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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

Remembering Towering Physicist Julian Schwinger (1918-1994)

At Jefferson Laboratory, Nobel Prize winners gather to remember one of their own.

by Jonathan Shaw

Symposium with Harvard alumni MLB executives

A Harvard-in-baseball symposium, just before spring training

by Lydialyle Gibson

Harvard Commencement exercises

Guidelines for the gala 2018

The building blocks of how babies reason

Research with infants suggests the ability to understand abstract relationships.

by Marina N. Bolotnikova

“Gorey’s World” at the Wadsworth Atheneum

Edward Gorey’s own art collection at the Wadsworth Atheneum

by Nell Porter-Brown

Sexual imprinting and speciation in deer mice

Mate choice is often controlled by genetics, but sometimes culture plays a role.

by Sophia Nguyen

Boston Roller Derby

Harvard ties to the increasingly popular, rigorous sport

by Nell Porter-Brown

Harvard Final-club Finality

The Corporation decides.

by John S. Rosenberg

Profile of photography curator Makeda Best

Focusing on the Harvard Art Museums’ new photography curator

by Sophia Nguyen