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Woman in a navy dress smiling while standing on a walkway with a blurred background.

Öberg to Lead Harvard Faculty Recruitment and Retention

The astrochemist will become senior vice provost for faculty affairs this summer.

by Jonathan Shaw

Genetics and the Human Revolution

Can advances in DNA sequencing help explain what makes us human? 

by Bennett McIntosh

A New Plant to Enhance Memory

Research links a Rhodiola rosea extract to enhanced memory.

by Oset Babür

Boston’s seasonal arts events

Boston’s open studios, holiday craft fairs, and more

by Nell Porter-Brown

Diversity and diminishing tax revenues: research by Marco Tabellini

Can public goods survive white flight?

by Marina N. Bolotnikova

The Undergraduate considers study abroad

The Undergraduate considers study abroad.

by Isa Flores-Jones

Saber champion Eli Dersh­witz looks to the 2020 Olympics.

Ranked first in the world, fencer Eli Dersh­witz looks to the 2020 Olympics.

by Lydialyle Gibson

Millicent Todd Bingham looks over her mother’s shoulder in this double portrait from 1931.

Millicent Todd Bingham

Brief life of an unlikely Dickinson scholar

by Julie Dobrow

Vamsi Mootha with an image from his lab showing thread-like mitochondria (green) moving within a cell.

Vamsi Mootha studies mitochondria and oxygen

Probing the mysteries of mitochondria, Vamsi Mootha discovers new ways to understand metabolic disease.

by Jonathan Shaw

Happy campers: For their team photo, a day or two after The Game, the Crimson wore practice jerseys, giving them rather a raffish look.

A melting pot: Harvard’s 1968 football team

How the Crimson squad from the immortal ’68 Game revealed a transforming Harvard

by George Howe Colt

Opera director Sarah Meyers, profiled by Jennifer Gersten

Opera director Sarah Meyers doesn’t want you to notice everything.

by Jennifer Gersten