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“Find Yourself a Teacher…”

President Garber’s Morning Prayers

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Harvard Reiterates Campus Rules

As fall semester begins, the University executive vice president underscores the limits to protest.

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Rakesh Khurana To Step Down

The College dean will retire next June.

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Massachusetts Hall

Alan Garber’s Opening Words

Harvard president welcomes students, foresees conflict in the year ahead.

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Convocation 2024: The New Crew Redux

Welcoming the class of 2028 to a challenged Harvard

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An illustration envisioning a remade SAT test

Montage | September-October 2024

Beyond the SAT

Nicholas Lemann on revising standardized testing to address real educational needs

A boy in period military dress

Harvard Squared | September-October 2024

A Victorious Vessel

USS Constitution—for all ages

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Serena Jampel (left) and Yasmeen Khan (right)

University People
September-October 2024

Welcoming the New Ledecky Fellows

The 2024-2025 Undergraduate columnists

Against the background of a single neuron (orange), an axon (blue) emanating from another cell whorls itself into tangled balls.

Right Now
September-October 2024

Mapping the Human Brain

A decade-long project to map a cubic millimeter of human brain reveals previously unimagined architectures.

A black-and-white portrait of Tomi Adeyemi, alongside the covers of her novels "Children of Blood and Bone," "Children of Anguish and Anarchy," and "Children of Virtue and Vengeance."

Montage
September-October 2024

Bringing the Magic

The reality-based fantasies of novelist Tomi Adeyemi

Leaf shapes of some of the various species of maples (genus Acer) on a black background

Montage
September-October 2024

Cultivating Friendships with Trees

A monumental new guide to North American species

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Don’t Scrap Standardized Tests. Make Them Fairer.

The Chronicle of Higher Education | 9.6.2024

Read more on this topic in Harvard Magazine's article: Beyond the SAT

Two years in, Harvard’s Legacy of Slavery initiative has little to show

The Boston Globe | 9.6.2024

Read more on this topic in Harvard Magazine's article: Acting on Slavery’s Legacy and Harvard’s Ties to Slavery

Only the First Amendment Can Protect Students, Campuses and Speech

The New York Times | 9.6.2024

Read more on this topic in Harvard Magazine's article: Academic Freedom and Free Speech and The Legal Olympian

Parents, before you sign up your child for football, read this

The Boston Globe | 9.5.2024

Read more on this topic in Harvard Magazine's article: Hits, Heads, Helmets

The Black List Helped Reshape Hollywood. Can It Change Publishing?

The New York Times | 9.4.2024

Read more on this topic in Harvard Magazine's article: The Outsiders’ Insider

Courting Catastrophe

The Chronicle of Higher Education | 8.29.2024

Read more on this topic in Harvard Magazine's article: Near and Distant Objectives and America’s Little Giant

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Harvard in the headlines

Harvard Magazine sorts through news and commentary in other media and shares diverse views with you. Learn more.

Don’t Scrap Standardized Tests. Make Them Fairer.

The Chronicle of Higher Education | 9.6.2024

Read more on this topic in Harvard Magazine's article: Beyond the SAT

Two years in, Harvard’s Legacy of Slavery initiative has little to show

The Boston Globe | 9.6.2024

Read more on this topic in Harvard Magazine's article: Acting on Slavery’s Legacy and Harvard’s Ties to Slavery

Only the First Amendment Can Protect Students, Campuses and Speech

The New York Times | 9.6.2024

Read more on this topic in Harvard Magazine's article: Academic Freedom and Free Speech and The Legal Olympian

Parents, before you sign up your child for football, read this

The Boston Globe | 9.5.2024

Read more on this topic in Harvard Magazine's article: Hits, Heads, Helmets

Read more articles

Harvard in the headlines

Harvard Magazine sorts through news and commentary in other media and shares diverse views with you. Learn more.

Don’t Scrap Standardized Tests. Make Them Fairer.

The Chronicle of Higher Education | 9.6.2024

Read more on this topic in Harvard Magazine's article: Beyond the SAT

Two years in, Harvard’s Legacy of Slavery initiative has little to show

The Boston Globe | 9.6.2024

Read more on this topic in Harvard Magazine's article: Acting on Slavery’s Legacy and Harvard’s Ties to Slavery

Only the First Amendment Can Protect Students, Campuses and Speech

The New York Times | 9.6.2024

Read more on this topic in Harvard Magazine's article: Academic Freedom and Free Speech and The Legal Olympian

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Features
January-February 2023

Fernando Zóbel-Montojo

Brief life of an abstract painter: 1924-1984

An illustration depicts the torso of a patient as teams of tiny, Lilliputian physicians run tests and examinations.

Right Now
September-October 2019

Are Super Responders Special?

Do patients who defeat cancer hold biological secrets?

Sam Sifton in his Brooklyn kitchen

Alumni
September-October 2021

Improvised Cuisine

The joys of cooking with The New York Times's Sam Sifton 

Illustration imagining the evolution of computer science at Harvard in a playful way

Features
September-October 2020

A Science Is Born

The “yeasty” times” when computer research grew at Harvard

Illustration of an apple being pushed from a platform into a sea of colorful microbes

Features
November-December 2023

You Are What (Your Microbes) Eat

Diet, cooking, and the human microbiome

Illustration of a man looking through a pair of binoculars with three, not two, objective lenses

Right Now
May-June 2021

Is There Better Than Better?

Ellen Langer rejects binary thinking, embracing instead a “third way.”

Features
September-October 2022

“A Moral Obligation”

Charles Berlin and 60 years of collecting for Harvard Library

Fanciful illustration of plastic-eating microbes

Right Now
September-October 2023

Polishing off Plastic Pollution?

Engineering microbes to metabolize plastic waste