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For This Poet, AI is a Writing Partner

Sasha Stiles trained a chatbot on her manuscripts. Now, her poems rewrite themselves.

by Lydialyle Gibson

College class of 2013 convocation ceremony starts a new tradition

Welcoming Harvard’s “fourth College class of ’13”

New York Film Festival program director Richard Peña

Richard Peña ’75 is program director of the New York Film Festival.

by Craig Lambert

Unicycling philanthropists

Philip Wharton ’82 and daughter Sophie ’11 pedal 100 miles for Afghan and Pakistani children.

by Krysten A. Keches

A risk-management plan to help prevent financial crises

Financial regulation, moral hazard, and the end of “too big to fail”

by David A. Moss

Shared Interest Groups

Forthcoming Shared Interest Group events

Baby boomers as volunteers

Alumni take up community service

by Nell Porter-Brown

The erosion of privacy in the Internet era

The erosion of privacy in the Internet era

by Jonathan Shaw

Why Harvard Needs to Get Harder

If courses aren't as exciting as extracurriculars, what’s a college for?

by Christian Flow

New Ledecky Undergraduate Fellows

Harvard Magazine’s new Berta Greenwald Ledecky Undergraduate Fellows

Smile Train’s Brian Mullaney

Smile Train's Brian Mullaney ’81 aims to correct cleft-palate deformities around the world.

by Nell Porter-Brown