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


Is the Press Still Free?

A Harvard alumni panel discusses New York Times Co. v. Sullivan and threats to journalists today.

by Olivia Farrar

Technology columnist Geoffrey Fowler: a profile

Geoffrey Fowler tackles the “great reckoning” with privacy.

by Jacob Sweet

Harvard first-gen alumni stories

Alumni describe their challenges in leaving home and coming to the College.

by John S. Rosenberg

Harvard Treasure: Hasty Pudding Posters

“Shingles” and other art of the Hasty Pudding from the Harvard Theatre Collection.

by Jonathan Shaw

The Harvard Cabin on Mount Washington

The Harvard Mountaineering Club’s Mount Washington cabin

by Nell Porter-Brown

The A.R.T.’s “Gloria: A Life“

“Gloria: A Life,” at the American Repertory Theater

by Nell Porter-Brown

Systems biology helps develop a promising diagnostic

A potential “paradigm shift” in developing new diagnostic tests in mental health

by Erin O’Donnell

David Deming on tuition-free public college underwritten by existing funds

David Deming says existing federal higher-education subsidies, if redeployed, could make public colleges free.

by Cherone Duggan

Demographic distortions will require eldercare solutions

Can technology coupled with cultural understanding improve the health and wellness of the elderly?

by Jonathan Shaw

Harvard Portrait: Shawon Kinew

Connecting European Old Masters with the new landscape of art history 

by Marina N. Bolotnikova

Finding beauty in the complexities of applied science

The Undergraduate finds beauty in the complexities of applied science.

by Drew Pendergrass