On the cover: Stephen Gray/Photograph by Aaron Conway/aaconn studio
Letters from our readers
Acupuncture, climate change, renaming
The View from Mass Hall
President Bacow on speech on campus
7 Ware Street Diverging Ivies
What Ivy institutions’ diverging paths reveal
March-April 2021
On the cover: Stephen Gray/Photograph by Aaron Conway/aaconn studio
Stephen Gray of Harvard Design School profiled by Jacob Sweet
Stephen Gray pioneers equitable urban design.
Jeannie Suk Gersen of Harvard Law School, profiled by Lydialyle Gibson
Jeannie Suk Gersen on the law, trauma, and “the rhetoric of believing”
Elizabeth Bangs Bryant
Brief life of an underappreciated arachnologist
An organismic biologist praises reawakening to the natural world
Re-engaging with nature alongside the director of the Arnold Arboretum
RIGHT NOW Harvard research and ideas
An intellectual history of the Cold War era
In a new book, Louis Menand probes the cultural currents of postwar America.
Clues to the persistence of Jupiter’s Great Red Spot
The gas giant’s storms could be driven by processes thousands of kilometers below the surface.
Using DNA for data storage
Compact and persistent, DNA could one day compress all human knowledge into a 15-gallon drum.
John Harvard's Journal University news
An innovative gate for Harvard Yard
At Houghton and Lamont libraries, a creative new entry into the Yard
Online education at Harvard—a status report
Pandemic-driven virtual learning booms—and perhaps promises improved residential education, too.
Harvard Portrait: Roxanne Guenette
Seeking answers to science’s biggest questions
Headlines from Harvard’s history
Headlines from Harvard’s history
Higher-profile Board of Overseers Election
Prospective candidates and their diverse views of Harvard’s future and the Board’s role
The Xfund’s liberal-arts entrepreneurs
The Xfund helps young entrepreneurs launch companies and careers.
Adams House exit, IOP adviser removed, admissions avalanche, and more
Adams House changing of rhe guard, Institute of Politics controversy, an avalanche of applications, and more
A pandemic spring semester, policing reform, and more
Reports on the pandemic spring semester, policing reform, Allston enlargement, and cell-manufacturing
The Undergraduate balances childhood and maturity
The Undergraduate balances childhood and maturity.
Harvard’s popular runners’s loop
A legendary route’s disputed distance
Montage Books, creative arts, performance, and more
A monumental book reveals a monumental work of art
Nicholas Callaway publishes the Sistine Chapel in closeup.
Excerpt from “Shoddy,” by Hanna Rose Shell
“From Devil’s Dust to the Renaissance of Rags”—a surprising account of scrap
Excerpt from “The WEIRDEST People in the World,” by Joseph Henrich
Reinterpreting the distinctive psychology of the human West
“Lone Stars”—an HLS grad’s semi-autobiographical debut novel
Fiction about “the power that comes to us when we uncloset ourselves”
Recent books with Harvard connections
Recent books with Harvard connections
Chapter & Verse
Correspondence on not-so-famous lost words
“Some Kind of Heaven,” a documentary by Lance Oppenheim
Documentarian Lance Oppenheim explores life in The Villages.
Harvard SquaredWhat to do in Boston, Cambridge, and beyond
Greater Boston’s art-house cinemas: a status report
Greater Boston’s small cinemas strive to engage film-goers during the pandemic.
“Shen Wei: Painting in Motion”
“Shen Wei: Painting in Motion,” at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum
“This is Not a Gag,” MASS MoCA
Richard Nielsen: “This is Not a Gag,” at MASS MoCA
The Muse & The Marketplace 2021
This Boston conference offers a virtual writing retreat.
Spruce up your own outdoor spaces
Turning your al fresco space into a springtime oasis
Almuni Harvardians far and wide
Curator of American Culture
Radhika Jones at the helm of Vanity Fair
Honoring Alumni Leaders
Highlighting leaders at clubs and SIGs
The College Pump
Classy masks, dapper archaeologist, saving H.H. Richardson’s house
