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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

Harvard Economists' Take on the Financial Crisis

A new webpage aggregates the views of professors including Martin Feldstein, Gregory Mankiw, Kenneth Rogoff, and many others.

The Harvard Center for Gastrophysics?

Harvard science labs and master chef Ferran Adrià confect a mutually beneficial partnership.

by Elizabeth Gudrais

Second-Life Photography

A profile of cultural photographer Lee Smith

by Craig Lambert

A Yodel for Help in the Modern World

Playwright Christopher Durang, a “native American absurdist,” writes black comedies that turn painful events into hilarity.

by Craig Lambert

The Developing Child

With a new interdisciplinary center, Harvard turns its focus to the earliest years of life.

by Elizabeth Gudrais

Fernando Zóbel de Ayala

A brief profile of the peripatetic painter and philanthropist

by John Seed

Harvard Portrait - John Briscoe

John Briscoe will reestablish an engineering program at Harvard focused on water.

Mapping Africa

Africa Map, a project of Harvard’s Center for Geographic Analysis, brings GIS capabilities to research on the entire continent.

Decisionmaking, Measured

A new interdisciplinary decision-science lab will host experiments from psychology, economics, and beyond.

Life in Detail

Of archives, libraries, personal memories, and Sylvia Plath

by Brittney Moraski