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Explore Harvard community news, alumni, faculty, students, and campus life. Curated stories and perspectives from Harvard Magazine.


Graduate Student Union Schedules Strike

The work stoppage will begin October 27, unless a final bargaining session next week yields an agreement.

by Lydialyle Gibson

Harvard Single-Gender Club Rules Rescinded

Facing legal challenges, the University does away with its controversial regulations on final clubs, fraternities, and sororities.

by John S. Rosenberg

Calhoun-Fall

The rise and fall of Charleston’s John C. Calhoun statue, a monument to white supremacy 

by Peter H. Wood

At Home with Harvard: Inequality in America

Selections from Harvard Magazine’s extensive coverage of wealth and income inequality 

How Harvard Handled the 1918 Flu Pandemic

Fall semester interrupted, a century ago

by Matteo Wong

How the Lines Get Bent

Curator Garrett Dash Nelson ’09 on the Boston Public Library’s exhibition of “persuasive cartography” 

by Matteo Wong

The Pandemic’s Economic Fallout

How the COVID-19 economic crisis has been fundamentally different from past recessions

by Matteo Wong

At Home with Harvard: Pride Month

Stories on LGBTQ life, research, and history at Harvard

Harvard Scientists #Strike4BlackLives

Academia’s reckoning with anti-black racism

by Lydialyle Gibson

Searching for a COVID-19 vaccine

The when and how of vaccines

by Jonathan Shaw

Harvard’s VirScan exposes viral vulnerabilities

A serological test may reveal the COVID-19 virus’s weaknesses—and expose its strategic decoys.

by Bennett McIntosh