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Explore Harvard community news, alumni, faculty, students, and campus life. Curated stories and perspectives from Harvard Magazine.
Faculty Set to Vote on Grade Inflation Proposal
Results of the email ballot will be announced on May 20.
At Home with Harvard: The Undergraduate
Our favorite student essays on the undergraduate experience
Colson Whitehead '91 wins 2020 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction
The Nickel Boys wins the 2020 prize for fiction.
At Home with Harvard: The Real History of Women at Harvard
A selection of stories covering the admission of women, the Harvard-Radcliffe merger, the rise of women in the faculty ranks, Harvard’s first woman president, and more
The Pandemic's Unequal Toll
A Radcliffe Institute online discussion of health disparities laid bare by coronavirus
Starlink
Seniors hunker down in communal quarantine.
by Eve Driver
Building a Better COVID-19 Swab
Engineers at the Wyss Institute address a critical shortage of nasal swabs.
Alone on Harvard’s Campus
Most days, I see no one at all.
by Jeremy Tsai
At Home with Harvard: The Climate Crisis
Highlights from our wide-ranging coverage of the environment
At Home with Harvard: Rewriting History
From race and colonization to genetics and paleohistory, our favorite stories about the people reshaping the study of history
Letting Go of the “Ideal” Classroom
“The ‘ideal’ classroom never existed anyway, at least not in a perfectly equitable manner,” writes Julie Chung ’20.
by Julie Chung