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Letters on care after the ICU, artificial intelligence, belonging, and more
Excellence
President Bacow on Harvard and excellence
What Counts
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
The Opioids Emergency
Medicine’s response to America’s largest public-health crisis
What a Human Should Be
Exploring the Bauhaus and Harvard
Samuel Stouffer
Brief life of Samuel Stouffer, survey researcher: 1900-1960
Echoes of 1969
Recalling a time of trial, and its continuing resonances
RIGHT NOW Harvard research and ideas
The New Monopoly
Economists look to new explanations for wage stagnation.
Gene Editing and Ethics
Advances in editing DNA propel consideration of the technology’s use in humans.
Technology, Paternity, Patriarchy
Debora Spar argues that social change has always been driven by technology.
John Harvard's Journal University news
Accelerating Innovation
Robust licensing revenue and corporate alliances boost translational research.
Amy Wagers
The skydiving Forst Family professor studies the pathophysiology of aging.
Undergraduate Education Agendas
Harvard College Gen Ed curriculum nears, and faculty members rethink course registration.
Yesterday’s News
Cooking for the culinarily challenged…and other headlines from Harvard’s history
Adjacent but Unequal
Anthony Jack’s new book on the “doubly disadvantaged”
Brevia
Merkel at Commencement, University Professor Faust, Arts First honorand Tracy K. Smith, and more University news
Uncentered
The Undergraduate considers the Smith Campus Center
Seeing the Ice
Hockey champion A.J. Mleczko in the broadcast booth
Montage Books, creative arts, performance, and more
Fiction from Fairy Tales
The continuing appeal of novelist Rachel Ingalls
Entering a New World
Navigating the challenges of caring for a child who is very ill
Remaking the Grid
Paolo Pasco and the art of making crosswords
An Empiricist on Art
Unpacking “what art does to us”
Funny Because It’s True
Showrunner David Mandel guides the final season of Veep—and finds himself politicized.
The Memorable Eccentric
An idiosyncratic new biography of Edward Gorey
Off the Shelf
Recent books with Harvard connections
Chapter and Verse
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.
Music in the Air
Free spring concerts hosted by Harvard’s music department
Mass Audubon Ushers in the Spring
Exploring nature through Mass Audubon
Laying It On
Works by Howardena Pindell at the Rose Art Museum
Of Phở, Bún, and Fish Sauce
Boston-area Vietnamese cuisine
Home Sweet Home: 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’s Tiger deans, the prophetic Richard Pipes, and a high-tech egg