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Öberg to Lead Harvard Faculty Recruitment and Retention
The astrochemist will become senior vice provost for faculty affairs this summer.
Jazz and blues bassist Matthew Berlin
Avocational bassist Matthew Berlin
Profile of novelist Yangsze Choo
Malaysian-born Yangsze Choo writes novels infused with the tropical mysteries of her childhood.
New York immigration activist Steven Choi
Steven Choi, J.D. ’04, works—and fights—at the vitriolic epicenter of immigration politics.
“Write Your Own Songs”
An Oscar-nominated collaboration
by Olivia Munk
And the Academy Award Goes to…Math
Ben Zauzmer '15 tackles Oscars predictions, with math.
by Jacob Sweet
Harvard faculty vote, governing board divestment
FAS votes for divestment, and perhaps a contending Overseers’ slate
A Gut Renovation for U.S. Labor Law
A Harvard Law School initiative calls for rewriting labor law “to shift power from corporations to workers.”
Human impact on New England ecology was minimal before Europeans arrived
Before Europeans arrived in New England, local ecology was driven by climate shifts, not by human interventions.
Harvard Overseer election and divestment
The spring-semester agenda on climate-change advocacy takes shape—on campus and beyond.
Astronomers name interstellar “ripple” the “Radcliffe Wave”
The massive “Radcliffe Wave” traces a new map of the sky.