On the cover: Illustration by Sam Falconer
Letters
Cambridge 02138
Campus discourse, ethics education, affirmative action
Legacies’ Legacy
Adapting admissions to new socioeconomic and political circumstances
November-December 2023
On the cover: Illustration by Sam Falconer
Features
“Let Us Be Courageous Together”
Claudine Gay’s presidential installation
You Are What (Your Microbes) Eat
Diet, cooking, and the human microbiome
Anna Jacobson Schwartz
Brief life of a pioneering economist: 1915-2012
Harvard’s G.O.A.T.
Remembering Charlie Brickley at the Crimson’s football sesquicentennial
RIGHT NOW Harvard research and ideas
Reforming International Finance
Is it time to reform global financial institutions that support economic and political stability?
The Brain-Cancer Link
Growth-stimulating crosstalk between the brain and cancer tumors presents a new target for therapy.
Preparing for the Energy Transition
Expect massive job losses in industries associated with fossil fuels. The time to get ready is now.
John Harvard's Journal University news
AI in the Academy
Generative AI can enhance teaching and learning but augurs a shift to oral forms of student assessment.
Vikram Patel
He wanted to be a chef, but instead became a leader in global health
Real Estate by Design
A new Graduate School of Design degree
Yesterday’s News
Courses in swimming pool management and table-waiting—with an eye toward summer employment
News in Brief
New Divinity and Engineering and Applied Sciences deans, Kennedy School and Art Museums departures, and more
Exceeding Expectations
Footballers’ fast, impressive start
Montage Books, creative arts, performance and more
Inclusive Design, Incisive Art
Amy Yoshitsu’s vision for change
How Revolutions Happen
Robert Darnton on the origins of the French Revolutionary temperament
Reviving Black Classical Music
Pianist Gerry Bryant highlights black composers.
Off the Shelf
Recent books with Harvard connections
Shakespeare’s Uncanny Presence
Marjorie Garber explores the bard’s influence on the Bloomsbury Group.
Harvard Squared What to do in Boston, Cambridge and beyond
The Good Fight
A Boston museum highlights historic black activism.
Boston Baroque at 50
The early music orchestra offers holiday and other concerts this season
Lighting the World
Ellen Carey's pioneering photographs, New Britain Museum of American Art
Free to Fly
A wintry weekend jaunt to Deerfield, Massachusetts
Snuggling Up in the Square
There’s nowhere quite like Harvard Square during the holidays
University People Harvardians far and wide
Her Bread and Butter
A third-generation French baker on legacy loaves and the "magic" of baking
HAA Award Winners
Honoring service to the University
Club and Alumni Interest Group Awards
Fostering community
An “Older Sister” to Combat Anemia
Alan Espinosa addresses a global health challenge.
What Work Means
Does Gen Z expect too much from employers?
Aloian Memorial Scholars
House leaders
