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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

A Window on Beijing

The Olympics focused global attention generally on air pollution in China, and particularly on air quality in Beijing.

Shanghai Central

Harvard on July 1 opened the newest in an expanding network of international offices, in Shanghai, and is scheduled to launch another in Beijing...

Rookie Redux

I realized that college was over when I opened up the large diploma case to show my family the product of four years’ labor and found...

by Liz Goodwin

Welcome, Fellows

Harvard Magazine’s Berta Greenwald Ledecky Undergraduate Fellows for the 2008-2009 academic year will be Brittney Moraski ’09 and Christian Flow ’10...

"Open to Difference"

Three alumnae rabbis help redefine an ancient calling...

Harvard Proponent

The Harvard Alumni Association’s new president is Walter H. Morris Jr. ’73, M.B.A. ’75...

by Nell Porter-Brown

Partnering with Survivors

Megan Berthold ’84 is director of research and a therapist for the Program for Torture Victims (PTV) in Los Angeles.

Self-Definition

Joel Derfner’s new book reveals some hidden depths.

Man with a Plan

Afam Onyema ’01 has a job that he wakes up “hungry” to pursue, that has become the passion of his life.

by Liz Goodwin

Aloian Scholars

Amanda Fields ’09, of Lowell House and Vista, California, and John Sheffield ’09, of Pforzheimer House and Fayetteville, North Carolina, are this year’s David Aloian Memorial Scholars.