On the cover: The Embrace, on Boston Common, site design by MASS Design. Photograph by MASS Design Group
Letters
Cambridge 02138
Readers’ views about healthy diets, teachers off the tenure track, mitzvot, and more
Farewell
Taking his leave, President Bacow concludes that truly, “At Harvard, wonders never cease.”
Unfinished Business
As President Bacow passes the baton to President Gay, work remains in Allston, online education, FAS planning, and admissions
May-June 2023
On the cover: The Embrace, on Boston Common, site design by MASS Design. Photograph by MASS Design Group
Features
Building a Better World
MASS Design’s healing architecture
Among the Brokenhearted
The ministry of Matthew Ichihashi Potts
Archibald Henry Grimke
Brief life of a Black Harvard Law School graduate: 1849-1930
Plumbing the Deep Sea
Peter Girguis probes life on the ocean floor.
RIGHT NOW Harvard research and ideas
Making Charitable Giving More Competent
How psychological insight can make altruism more rewarding and effective
Enablers of the Unethical
A Harvard Business School professor turns the stage lights on the supporting cast that facilitates unethical acts
Using Cancer to Kill Cancer
A novel immunotherapy turns cancer against itself.
John Harvard's Journal University news
Acting on Slavery’s Legacy
A campus memorial, a senior adviser on engaging with HBCUs, reaching out to descendants, and teaching what has been learned
Publisher Departs
A thank you for years of dedicated service
Roger Fu
A paleomagnetics scholar who uses ancient rocks to peer into the early lives of Earth and Mars
Yesterday’s News
Headlines from Harvard’s history
Seeking Climate Solutions
Teams of Harvard researchers have developed concrete proposals for addressing specific climate impacts.
An Academic Worker’s Union?
Organizing efforts and tough wage negotiations on campus
News in Brief
Commencement speakers, women's hockey investigation, visual-culture curator, and more
Vote Now
Candidates for Overseers and HAA elected directors
Montage Books, creative arts, performance and more
Comedy with a Conscience
Jimmy Tingle’s political humor in a polarized era
Pinned in Memory
Susan Rubin Suleiman’s memoir of a life in Nazi Hungary—and after
Finding the Movie
Screenwriter Julian Breece on “writing from the soul”
Off the Shelf
In love with Harvard Square, the invention of ICUs, Seamus Heaney
Stories of a Not-So-Distant War
Novelist V.V. Ganeshananthan on writing diasporic fiction
The Modern World Reconceived
Interpreting politics through the rise of technocracy, morality, and the “web of capital”
Harvard Squared What to do in Boston, Cambridge and beyond
Fall River: Phoenix Rising?
“A good place to be pleasantly surprised”
Reframing American Art
Contextualized Spanish colonial works at the Harvard Art Museums
Eating Around Cambridge
A selection of celebratory spots
Commencement and Alumni Events 2023
Speakers, ceremonies, and celebrations
Trading Finance for Flowers
Cultivating local blooms in Upton, Massachusetts
Sweet Dreams
Where to sleep, sup, and sip in Harvard Square and beyond this spring.
University People Harvardians far and wide
“Something Is Very Broken”
Boston Area Gleaners fights hunger from the ground up.
Helping Hands
Future physician Victor A. Lopez-Carmen fights for Indigenous healthcare equity
The Climate Connection Between Campus and Home
An undergraduate perspective on the gathering crisis
