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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

Jelani Nelson, Speeding Algorithms

A theorist explores the limits to shrinking datasets.

by Jonathan Shaw

Harvard research into vitamin D’s anti-cancer and health benefits

Two Harvard studies investigate the nutrient’s cancer-fighting properties.

by Sophia Nguyen

Mara Prentiss of Harvard says, for efficiency, electrify the energy economy

Why the United States may be on the cusp of an energy revolution

by Jonathan Shaw

Brief life of naturalist Thomas Nuttall, by John Nelson

Brief life of a pioneering naturalist: 1786-1859

by John Nelson

Harvard’s Sendhil Mullainathan on behavior and poverty

A behavioral economist’s fresh perspectives on poverty

by Cara Feinberg

Divest Harvard Protesters Blockade President Faust's Massachusetts Hall Office

Invoking history, activists call weeklong event the “lunch-counter moment for the twenty-first century.”

by Stephanie Garlock

Peabody museum curators discuss archaeology of Harvard Yard project

Archaeologists examine printing type found deep in Harvard Yard.

by Stephanie Garlock

Atticus Lish wins PEN/Faulkner for debut novel “Preparation for the Next Life”

He is honored for his debut novel, Preparation for the Next Life.