On the cover: President Drew Gilpin Faust. Photograph by Jim Harrison
Letters from our readers
Tax reform, shopping week, and enabling expertise
Getting Harvard’s Gen Ed right, finally
The urgency of getting Gen Ed right
July-August 2018
On the cover: President Drew Gilpin Faust. Photograph by Jim Harrison
Harvard’s Elsie Sunderland maps invisible ocean pollutants
Elsie Sunderland traces the flows of human pollutants in the oceans. They come back to bite us.
Moorfield Storey, first president of the NAACP
Brief life of a patrician reformer: 1845-1929
Harvard president Drew Faust in perspective
Drew Faust’s presidency in perspective
Profile of Harvard Kennedy School historian Khalil Gibran Muhammad
Historian Khalil Gibran Muhammad studies one of the most powerful ideas in the American imagination.
RIGHT NOW Harvard research and ideas
Probing the language of emotion
Developmental psychologists find a surprising relationship between age and emotional understanding.
Harvard’s HouseZero, the building that thinks
The Center for Green Buildings and Cities aims to reduce energy used to heat and cool buildings to nearly zero.
Air quality’s critical impact on U.S. mortality rates
Harvard researchers revisit and reaffirm a controversial environmental study.
John Harvard's Journal University news
Harvard’s 2018 Commencement rites
A celebration of President Drew Faust, and wariness about the assault on “veritas”
Harvard honorary-degree recipients of 2018
The 2018 honorands, from acclaimed artists to celebrated statesman
Harvard’s 2018 Latin Orator on Hogwarts
Phoebe Lakin ’18 invokes J.K. Rowling.
Clinton, Raimondo at Commencement 2018
Radcliffe hosts Hillary Rodham Clinton, and the Rhode Island Rhodes Scholar’s modest roots
Commencement Confetti
The 2018 rites in print and digital, M.D. on her toes, and more
President Drew Faust’s Harvard valedictory
President Faust’s Commencement afternoon valedictory address on hope and higher education
Crimmigration: Harvard Law students address immigrants’ legal challenges
Harvard Law students address immigrants’ legal challenges.
Erika Bailey coaches voice and speech at the A.R.T.
Coaching voice and speech at the A.R.T.
Photographs of Arnold Arboretum trees and shrubs through four seasons
A veteran photographer of people turns his lens to plants.
Headlines from Harvard’s history
Headlines from Harvard’s history
Harvard governing-board appointments
A business leader and a college president join the Corporation.
University People
S. Allen Counter, undergraduate-education dean, teaching prizes, and more
New deans, graduate student union, faculty diversity, and a final-club update
Two new deans, a graduate-student union, modest gains in faculty diversity, and a final-club update
Brevia
Mass Hall makeover, Adams House renewal on deck, quantitative biology, and more
The Undergraduate tours Harvard
What makes it “real”?
Montage Books, creative arts, performance, and more
Rage, reborn: profile of guitarist Tom Morello
With his supergroup Prophets of Rage, the musician faces down a president.
Excerpt from “The Known Citizen” by Sarah E. Igo
A sweeping history of the idea of privacy in America
“Next steps”: profile of Paul Taylor dancer Madelyn Ho
Madelyn Ho pursued two tracks: modern dance, and getting her M.D.
Not “Mickey Mousing”: the rigors of accompanying silent films
Three pianists making silent film sing
Recent books with Harvard connections
Recent books with Harvard connections
Book review: “A Terrible Country” is a cold, welcome wind
Keith Gessen’s second novel deftly interweaves politics and personal history.
Chapter and verse quotation-citation correspondence site
Correspondence on not-so-famous lost words
Harvard SquaredWhat to do in Boston, Cambridge, and beyond
Heritage Museums & Gardens, in Sandwich, Massachusetts
Cape Cod’s Heritage Museums & Gardens
Kevin Beasley at ICA/Boston
Sculptures that resonate with what’s not there
MASS MoCA summer events
MASS MoCA’s summer smorgasbord
Methuen Memorial Music Hall
Seasonal concerts at the Methuen Memorial Music Hall
Almuni Harvardians far and wide
A Family Farm
Working a cattle ranch and tree nursery in Big Sky country
Centennial Medalists
Contributions to society from graduate research
The 2018 Harvard Medalists
For extraordinary service to the University
Cambridge Scholars
Harvard graduates are Britain-bound.
The Senior Alumni
Seventy-seventh reunioners Evelyn Richmond and Theodore R. Barnett led the 2018 alumni parade.
New Harvard Overseers and HAA Elected Directors
The annual election results
Reviving Neglected Space
Practicing architecture in Myanmar
Attendance artifact, women’s work, and “Fair Harvard” redux
Attendance artifact, women’s work, and “Fair Harvard” redux
