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Radcliffe Institute Announces 2026-2027 Fellows

Scholars will tap Harvard’s intellectual resources during the coming academic year.

by Olivia Farrar

Center for Health and Happiness established at Harvard

Research aims to discover whether happiness improves physical health.

by Elizabeth Gudrais

Andrew Myers develops modular antibiotic manufacture

New methods for manufacturing antibiotics aim to replenish a dwindling drug pipeline.

by Erin O’Donnell

Meet Matthew Wittmann, the new curator of The Harvard Theatre Collection

Cultural historian Matthew Wittmann makes a home at Harvard's performing-arts library.

by Sophia Nguyen

John Adams as a Harvard student, by Richard Alan Ryerson

What he learned and what he made of it

by Richard Alan Ryerson

Harvard Football Early Season Successes

A successful beginning of the football season

by Dick Friedman

Kathy Delaney-Smith, Harvard women's basketball coach, profiled

Basketball coach Kathy Delaney-Smith lives up to, and inspires, with her motto.

by David L. Tannenwald

Class picture: inside the pilot year of the Harvard Teacher Fellows

Harvard gets serious about training its graduates to teach in the classroom.

by Sophia Nguyen

Global Health at Home offers innovative techniques to improve U.S. medical care

Harvesting innovations from around the world to improve American medical care

by Howard Hiatt , Charles Kenney , Mark Rosenberg

Brief life of Alan Seeger, poet and soldier in World War I

Brief live of a premonitory poet: 1888-1916

by Dick Friedman

Death penalty critiqued by Carol and Jordan Steiker

Sibling scholars Carol Steiker and Jordan Steiker seek to change how America thinks about capital punishment.

by Lincoln Caplan