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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

Rethinking liberal arts Yale-NUS, Minerva

Yale-NUS, Nicholas Lemann, and Minerva remodel liberal arts for the twenty-first century.

by John S. Rosenberg

Tahmima Anam's "The Bones of Grace" excavates history and family

Tahmima Anam’s Bengal trilogy finds a resting place.

by Marina N. Bolotnikova

Joan C. Williams on "class cluelessness"—a book review by Andrea Louise Campbell

A review of Joan Williams’s powerful book on the resentments reshaping American politics

by Andrea Louise C...

Recent books with Harvard connections

Beach reading, the West, segregation, gardening with children, and more

Federal funding at risk

The administration’s potentially costly misunderstanding about science

by John S. Rosenberg

The role of a “Posse” in higher education

Harvard alumna Debbie Bial's Posse Foundation and a “new national leadership pipeline”

by Nell Porter-Brown

A Harvard sociologist studies how veganism went from tasteless to trendy

Studying how a movement went from activist activity to aspirational lifestyle

by Sophia Nguyen

Harvard Graduate School of Arts and Sciences Centennial Medalists of 2017

Honorands whose contributions to society emerged from graduate study

How U.S. companies stole American jobs

Domestic outsourcing, not globalization, has redefined employer-employee ties.

by Oset Babür

The Harvard Medalists of 2017

Honorees include an architect, athletics enthusiast, and longtime University administrator.