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Öberg to Lead Harvard Faculty Recruitment and Retention
The astrochemist will become senior vice provost for faculty affairs this summer.
Nuclear War in Korea? Eggs and Taxes More Urgent
Living calmly next to a rogue nuclear state
Alec Karakatsanis fights for criminal-justice reform in the U.S. legal system
Alec Karakatsanis puts “human caging” and “wealth-based detention” in America on trial.
A Life of Adventure and Delight
Akhil Sharma is less interested in ideology in itself than in politics as a backdrop to emotional conflict.
Harvard Glee Club and Radcliffe Choral Society members forge a lasting bond
Fifty years after they sang their way around the globe as undergraduates, they returned to Cambridge with full hearts and voices.
The First-Generation Gap
Advocating support for first-generation Harvard students
by Alisha Ukani
The polar vortex produced rapid evolution in lizards
How the polar vortex produced rapid evolution in lizards
Harvard field-hockey’s driving coach
Under coach Tjerk van Herwaarden, Harvard field hockey ascends.
Polaroid photographer and "The B-Side" subject Elsa Dorfman, profiled
Elsa Dorfman, BI ’73, looks back on her photography.
Brief life of Carl Thorne-Thomsen, Vietnam veteran from Harvard
Brief life of a man of principle: 1946-1967
Seeing the the Invisible World of Microbes
On Earth, microbes run the show.