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Faculty Set to Vote on Grade Inflation Proposal

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

by Joanna M Weiss

Protesting, at Home and on the Streets

As demonstrations grow in the wake of George Floyd’s death, students mobilize against racism and police brutality

by Matteo Wong

At Home with Harvard: Racial Justice

Selections from Harvard Magazine's extensive coverage of racism, inequality, and incarceration

The Man in the Top Hat

A return to campus, to take in virtual graduation with friends

by Caroline Engelmayer

Harvard Graduate School of Design Class Day speaker Jenny Odell

Artist Jenny Odell speaks at the Graduate School of Design Class Day ceremony.

by Nell Porter-Brown

“To Heal and to Help”

Harvard medical- and dental-school graduates on the front lines of a worldwide crisis

by Lydialyle Gibson

“Disasters Sift out the Resilient”

At Harvard Business School’s virtual class day, a call for a new Marshall Plan

by Lydialyle Gibson

“The Work of the Public Health Leader Is the Work of the Herdsman”

Entering an era when “public health is everywhere”

by Matteo Wong

“Fear and Anger are the Essential Ingredients of Injustice”

At Harvard Law School, Bryan Stevenson on getting proximate to the powerless

by Marina N. Bolotnikova

“Stay in Your Cocoon!”

Conan O'Brien ’85 speaks to the Class of 2020

by Jacob Sweet

Harvard commencement degree conferral

During the pandemic, a downsized, online degree-conferral—and stern words about the war on free expression and Veritas

by John S. Rosenberg , Jacob Sweet