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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

Sunlit library room at the Boston Atheneum

The New Boston Athenaeum

Find “the joy of discovery and power of this unique place.”

by Nell Porter-Brown

A black-and-white portrait of a smiling person with wavy hair, wearing a beaded necklace.

Defeating the Darkness

After decades of mystery, a family reunion

by Brian Palmer

Justice Edward Sanford portrait, modified to depict him as a baseball player

Harvard Alumni Association President Bob Bowie Jr.

An admissions odyssey, the search for “Casey,” and a Harvard legislative legacy

by Primus VI

Illustration suggesting how technologies may influence undergraduate writing

“AI Anxiety”

The Undergraduate on the uneasy collision of technology and writing

by Serena Jampel

Harvard 2025 Overseer and HAA Directed Slates

This year’s governing board and  alumni association candidates

Toussaint Miller in a dark sweater plays the trumpet on stage with eyes closed.

Music and Medicine

Toussaint Miller explores the healing power of art.


by Lydialyle Gibson

Graduates in caps and gowns hold inflatable globes at an outdoor ceremony with red banners in the background.

Harvard University’s 373rd Commencement Excercises

Commencement and Alumni Day schedules

A condemned inmate returns to his cell in the east block of death row at California’s San Quentin State Prison

The Supreme Court and Mass Incarceration

A legal scholar’s harsh assessment of the Supreme Court’s rulings on crime

by Lincoln Caplan

close-up of VADM Shoshana Chatfield at NATO meeting

U.S. Navy Vice Admiral Shoshana Chatfield

U.S. Navy vice admiral on the frontlines at NATO

by Nell Porter-Brown

A violinist in a green shirt plays on stage, smiling, with microphones and stage lighting in the background.

Works by Archaic Greek Poets Set to Music

Millennia-old Greek lyrics ring out again in twenty-first-century pop music.

by Craig Lambert