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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

2019 Alumni Clubs and SIGs Awards

A celebration of notable alumni and shared interest groups

Harvard Portrait: Amy Wagers

The skydiving Forst Family professor studies the pathophysiology of aging.

by Oset Babür

2019 Overseer and HAA Director Candidates

The official 2019 slates

Launching Gen Ed, rethinking shopping week

Harvard College Gen Ed curriculum nears, and faculty members rethink course registration.

by John S. Rosenberg

Harvard Commencement exercises 2019

Guidelines for this year’s May gala

Disadvantaged students in elite colleges

Anthony Jack’s new book on the “doubly disadvantaged”

by John S. Rosenberg

A Crossroads in Biomedicine?

Uncertainty and humanity could be key to addressing the reproducibility crisis.

by Bennett McIntosh

Dolores Huerta to Receive Radcliffe Medal

The labor rights organizer will be honored on May 31. 

This Year’s Overseer and HAA Director Candidates

The official nominees for 2019 are announced.

The Examined Life

Why is it that so many doctors feel compelled to write, and that so many do, so compellingly? 

by Jonathan Shaw