On the cover: Hemlock Hill, summer 1920. Photograph courtesy of the Arnold Arboretum Archives/©President and Fellows of Harvard College
Letters
Cambridge 02138
Legacies, football, knitting
Living Collections
President Bacow on the Arnold Arboretum as a place for plants and people
Cultural Commitments
Harvard’s post-pandemic workplace culture
March-April 2022
On the cover: Hemlock Hill, summer 1920. Photograph courtesy of the Arnold Arboretum Archives/©President and Fellows of Harvard College
Features
Arnold Arboretum Turns 150
A look back at the Arboretum's history—and the millennia to come
Fugitive Pedagogy
Jarvis Givens rediscovers the underground history of black schooling.
Earl Brown
Brief life of Harvard’s latest major league baseball player: 1903-1980
Meteorologist Matthew Cappucci’s Weather Obsession
The Harvard graduate is the fastest-rising star in weather.
RIGHT NOW Harvard research and ideas
Being Black at Work
Realizing the full potential of black employees
Social Media Use and Adult Depression
A survey reveals suprising links between social media use and depression in adults.
Racial Bias and Redistricting
Efforts to keep census data private result in voter undercounting in diverse districts.
John Harvard's Journal University news
Presiding during the Pandemic
President Bacow on pandemic and academic Harvard
The Omicron Semester
Staving off the surge
Emily Oken's Studies on Nutrition During Pregnancy
Oken's path from archaeology to epidemiology
A Bold Business Agenda
Business School dean Srikant Datar’s priorities for a globally engaged, digital future
Yesterday’s News
Headlines from Harvard’s history
Brevia
ARTS FIRST, Supreme Court affirmative-action review, fading role for standardized texts, and more
News Briefs
A natural- and artificial-intelligence initiative, Allston agita, shopping week, reckonings on visual culture and “denaming”
History-Making Harvard Skier Pushes His Limits
James Kitch on his competitive mindset
Harvard Polo Up Close
Human (and horse) athletes ride through pandemic setbacks
Montage Books, creative arts, performance and more
A Wildlife Painter's Fantastic Beasts
Bradley Scott Davis's conservation-minded artwork
Open Book
Michael Ignatieff on Abraham Lincoln on solace
Off the Shelf
Recent books with Harvard connections
Mike Schur on the Good Life
A humorous guide to ethics and philosophy, from the sitcom creator
Experimental Magic
Jazz composer Phillip Golub and the art of making magic
Music and Language, Reconciled
Matthew Aucoin on opera
Harvard Squared What to do in Boston, Cambridge and beyond
A Verdant Cultural Retreat
Boston’s Forest Hills Cemetery is a welcome respite from the world.
Milton Avery, Wadsworth Atheneum
The American painter’s "playful use of color and diverse stylistic repertoire" on display in Hartford
Steeped
A world of artisanal teas in Somerville
How to Create Your Springtime Oasis
Breathing new life into our domiciles
Almuni Harvardians far and wide
Looking for the Real Stan Lee
Biographer Abraham Riesman plumbs the dark mysteries of the Marvel auteur
Meet the Candidates
Overseer and HAA elected-director nominees—and their views
Commencement and Alumni Annual Meeting Notice 2022
The official notices for Commencement 2022 and Harvard Alumni Day
Miller of "The Bay State Banner"
Countering misinformation and chronicling black success
