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Öberg to Lead Harvard Faculty Recruitment and Retention

The astrochemist will become senior vice provost for faculty affairs this summer.

by Jonathan Shaw

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Quiet Conversations that Defined Harvard During a Viral Year

The quiet conversations that defined Harvard during a viral year

by Isabella Cho

Harvard Magazine Reader's Letters

Master Finley, whales’ speech, Harvard values

A cube of uranium from Nazi Germany

A Block of Nazi Uranium at Harvard

Proof of a secret Nazi nuclear project

by Max J. Krupnick

Senator Warren and Representative Ayanna Pressley with Harvard Democrats members in front of campaign signs for their re-election.

Harvard Students Campaign in 2024 Election

Harvard students and the 2024 election

by Max J. Krupnick

Serena Jampel (left) and Yasmeen Khan (right)

Meet Harvard Magazine’s Ledecky Fellows

The 2024-2025 Undergraduate columnists

Covers of Harvard and Radcliffe College class of 1954 seventieth reunion class reports

How Harvard Has Evolved

Alumni perspectives on Harvard in crisis, and signs of a changed community

by Primus VI

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Higher Education Reform and the SAT

Nicholas Lemann on revising standardized testing to address real educational needs

Richard Beck sitting indoors beside a potted plant, hands clasped, looking at the camera.

In 'Homeland,' n+1 writer Richard Beck excavates the War on Terror

How the War on Terror reshaped American life

by Nina Pasquini

Clockwise from top left: Karen Lorry Chapman, George T. Hodakowski, Bill Parsons, Candace Plummer Gaudiani, Margaret M. Chin, Mark G. Pelletier, John J. Moon, and Carole Turner Reading

Harvard Miller-Hunn Awards

Miller-Hunn awardees

Collage of Chef Nisha Vora in the kitchen preparing a dish, a bowl of sticky coconut-milk-braised tofu over rice, and a plate of buttermilk-fried “chicken” with cornbread and dilly slaw.

From Harvard Law Books to Vegan Cookbooks

Nisha Vora’s vegan journey

by Claire Zulkey