On the cover: President Lawrence S. Bacow. Photograph by Stu Rosner
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Letters on faculty diversity, general education, advanced standing, and more
Beginning Again
President Bacow looks ahead to his new freshman year.
Allston Agonistes
Making the most of Harvard’s “ultimate option”
September-October 2018
On the cover: President Lawrence S. Bacow. Photograph by Stu Rosner
The Pragmatist
Lawrence S. Bacow, a career educator, is schooled in making decisions.
William Morris Davis
Brief life of William Morris Davis, pioneering geomorphologist
The Political Solicitor General
The “Tenth Justice” and the polarization of the Supreme Court
The Football Industrial Complex
Boosting the game, and The Game
RIGHT NOW Harvard research and ideas
Fixing America’s Heartland
Could place-based policies solve regional economic and social problems?
Ranking Extinctions by Ecological Impact
New research on extinctions shows that their ecological impact can’t be measured in numbers of species lost.
Violent Innovations
In the antebellum South, slavery was paired with modern business practices.
John Harvard's Journal University news
Day One
With greetings to the community, and a major faculty appointment, new Harvard president Lawrence S. Bacow sets to work.
Litigating Admissions
New filings in a lawsuit against Harvard over admissions allege discrimination against Asian-Americans.
Durba Mitra
Harvard’s first professor appointed solely in gender studies
Yesterday’s News
Headlines from Harvard’s history
Thinking about Space
Design courses enlarge the College curriculum.
News Briefs
A Medical School real-estate deal, and a busy post-presidency for Drew Faust
A Time of Trauma
An exhibit on Harvard in 1969 opens at Pusey Library this fall.
Brevia
New FAS dean, biomedical momentum, and more University news
Take Care of Each Other
The Undergraduate looks at Harvard through an African filter.
New Fellows
The Ledecky Fellows provide an undergraduate perspective on life at Harvard.
Happy Returns
Justice Shelton-Mosley needs only the tiniest bit of space to go the distance.
Montage Books, creative arts, performance, and more
Painter, Anew
Nell Painter reflects on leaving the ivory tower for art school at age 64.
“I Got Race”
A “first-gen” American explores race and assimilation in the United States.
“Little Shards of Dissonance”
An oratorio adapted from Langston Hughes
Slightly Supernatural
In Laura van den Berg’s fiction, the deeply strange is ordinary.
True Lies
Jill Lepore excavates the history of America, down to its bedrock values.
Off the Shelf
Recent books with Harvard connections
Harvard SquaredWhat to do in Boston, Cambridge, and beyond
The Fells
Just north of Boston, a wild park is filled with forests, lakes, and rocky hills.
Lowell Kinetic Sculpture Race
Watch human-powered machines prevail—or not—in Lowell.
The Dark Side of Boston
“Stories the Chamber of Commerce doesn’t want you to hear”
Comedor
An intimate place for Chilean-American food in Newton
Falling for Art
Creative Classes in Cambridge and Boston
Almuni Harvardians far and wide
Rebel Lawyer
Gerald López’s radical theory—and practice
“Building Strong Communities”
New HAA president Margaret Wang ’09
Hiram Hunn Award Winners
The admissions office honors alumni volunteers.
Aloian Memorial Scholars
Two seniors who help make Houses into homes
“For Exceptional Service…”
The 2018 Harvard Alumni Association Award winners
Changing the World
ClassACT HR73 rallies classmates to engage in social change.
NONapathetic
Recollections and Reflections from the Harvard class of 1957—a benchmark reunion project
A Lawyer for Art
Solving legal challenges at MoMA
Sweet Farewell
Spiders and ties, “Fair Harvard” encore, and Faust’s farewell
