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What a Key EPA Repeal Means for America’s Climate Future

A Harvard alumni panel examines the impact of the “Endangerment Finding.”

by Olivia Farrar

Derek Reist's painting <i>Downtown Gold</i>

Cityscapes by Derek Reist feature sunlight and shadow

Sunlight and shadow star in Derek Reist’s urban landscapes.

by Steve Potter

The Atlantic’s Scott Stossel on anxiety

Scott Stossel ’91 probes anxiety in a personal, revealing, and funny book about a serious subject.

Poet and physician Rafael Campo relaxes at home with a book.

Alterrnative Medicine, poetry book by physician Rafael Campo

Rafael Campo, M.D., straddles medicine and metonymy.

by Stephen Burt

Seedpods of <i>Magnolia x soulangeana</i> (dispersed by animals)

Seedpod photographs by Anna Laurent

Little packages of DNA that explode with beauty

by Craig Lambert

Citizen science draws amateurs into scientific research

In the Internet era, research moves from professionals’ labs to amateurs’ homes.

by Katherine Xue

While being evicted from her Milwaukee apartment, Danielle Shaw (left) and relatives wait until the movers carrying down her refrigerator and stove are no longer blocking the stairwell.

Harvard sociologist Matthew Desmond on evictions

Sociologist Matthew Desmond studies eviction and the lives of America’s poor.

by Elizabeth Gudrais

Conor Walsh&rsquo;s lab is designing a robotic &ldquo;exosuit&rdquo; to aid human movement; soft and lightweight, it can be worn under clothes.

Harvard engineers design soft robotic exosuits to aid human movement

Harvard engineers build soft exosuits to aid human movement.

by Katherine Xue

Yochai Benkler

Balancing Security and Freedom in a Democracy

Harvard law professor Yochai Benkler says acts of conscience are integral to balancing security and freedom.

Five Harvard seniors and one graduate will attend Oxford University in October 2014.

Six Harvard students win Rhodes Scholarships

Five seniors and one graduate will attend Oxford in 2014.

Holyoke Center—renamed the Richard A. and Susan F. Smith Campus Center—will be transformed into a new campus center beginning in 2016.

Harvard's Holyoke Center to become Smith Campus Center

The Smith Campus Center will open in 2018.