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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

Commencement Confetti

The 2018 rites in print and digital, M.D. on her toes, and more

President Drew Faust’s Harvard valedictory

President Faust’s Commencement afternoon valedictory address on hope and higher education

by Drew Gilpin Faust

The Undergraduate tours Harvard

What makes it “real”?

by Natasha Lasky

Harvard’s Elsie Sunderland maps invisible ocean pollutants

Elsie Sunderland traces the flows of human pollutants in the oceans. They come back to bite us.

by Courtney Humphries

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