On the cover: President Drew Gilpin Faust. Photograph by Jim Harrison
Letters
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Tax reform, shopping week, and enabling expertise
Unfinished Business
The urgency of getting Gen Ed right
July-August 2018
On the cover: President Drew Gilpin Faust. Photograph by Jim Harrison
Features
The “Global Chemical Experiment”
Elsie Sunderland traces the flows of human pollutants in the oceans. They come back to bite us.
Moorfield Storey
Brief life of a patrician reformer: 1845-1929
Focus on Faust
Drew Faust’s presidency in perspective
Writing Crime into Race
Historian Khalil Gibran Muhammad studies one of the most powerful ideas in the American imagination.
RIGHT NOW Harvard research and ideas
The Language of Emotion
Developmental psychologists find a surprising relationship between age and emotional understanding.
The Brain in the Basement
The Center for Green Buildings and Cities aims to reduce energy used to heat and cool buildings to nearly zero.
A Particulate Problem
Harvard researchers revisit and reaffirm a controversial environmental study.
John Harvard's Journal University news
Picture-Perfect
A celebration of President Drew Faust, and wariness about the assault on “veritas”
Honoris Causa
The 2018 honorands, from acclaimed artists to celebrated statesman
Humor, Too
Phoebe Lakin ’18 invokes J.K. Rowling.
Women Leaders
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
“The Foundation of Learning”
President Faust’s Commencement afternoon valedictory address on hope and higher education
“Crimmigration”
Harvard Law students address immigrants’ legal challenges.
Erika Bailey
Coaching voice and speech at the A.R.T.
Seasons at the Arboretum
A veteran photographer of people turns his lens to plants.
Yesterday’s News
Headlines from Harvard’s history
Changes at the Top
A business leader and a college president join the Corporation.
University People
S. Allen Counter, undergraduate-education dean, teaching prizes, and more
News Briefs
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 Harvard Tour
What makes it “real”?
Montage Books, creative arts, performance and more
Rage, Reborn
With his supergroup Prophets of Rage, the musician faces down a president.
We Would Have Known
A sweeping history of the idea of privacy in America
Next Steps
Madelyn Ho pursued two tracks: modern dance, and getting her M.D.
Not “Mickey Mousing”
Three pianists making silent film sing
Off the Shelf
Recent books with Harvard connections
Cold Comforts
Keith Gessen’s second novel deftly interweaves politics and personal history.
Chapter & Verse
Correspondence on not-so-famous lost words
Harvard Squared What to do in Boston, Cambridge and beyond
From Flowers to Race Cars
Cape Cod’s Heritage Museums & Gardens
Kevin Beasley at the ICA/Boston
Sculptures that resonate with what’s not there
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
