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Targeting the wrong buyers—and producing more greenhouse-gas emissions
The high costs of environmental, historic-preservation, and other good intentions
Understanding “low response to training”—and searching for solutions for diabetics and others
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Ten percent of MBA students to receive full tuition scholarships
The Supreme Court will hear arguments this fall.
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Kevin Kallaugher on the art of editorial cartooning
A lifelong struggle with body image led Juna Gjata to podcasting.
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The commercial "enterprise research campus" will begin rising on the gray parcel at the center, above—but Harvard's broader strategy is not widley known.
Image from Google Earth
The Corporation’s role in communicating University strategies—and the magazine’s 125th
The extraordinary promise of Harvard’s libraries
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Exhibit at Vermont's Shelburne Museum offers beauty and vitality
esperanza spalding performs at the 2018 New York Live Arts Gala, sporting her signature “Life Force” outfit.
Photograph by Noam Galai/Getty Images
The musician and "songwright" invites the listener in
Kevin Kallaugher on the art of editorial cartooning
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Parry in Paris circa 1925-1928
Photograph courtesy of the Milman Parry Collection of Oral Literature, Harvard University.
Brief life of a Homeric scholar with a big idea: 1902-1935
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This portrait of Hunt Logan by the Parisian-trained, African-American painter William Edouard Scott, was begun in 1915 while he was in residence at Tuskegee and completed at her daughter’s direction in 1918.
Portrait from Adele Logan Alexander’s personal collection
Brief life of a rebellious black suffragist: 1863-1915
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“Shopping week,” workplace culture, solace, and other reader views
President Bacow on maintaining University values while adopting the best lessons learned during the pandemic
The gains and losses from changes in Commencement and “shopping week”
Gary Jones with the truck he learned to operate at East Mississippi Community College
Photograph by Matthew G. Wood
Most Americans earn less than their parents did. Can community colleges bridge the gap?
Portrait of Lorna Myrtle Hodgkinson, ca. 1922
Photograph courtesy of Harvard University Archives
Brief life of a dauntless educator: 1887-1951
Pierre Dupont in his pediatric surgical research lab at Boston Children’s Hospital
Photograph by Jim Harrsion
Engineering advances in surgery, mobility, and patient care
“Shopping week,” workplace culture, solace, and other reader views
President Bacow on maintaining University values while adopting the best lessons learned during the pandemic
The gains and losses from changes in Commencement and “shopping week”
Illustration by Taylor Callery
Unfettered access to personal data may give Chinese companies an edge in artificial intelligence.
Illustration by Giovanni Da Rae
COVID-19’s toll on black patients extends to those who never got the virus.
Ruby Red horsechestnut (Aesculus x carnea ‘Briotii’)
Photograph by William “Ned” Friedman/The Harvard Arnold Arboretum
Lesser-known plants with tricks up their sleeves (or, rather, stems)
Untitled, c.2000
Photograph ©Estate of Barkley L. Hendricks/Courtesy of the artist’s estate and Jack Shainman Gallery, New York
How the artist saw community—and the world
Ukrainian flag flying at University Hall
Photograph by Jennifer Carling/Harvard Magazine
Harvard responses to the war on Ukraine
Sabrineh Ardalan
Photograph by Jessica Scranton
Sabrineh Ardalan directs Harvard’s Immigration and Refugee Clinic.
Demonstrators gathered outside the Science Center on February 14 before marching through the Yard.
Photograph by Niko Yaitanes/Harvard Magazine
Lawsuit claims the University downplayed sexual misconduct allegations against anthropology professor John Comaroff.
Clockwise from top left: Sherrilyn Ifill, Merrick B. Garland, Tracy K. Smith, Jacinda Ardern
Clockwise from top left: Photograph courtesy of NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund; United States Department of Justice; Photograph by Stephanie Mitchell/Harvard University; Photograph by the New Zealand Government/Office of the Governor-General
Jacinda Ardern, Merrick Garland, and other lead speakers at Commencement and alumni events
A hybrid classroom at Harvard Business School, created to enable in-person and remote instruction during the pandemic. The new task force report assesses innovations like this, and their application to residential, hybrid, and remote teaching and learning in Harvard’s future.
Photograph by Hensley Carrasco/Harvard Business School
The future of teaching and learning at Harvard—and beyond
Penny Pritzker elected senior fellow, climate-change investments, Allston expectations, undergraduate academics, and the reformed tenure track
Ketanji Brown Jackson
Photograph by Reuters/Kevin Lamarque/Pool/Alamy Images
Associate Justice-in-waiting Jackson, the College class of 2026, and more University news
Anna Soltys Morse (red shirt, gray pants) performing hand-to-hand acrobatics with other cast members of the outdoor show Branché
Photograph by Christopher Duggan
Anna Soltys Morse and the art of hand-to-hand flying
The Wexner Center for the Arts, at Ohio State University, signaled large shifts in culture—and architecture.
A comprehensive examination of avant-garde architecture
As a singer and songwriter, Claudia García performs mariachi-inspired Latin fusion music.
Photograph by Javier Vela; courtesy of mariachimusic.com
How Claudia García got “mariachi fever”
Giuliano da Sangallo’s fine hand applied to both Roman ruins and his own designs: here, San Lorenzo, in Florence
Image Scala/Art Resource, NY
Recent books with Harvard connections
Members of the Devon Regiment and police, searching homes during the Mau Mau rebellion, round up local people for interrogation c. 1954.
Photographs by Popperfoto via Getty Images/Getty Images
A new history indicts the British imperium.
After struggling to secure a U.S. visa for an Afghan informant, Phil Caruso has helped others navigate this complex process.
Photograph courtesy of Phil Caruso
The U.S. wars in Iraq and Afghanistan are over—but promises remain unfulfilled.
The Board of Overseers and Alumni Association elected director slates