On the Cover: Illustration by Nicole Xu
Letters to the Editor Harvard Magazine January-February 2025
Correspondence about housing affordability, athletes’ success, antisemitism, teaching reading, and more
Who Should Define Campus Free Speech?
Skirmishing about what it means to protest
January-February 2025
On the Cover: Illustration by Nicole Xu
The Needs of Dementia Caregivers
What it's like to look after a loved one with dementia
Teaching T-Cells to Kill Cancer
Teaching T-cells to kill cancer—and other feats of biomedical science
Harvard Pioneering Mammalogist Barbara Lawrence
Brief life of an intrepid mammalogist: 1909-1997
Harvard Professors Leaving for Private Sector Research
Three distinguished scientists on leaving academia to advance biomedical research
RIGHT NOW Harvard research and ideas
Reassessing Punishments for Misdemeanors
In more misdemeanor cases, prosecutors should decline to proceed from the start.
Sustainability and Food Production in Africa
Improved agricultural practices could cut methane emissions to zero.
How Much Alcohol is Safe?
Drinking alcohol increases cancer risk, but may protect against cardiovascular disease.
John Harvard's Journal University news
Harvard Library Protests and Free Speech
Balancing academic requirements and free speech, in a semester calm enough to permit more focus on Harvard’s core strengths—and questions of governance
Harvard Writing Center's Jane Rosenzweig on AI and Writing
Harvard Writing Center’s Jane Rosenzweig on AI and writing
Harvard Fiscal Year 2024 Finances
Annual Harvard financial results, and a look at the Faculty of Arts and Sciences’ fisc and professoriate
Short Headlines from Harvard History
From the pages of the Harvard Alumni Bulletin and Harvard Magazine
Brief News around Harvard January-February 2025
Nobel honorands, institutional voice, civil discourse, Rhodes Scholars, and more
Harvard Football's 2024 Season and the Harvard-Yale Game
A shared Ivy football championship, after a loss in The Game
Montage Books, creative arts, performance, and more
From Harvard-Trained Architect to Miniature Diorama Builder
Fred Gevalt’s astonishing and intricate diorama
"Rent Free" and Gen Z: Harvard Alum Jacob Roberts on Filmmaking, Gig Culture, and Growing Up
Actor and filmmaker Jacob Roberts’s Gen Z sensibility
Harvard Harpist Creates Album of Women's Compositions
Harpist Elisabeth Remy Johnson’s extended reach
Recent Books with Harvard Connections January 2024
Recent books about Iraq, academic writing, John Singer Sargent, “eldercide,” and more
Redefining Race as Ethnicity
The expansive literary scholarship of Werner Sollors
The Ideology of Settler Colonialism and Israel-Palestine
A critical analysis of “settler colonialism”
Harvard SquaredWhat to do in Boston, Cambridge, and beyond
Museum of Printing Massachusetts
A unique museum in Haverhill, Massachusetts, offers a history of graphic arts.
Harvard Film Archive West African Women in Films
The Harvard Film Archive features works by director Rosine Mbakam
Artist Janiva Ellis at the Harvard Carpenter Center
Newly finished paintings unveiled
University People Harvardians far and wide
Brain-Computer Interfaces and Medicine
Benjamin Rapoport aims to aid neurology patients.
College Conversers
A Salon of “curious and earnest” inquisitors
Feminist Spaces on the Harvard University Campus
On seeking feminist spaces on campus
David Gordon Mitten, Harvard Classicist, Professor, and Curator
An archaeologist/curator/hands-on humanist, and an artifact from the era of typewritten term papers
Ansel Adams and the Polaroid Connection: How Art and Innovation Shaped Photography
Polaroid’s artistic visionaries
