Letters on President Bacow, the solicitor general, Facebook, and more
Letters on President Bacow, the solicitor general, Facebook, and more
Matching Harvard’s money to its mission
Matching Harvard’s money to its mission
November-December 2018
Karen King, historian of the early Christian church
Karen King studies texts from Christianity’s first centuries to reinterpret the history of the early church.
Millicent Todd Bingham
Brief life of an unlikely Dickinson scholar
Vamsi Mootha studies mitochondria and oxygen
Probing the mysteries of mitochondria, Vamsi Mootha discovers new ways to understand metabolic disease.
Dumbarton Oaks exhibit “Juggling the Middle Ages” is previewed
A Dumbarton Oaks exhibition connects “an enchanted past” to the human condition.
A melting pot: Harvard’s 1968 football team
How the Crimson squad from the immortal ’68 Game revealed a transforming Harvard
RIGHT NOW Harvard research and ideas
Is there a language of behavior?
Sandeep Datta says the brain composes behavior from pre-existing “syllables.”
A. Sloan Devlin Seeks to Decrypt the Gut Microbiome
Altering one gene in a gut microbe transforms metabolism.
Diversity and diminishing tax revenues: research by Marco Tabellini
Can public goods survive white flight?
John Harvard's Journal University news
Harvard inaugurates Larry Bacow, its twenty-ninth president
The University’s new leader focuses on challenges to higher education in America.
New community convening spaces straddle the Charles
Smith Campus Center, Klarman Hall debut.
Khalil Abdur-Rashid, Muslim chaplain at Harvard
The University’s Muslim chaplain
Harvard endowment and capital campaign totals
The bottom line on the endowment
Harvard’s $9.62-billion fund drive
Harvard’s $9.62-billion fund drive
Admissions litigation, sexual assault, humanities, endowment taxes
Admissions litigation, sexual assault, humanities losses, endowment taxes
Headlines from Harvard’s history
Headlines from Harvard’s history
New development director, online degrees, leadership leaders, and more
New development director, online degrees, leadership leaders, and more
Changes at Harvard University Press
Harvard University Press director George Andreou on the future of academic publishing
The Undergraduate considers study abroad
The Undergraduate considers study abroad.
Dick Friedman on early season Harvard football
The early season holds no easy wins for Harvard football.
Saber champion Eli Dershwitz looks to the 2020 Olympics.
Ranked first in the world, fencer Eli Dershwitz looks to the 2020 Olympics.
Montage Books, creative arts, performance, and more
Opera director Sarah Meyers, profiled by Jennifer Gersten
Opera director Sarah Meyers doesn’t want you to notice everything.
Robert Coles and Atul Gawande on William Carlos Williams
Two Harvard doctors on William Carlos Williams
Shane McCrae: the poet and his work
The propulsive intensity of Shane McCrae’s poetry
Excerpt from “Scale & the Incas”
Questions about how societies conceptualize, perceive, and interpret scale.
Recent books with Harvard connections
Recent books with Harvard connections
Philip Johnson biography by Mark Lamster reviewed by Spencer Lee Lenfield
A “star-chitect” as P.T. Barnum
Chapter and verse quotation-citation correspondence site
Correspondence on not-so-famous lost words
Harvard SquaredWhat to do in Boston, Cambridge, and beyond
Boston’s seasonal arts events
Boston’s open studios, holiday craft fairs, and more
Twyla Tharp’s “Minimalism and Me”
A retrospective show at Boston’s ICA
Stevens-Coolidge Place winter activities
Winterlights and scavenger hunts at the historic Stevens-Coolidge Place
“Time is Now: Photography in Baldwin’s Era” exhibit at the Carpenter Center
Eighteen photographers capture the 1930s through the 1980s.
Experiential Holiday Gifts
A roundup of creative gift ideas for this holiday season
Almuni Harvardians far and wide
Please, Run!
Social entrepreneur Jill Vialet ’86 on “positive chaos” and fixing recess
Alaskan Educator
In rural Alaska, Jim Merriner runs a school district with a major educational footprint across the state.
