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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

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

James Kloppenberg's masterwork on democracy reviewed

Reviewing a masterwork on the past, and future, of democracy

D.J. and experimental composer Jace Clayton discusses his new book, Uproot.

In Uproot, Jace Clayton ’97 explores technological trends in music around the globe.

by Lara Pellegrinelli

Plans to reform Board of Overseers’ election procedures

Plans to overhaul the Board of Overseers’ election procedures 

by John S. Rosenberg

Harvard alumni are honored for admissions work.

Seven alumni are honored for volunteer College admissions work.

Center for Health and Happiness established at Harvard

Research aims to discover whether happiness improves physical health.

by Elizabeth Gudrais