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Öberg to Lead Harvard Faculty Recruitment and Retention

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

by Jonathan Shaw

Want Freshmen to Bond? Take Them on a Hiking Trip

Kenton Shimozaki ’19 reflects on lessons learned at Harvard’s First-Year Outdoor Program. 

by Kenton Shimozaki

Amelie Chai of SPiNE, an architect in Myanmar

Practicing architecture in Myanmar

by Sanya Sagar

Blake Family Ranch and Nursery

Working a cattle ranch and tree nursery in Big Sky country

by Nell Porter-Brown

Moorfield Storey, first president of the NAACP

Brief life of a patrician reformer: 1845-1929

by Geoffrey D. Austrian

Profile of Harvard Kennedy School historian Khalil Gibran Muhammad

Historian Khalil Gibran Muhammad studies one of the most powerful ideas in the American imagination.

by Lydialyle Gibson

Rage, reborn: profile of guitarist Tom Morello

With his supergroup Prophets of Rage, the musician faces down a president.

by Max Suechting

“Next steps”: profile of Paul Taylor dancer Madelyn Ho

Madelyn Ho pursued two tracks: modern dance, and getting her M.D.

by Samantha Maldonado

Harvard Graduate School of Arts and Sciences 2018 Centennial Medalists

Contributions to society from graduate research

2018 Harvard Medalists

For extraordinary service to the University

The Language of Emotion

Developmental psychologists find a surprising relationship between age and emotional understanding.

by Marina N. Bolotnikova