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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

Crowdsourcing solutions

Harvard’s Crowd Innovation Lab studies what motivates crowds to solve problems.

by Michael Fitzgerald

Tax Collection and Civil Society

Paying Pakistani tax collectors for better performance to increase tax revenue

by Marina N. Bolotnikova

Evolution unleashed

David R. Liu has harnessed evolution to lab experiments.

by Jonathan Shaw

Strong growth in Harvard sciences enrollment

The swift growth in undergraduate quantitative-science concentrators

by John S. Rosenberg

Meet Heather Henriksen, director of the Harvard Office for Sustainability

Harvard’s chief sustainability officer on scaling up green solutions while scaling back its environmental footprint

by Lydialyle Gibson

Harvard studies how spirituality affects patients’ experience at the end of life

A Harvard initiative studies how spirituality affects patients’ experience at the end of life

A Harvard undergraduate moves off campus

Moving off campus, and growing up

by Lily Scherlis

Jennifer Lewis's quest for a 3-D printed kidney

3-D-printing pioneer Jennifer Lewis aims to fabricate replacement organs.

by Lydialyle Gibson

Deidre Lynch on Jane Austen and loving literature

Deidre Lynch on the cult of Jane Austen and the complexities of loving literature

by Spencer Lee Lenfield

How surveillance changes people’s behavior

Assaults on privacy and security in America threaten democracy itself.

by Jonathan Shaw