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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

Radcliffe gymsuits, pre-spandex

Lest young ladies’ “tides” be deranged

by Sophia Nguyen

Harvard’s 2018 Latin Orator on Hogwarts

Phoebe Lakin ’18 invokes J.K. Rowling.

Methuen Memorial Music Hall

Seasonal concerts at the Methuen Memorial Music Hall

by Nell Porter-Brown

Clinton, Raimondo at Commencement 2018

Radcliffe hosts Hillary Rodham Clinton, and the Rhode Island Rhodes Scholar’s modest roots

Underground: The Story of Harvard’s Class of 1968

A senior thesis, and a new film, on the “historic generational shift” of which the class of 1968 was a part.

by Lydialyle Gibson

Air quality’s critical impact on U.S. mortality rates

Harvard researchers revisit and reaffirm a controversial environmental study.

by Oset Babür

A celebration of Matthew Meselson

A symposium honors a scientist who championed biological and chemical weapons control.

by Jonathan Shaw

James Ryan, Harvard Education School’s departing dean, bids farewell with song

James Ryan, the Graduate School of Education’s departing dean, counsels its new graduates with song.

by Sanya Sagar

Risk-Taking Lizards

How lizards’ behavior influences natural selection

by Marina N. Bolotnikova

Hillary Clinton Receives Radcliffe Medal

The 2016 presidential candidate discusses her time at Wellesley, the crisis in American government, and the importance of raising empathetic children. 

by Marina N. Bolotnikova