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White envelopes with red symbols falling into a black ballot box against a red background.

Faculty Set to Vote on Grade Inflation Proposal

Results of the email ballot will be announced on May 20.

by Joanna M Weiss

Colorful composite drawing of the author, dressed in cap and gown, at home in Cambridge, with scenes of blossoming trees and a yellow moving truck visible through the window.

What I Learned From a Forced Return to Slowness

The pandemic sent a Harvard senior back to his hometown—just as the flowers started blooming.

by Drew Pendergrass

Photographs of the new student writing fellows Che Applewhaite and Mean Venkataramanan

Harvard Magazine’s 2020-2021 Ledecky Undergraduate Fellows

The 2020-2021 Ledecky Undergraduate Fellows

Andrew Berry stands at a podium.

Andrew Berry, Browns’ G.M., profiled by Dick Friedman

Football-tested and data-centric, Andrew Berry takes the helm in Cleveland.

by Dick Friedman

Illustration of a professor striving to keep up with a fast-walking elderly Hadza woman

Excerpt from “Exercised,” by Daniel E. Lieberman

A biological anthropologist explains why and how exercise works to combat senescence.

by Daniel E. Lieberman

Photograph of Professor Noah Feldman at House impeachment hearings, December 4, 2019

Constitutional scholar Noah Feldman profiled by Lincoln Caplan

Harvard Law School professor Noah Feldman’s constitutionalism is a branch of the humanities.

by Lincoln Caplan

Black journalist Claudia Jones on the phone in the offices of the “West Indian Gazette” in London

Claudia Jones

Brief life of an intersectional activist: 1915-1964

by Clarissa Atkinson

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

Computer science at Harvard in the 1960s and 1970s

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

by Harry R. Lewis

Adriana Colón, a casually dressed, smiling young woman with curly brown hair, sits in a doorway.

Profile of voiceover actor Adriana Colón

Adriana Colón forges aural connections.

by Matteo Wong

Headshot photograph of Ian K. Smith

Profile of novelist and TV doctor Ian K. Smith

Ian K. Smith’s turn toward detective fiction

by Lydialyle Gibson

Photograph of Harvard Yard

Balancing Mental Health and COVID Safety

Students urge closer attention to care on campus this fall. 

by Matteo Wong