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NASA Astronaut Jonny Kim to Speak at Harvard in June

The American Navy SEAL, born to immigrants, is a doctor and a space traveler.

by Nell Porter-Brown

The Arnold Arboretum’s 10-year plan for plant collecting

Collecting expeditions race the anthropocene extinction to sample wild botanical diversity.

by Jonathan Shaw

Brief life of mathematician Nathaniel Bowditch

Brief life of a mathematician and businessman: 1773-1839

by Tamara Plakins ...

How Franklin Leonard became screenwriters' most effective “hype man”

Turning the Black List into a business, to modernize Hollywood’s dream machine

by Sophia Nguyen

Super PACs and their effect on U.S. presidential politics

How super PACs actually shape U.S. presidential politics

by Idrees Kahloon

Elizabeth Claire Walker, from the Los Angeles Ballet to Harvard and back

A ballet career, earned through college and cattle calls

by Maggie Shipstead

Excerpt from Amy Tuteur's "Push Back: Guilt in the Age of Natural Parenting"

Strong words from a combatant in the childbirth wars

Welfare promotes entrepreneurship, says Gareth Olds of Harvard Business School

Welfare promotes entrepreneurship, finds HBS researcher Gareth Olds.

by Lydialyle Gibson

Gloucester fisherman Russell Sherman is profiled

How Gloucester’s Russell Sherman got hooked

by Nell Porter-Brown

Emotional connections key to successful cross-disciplinary research

A new study finds that the most successful research teams are grounded in a group identity.

by Zara Zhang

Harvard Medalists of 2016

For “extraordinary service to the University”