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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
Photograph ©Millicent Harvery/Courtesy of the Blue Garden
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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Stimulus funds, meritocracy, enlarging history, and more
President Bacow on the engaged upside to online teaching and learning
Educational, financial, political, and values issues challenge Harvard’s leaders—and the University community.
Ross Douthat sees American society stagnating amid tired culture wars and a gridlocked political system.
Photograph by Stu Rosner
New York Times columnist Ross Douthat’s journey through American decadence and upheaval
Lorenzo Tañada as a senator (in an undated portrait)
Portrait courtesy of the National Library of the Philippines /Wikipedia/Public Domain
Brief life of a Philippine patriot: 1898-1992
Stimulus funds, meritocracy, enlarging history, and more
President Bacow on the engaged upside to online teaching and learning
Educational, financial, political, and values issues challenge Harvard’s leaders—and the University community.
Illustration by Mike Austin
Economic analysis of U.S. government spending shows that some social programs more than pay for themselves.
Illustration by Barbara Dekeyser
Dementia is decreasing in Europe and North America. Why not the rest of the world?
At first glance, Hammond’s Gloucester home could be mistaken for a transplanted European castle.
Photograph by Lovely Valentine Photography/Courtesy of Hammond Castle
Gothic surroundings, spiritualism, and science: Hammond Castle Museum’s eclectic appeal
Meadow with Poplars (circa 1875)
Claude Monet/Courtesy of the Museum of Fine Arts
Winter exhibits at the Museum of Fine Arts
Groovy clocks from The Glass House
Photograph courtesy of The Glass House
Holiday gifts that support the arts
Craigie on Main was remade into Craigie Next Door
Photograph by Rachel Manzier/Metter Media/Courtesy of Craigie on Main
Independent restaurants struggle in the pandemic.
This fall’s welcome to Harvard Yard began with PPE-equipped greeters, virus testing, and pre-isolation meal kits.
Photograph by Kristina DeMichele/Harvard Magazine
A semester conducted in the shadow of the coronavirus
Mayra Rivera
Photograph by Steph Stevens
How apocalyptic narratives help make sense of the modern world
The First Circuit Court of Appeals will rule on a much-watched lawsuit that could determine the future of affirmative action.
Sheree Ohen, associate dean of diversity, inclusion, and belonging
Photograph by Kayana Szymczak
Racial justice efforts, “Lowell?” House, and more
A consequential change in the composition of and elections for the Board of Overseers
Suffragist Susan B. Anthony’s journal displays handwriting much finer than that in many manuscripts. Who did the underlining is unknown.
Detail from: A-143, folder 8, p. 2. Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe Institute
Volunteer transcribers help make Harvard library documents accessible.
Illustration by Amelia Flower/Folio Art
The Undergraduate considers friendships on and away from campus.
In college, Mark Erickson returned to his birthplace, capturing his experience in photographs such as those shown here, all taken in Hanoi. This is “Schoolchildren Playing Cards.”
Photograph by and courtesy of Mark Erickson
Photographer Mark Erickson on the Vietnam he never knew
Dan Chiasson at home in front of a “sometimes delightful, sometimes disturbing” mural by David Teng Olsen, which appears in The Math Campers.
Photograph by Jim Harrison
Poet-critic Dan Chiasson and The Math Campers
Yitzchak Lichtenstein/From the book
Miriam Udel’s passion for children and Yiddish children’s literature
Correspondence on not-so-famous lost words
Applied science in the kitchen: a cornflake chocolate chip marshmallow cookie, from Science and Cooking
Courtesy of W.W. Norton and Company
Recent books with Harvard connections