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Reconstruction of a local landmark begins soon.
Charles Altchek ’07 moves from the field to the front office.
Astrophysicist Kareem El-Badry challenges scientific mistakes.
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Coming to terms with personal and pandemic grief
Why (and how) to help undergraduates make the most of their extracurriculars
New books by Harvard experts on college preparation, rankings, student experiences, and institutional strategies
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Charles Altchek ’07 moves from the field to the front office.
Visiting Mystic, Connecticut
Jurassic World Dominion screenwriter Emily Carmichael on scripting Hollywood sci-fi epics
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Gazing across symmetrical reflecting pools of the restored Blue Garden
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Newport's restored landscape
Visiting Mystic, Connecticut
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Thinking about how Harvard conducts admissions, as the Supreme Court prepares to weigh in
Coming to terms with personal and pandemic grief
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Jurassic World Dominion screenwriter Emily Carmichael on scripting Hollywood sci-fi epics
The revered literary magazine editor discusses the writing (and reading) life.
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Charles Altchek ’07 moves from the field to the front office.
As an assistant coach at the University of Michigan, Moore helped lead the Wolverines to the NCAA Tournament's Elite Eight.
Photograph by Michigan Athletics/courtesy of Harvard Athletic Communications
She succeeds Kathy Delaney-Smith, who led the Crimson for 40 seasons.
Comprehensive modernization to begin this year
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Reconstruction of a local landmark begins soon.
Brief life of a pioneering ethnobotanist and conservationist: 1915-2001
From the archives
Image courtesy of Baker Library, Harvard Business School
Edwin H. Land and the shaping of entrepreneurship in Greater Boston
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Gun violence, drug laws, climate change and more
President Bacow on Nobel honorands and curiosity-driven research
On the University’s fiscal position and academic aspirations
James Collins
Photograph by by Jim Harrison
For synthetic biologists, there appears to be no limit to what they can build.
Illustration by Gary Neill
David Hemenway advocates a pragmatic, public-health-based solution to gun homicides and suicides.
Photograph by Marc F. Henning / Alamy Stock Photo
New models for newspaper journalism in the Internet era
Gun violence, drug laws, climate change and more
President Bacow on Nobel honorands and curiosity-driven research
On the University’s fiscal position and academic aspirations
Illustration by Taylor Callery
A potential “paradigm shift” in developing new diagnostic tests in mental health
Illustration by Adam Niklewicz
David Deming says existing federal higher-education subsidies, if redeployed, could make public colleges free.
Provincetown’s winter harbor
Photograph by Age Fotostock/Alamy Stock Photo
Just enough art, culture, terrific food, and lively conversation....
John Christian Anderson’s Sacrificial Lamb
Photograph by Will Howcroft
Revealing sculptures at the Fuller Craft Museum, in Brockton
From the New York City production
Photograph by Joan Marcus
“Gloria: A Life,” at the American Repertory Theater
The casual Map Room Tea Lounge offers “bar bites,” like the charcuterie board and tartines
Photograph by Binita Patel
The Boston Public Library’s cozy winter hideout
Walking the line: Graduate Student Union picketers in Harvard Yard on December 3, the morning their strike began.
Photograph by Jonathan Shaw/Harvard Magazine
HGSU-UAW members go out on strike two days before reading period.
Shawon Kinew
Photograph by Stu Rosner
Connecting European Old Masters with the new landscape of art history
A faculty debate, and a challenge slate for the Board of Overseers
An appreciation for outstanding work
Robert L. Scalise
Photograph by Stephanie Mitchell/Harvard Public Affairs and Communications
Sexual-misconduct survey results, and the athletics director to retire
Online summer programs get students ready for inclusive M.B.A., J.D., and M.Ed. studies.
Nobel laureates, HBS dean stepping down, Allston options, and more
Four score: With Yale’s Melvin Rouse II in vain pursuit, Harvard’s Aidan Borguet heads for the goal line. Against the Elis, the Crimson freshman back rushed for a series single-game record 269 yards and amassed four touchdowns on only 11 carries, a performance that helped earn him the Ivy League Rookie of the Year award.
Photographs by Tim O’Meara/The Harvard Crimson
Dreadful defeats—and a heartbreaking Game—produced the Crimson’s first losing season of the century.
The Kupermans choreographed the 2019 musical Alice By Heart, a retelling of Alice in Wonderland set during the London Blitz
Photograph by Deen Van Meer
The brothers Kuperman—choreographers, directors, and storytellers
When the president cared about poverty: LBJ visits Tom Fletcher in Inez, Kentucky, April 24, 1964—an iconic image from the Great Society era
Photograph by Bettmann/Getty Images
The world’s richest nation tolerates “basically the highest child poverty rates in the developed world.”
At the 2019 Artlake Festival in Germany, Chen (in red skirt) and artist Annique Delphine (pink skirt) lead Heal Her, a traveling workshop of collective storytelling and art for sexual-violence survivors.
Photograph by Molly Baber
Lena Chen transforms trauma into art and performance.
From early on, Americans held urban ideals: Mulberry Street, New York City, c. 1900.
Photograph courtesy of the Library of Congress
Recent books with Harvard connections
Fowler, with phones old and new. The dozens in his desk drawer are useful when reviewing current models. “I put a lot of work into trying not to fall into the trap of buying a thing because it’s new,” he says.
Photograph by Patrick Tehan
Geoffrey Fowler tackles the “great reckoning” with privacy.
Alumni describe their challenges in leaving home and coming to the College.