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Öberg to Lead Harvard Faculty Recruitment and Retention
The astrochemist will become senior vice provost for faculty affairs this summer.
Diagnosis by Fiction
The “Healing Quartet” probes medicine—and life.
Making Space
The natural history of Junko Yamamoto’s art and architecture
How Birds Lost Flight
Scott Edwards discovers evolution’s master switches.
Winthrop Bell: Harvard Philosopher, MI6 Spy, and Early Forecaster of the Holocaust
Brief life of a philosopher and spy: 1884-1965
by Jason Bell
Board of Overseers and HAA Elected Director Candidates
The slates for this spring’s ballot
Reengineering Arts and Sciences
Spurring innovation, rethinking departments, tapping centers—and Ph.D. support
George Sarrinikolaou
Provost for climate and sustainability’s journey from Athens to Harvard
Computational Control of a Living Brain?
How an AI agent learned to guide an animal to food—and what it might mean for Parkinson’s patients.
Controlling AI Influence Over Consumers
When pricing algorithms take advantage of an individual’s ignorance, legal scrutiny is in order.
Cambridge 02138
The campus sundered, stem cell research, voting, and more