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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

Diversity, design engineering, and admissions in Harvard fall term

Morning Prayers and Freshman Convocation themes, economists’ exodus, health benefits round two, and reengineering admissions

by John S. Rosenberg

Survey finds nonconsensual sexual contact widespread

For Harvard, the results point in particular to a problem in the College.

by Jonathan Shaw

Harvard study: termite mounds circulate air, sneezing once a day

Physicists look into the function of towering termite mounds.

by Sophia Nguyen

Visualizing Broadway

Derek Miller hopes data will shake up the field of theater history.

by Jonathan Shaw

A long run in The Nutcracker, and the Blackout of '65

Nutcracker notes, and a memorable blackout

Daniel Aaron is profiled by Christoph Irmscher

Now in his second century, the uncommon Daniel Aaron remains at work.

by Christoph Irmscher

Brief life of scientific sleuth Joseph T. Walker, by Thomas W. Walker

Brief life of a scientific sleuth: 1908-1952

by Thomas W. Walker

Tim Murphy is Harvard’s greatest football coach

Harvard’s greatest football coach—and one of the best anywhere

by Dick Friedman

Adam Freudenheim brings world literature to young Anglophones

A publisher brings world literature to young Anglophones.

by Spencer Lee Lenfield

Ezra Pound's "Bloody Sestina" exhibit by Damon Krukowski at Carpenter Center

A Carpenter Center exhibition traces the history of a once-banned poem.

by Lydialyle Gibson