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Explore Harvard community news, alumni, faculty, students, and campus life. Curated stories and perspectives from Harvard Magazine.


Harvard Graduate Workers Begin Strike

In the second walkout in six months, union leaders call for better pay and benefits and a stronger grievance process.

by Lydialyle Gibson

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. 

by Lydialyle Gibson

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

by Marina N. Bolotnikova

Recent books with Harvard connections

John Kenneth Galbraith’s letters, Linda Greenhouse, color in art, and more

Better surgical procedures benefit amputees

Improved surgical techniques enhance prosthetic function.

by Erin O’Donnell

Harvard alumnus James Coe is a Hudson Valley painter and bird artist

Landscape and bird artist James Coe reflects the Hudson Valley

by Nell Porter-Brown

David Sinclair’s anti-aging science

Can a single molecule extend lifespan?

by Marina N. Bolotnikova

HAA's new president Susan Morris Novick

Harvard’s new alumni leader touts its global reach.

by Nell Porter-Brown

Ricardo Hausmann and colleagues develop a predictive tool for urban leaders

The combination of certain factors can determine whether a city is plagued with disease, or is a hub for innovation. 

by Oset Babür

Harvard satirized, critiqued, aflame

A fresh source for Harvard humor, a critique embedded in a memorium, and historic photos of a famous campus fire

by Primus VI