teams fall short of the NCAAs.
Harvard late-winter and early-spring sports wrap-up
Late winter and early spring highlights
Montage Books, creative arts, performance, and more
Revisiting Jack Lueders-Booth’s portrait series “Women Prisoners”
The portraits in Jack Lueders-Booth’s 40-year-old series feel even more vivid today.
Claire Chase, flutist and Harvard professor, profiled by Lucy Caplan
How flutist Claire Chase signals a key change for Harvard’s music department
Open Book: Excerpt from “Tyrant,” by Stephen Greenblatt
Stephen Greenblatt mines Shakespeare to interpret modern times.
Recent books with Harvard connections
Recent books with Harvard connections
“An Academic Life” by Hanna Holborn Gray reviewed
The former University of Chicago president and Harvard Corporation fellow crafts a timely memoir.
Chapter and verse quotation-citation correspondence site
Correspondence on not-so-famous lost words
Harvard SquaredWhat to do in Boston, Cambridge, and beyond
Beauport, the Sleeper-McCann House, in Gloucester
A sprawling house museum celebrates decorative arts and the creative spirit of Henry Davis Sleeper.
T.C. Cannon at the Peabody Essex Museum, Salem
Works by T.C. Cannon at the Peabody Essex Museum
Riding Boston’s Neponset River Greenway
Cycling the Neponset River Greenway
National Black Doll Museum
The National Black Doll Museum
Harvard Commencement 2018
Speakers, ceremonies, and celebrations
New restaurants in Cambridge
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
Chaucer for young ladies, Philip Kuhn, TR, and more
When teaching was gendered, Porsche populism, and Harvard’s presidential symbolism
