On the cover: Post-bust, some 10,000 people debated the strike on April 14, 1969. Photograph by Leonard McCombe/The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images
Cambridge 02138 Letters from our readers
Letters on care after the ICU, artificial intelligence, belonging, and more
The view from Mass Hall
President Bacow on Harvard and excellence
Wanted: Big ideas from the humanities
Wanted: Big ideas from the humanities
March-April 2019
On the cover: Post-bust, some 10,000 people debated the strike on April 14, 1969. Photograph by Leonard McCombe/The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images
Medicine’s response to America’s largest public-health crisis
Medicine’s response to America’s largest public-health crisis
“The Bauhaus and Harvard” exhibit at the Harvard Art Museums
Exploring the Bauhaus and Harvard
Samuel Stouffer profile by Jackson Toby
Brief life of Samuel Stouffer, survey researcher: 1900-1960
Participants recall the Harvard bust and strike, and its aftermath
Recalling a time of trial, and its continuing resonances
RIGHT NOW Harvard research and ideas
Wage stagnation: economists look to new explanations
Economists look to new explanations for wage stagnation.
Improved gene editing moves ethical questions to the fore
Advances in editing DNA propel consideration of the technology’s use in humans.
Debora Spar on technology’s role in the origins of marriage and feminism
Debora Spar argues that social change has always been driven by technology.
John Harvard's Journal University news
Harvard’s Office for Technology Development boosts translational research
Robust licensing revenue and corporate alliances boost translational research.
Harvard Portrait: Amy Wagers
The skydiving Forst Family professor studies the pathophysiology of aging.
Launching Gen Ed, rethinking shopping week
Harvard College Gen Ed curriculum nears, and faculty members rethink course registration.
Headlines from Harvard’s history
Cooking for the culinarily challenged…and other headlines from Harvard’s history
Disadvantaged students in elite colleges
Anthony Jack’s new book on the “doubly disadvantaged”
Merkel to speak at Commencement, and other news
Merkel at Commencement, University Professor Faust, Arts First honorand Tracy K. Smith, and more University news
The Undergraduate considers the Smith Campus Center
The Undergraduate considers the Smith Campus Center
A.J. Mleczko, hockey champion and broadcaster: a profile
Hockey champion A.J. Mleczko in the broadcast booth
Montage Books, creative arts, performance, and more
“Binstead’s Safari” and the continuing appeal of novelist Rachel Ingalls
The continuing appeal of novelist Rachel Ingalls
Excerpt from “When Your Child Is Sick,” by Joanna Breyer
Navigating the challenges of caring for a child who is very ill
Paolo Pasco and the art of making crosswords
Paolo Pasco and the art of making crosswords
Excerpt from “How Art Works: A Psychological Exploration”
Unpacking “what art does to us”
“Veep” showrunner David Mandel: a profile
Showrunner David Mandel guides the final season of Veep—and finds himself politicized.
Mark Dery on Edward Gorey, reviewed by Spencer Lee Lenfield
An idiosyncratic new biography of Edward Gorey
Recent books with Harvard connections
Recent books with Harvard connections
Chapter and verse quotation-citation correspondence site
Correspondence on not-so-famous lost words
Harvard SquaredWhat to do in Boston, Cambridge, and beyond
ArtWeek 2019
ArtWeek 2019 offers hundreds of events around Massachusetts.
Harvard music department free concerts
Free spring concerts hosted by Harvard’s music department
Mass Audubon’s early spring events
Exploring nature through Mass Audubon
Howardena Pindell at the Rose Art Museum
Works by Howardena Pindell at the Rose Art Museum
Vietnamese cuisine in Boston
Boston-area Vietnamese cuisine
Transform Your Space for Spring
Brighten and lighten
Almuni Harvardians far and wide
Fighting Need on the Lower East Side
At Henry Street Settlement, David Garza ’86 is not locking anyone out.
HAA Honors Alumni Clubs and SIGs
A celebration of notable alumni and shared interest groups
Overseer and HAA Director Candidates
The official 2019 slates
Harvard University’s 368th Commencement Exercises
Guidelines for this year’s May gala
Documentarian
Michele Forman ’93 offers her UAB film students technical competency and ethical context.
Princeton preps Harvard deans, prophetic Richard Pipes, and more
Harvard’s Tiger deans, the prophetic Richard Pipes, and a high-tech egg
