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Explore Harvard community news, alumni, faculty, students, and campus life. Curated stories and perspectives from Harvard Magazine.


For This Poet, AI is a Writing Partner

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

by Lydialyle Gibson

Love’s Labors

Experiencing new partners in the second half of life

by Nell Porter-Brown

News and Notices

Comings and Goings; Return to Harvard Day; and a special notice regarding Harvard's Commencement Exercises

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.