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Öberg to Lead Harvard Faculty Recruitment and Retention

The astrochemist will become senior vice provost for faculty affairs this summer.

by Jonathan Shaw

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Harvard Historians on Trump

Harvard historians’ Supreme Court brief 

by Max J. Krupnick

Meghan O'Sullivan 

Geopolitics and the Energy Transition

International relations during the shift to a net-zero economy

by Jonathan Shaw

Map depicting the two sites of two cousins: one lived in central Mongolia, the author in southern Russia

Cousins in the Ancient World

Long-distance human migration and population bottlenecks revealed in ancient DNA

by Jonathan Shaw

Greg Stone poses in front of trees

Greg Stone, An Emerging Novelist at 70

Late-life inspiration leads to pulpy noir novel

by Lydialyle Gibson

A conceptual illustration of a student seated in a classroom facing an imagined image of herself in a different environment with flowers and rocks

Is Pedagogy About Us?

Questioning the intellectual rigor of bringing identity into the classroom

by Isabella Cho

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Solving Dehydration

A simple solution that saved millions

by Max J. Krupnick

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The Tangible Past

How Philip C. Mead enlivens American history

by Nell Porter-Brown

Amanda Moreno Garcia stands in front of hospital

Battling Eating Disorders

A medical student’s cause

by Lindsay Mitchell

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Democracy Endangered

American democracy endangered by minority rule

A smiling woman with brown hair next to three book covers

Living the Science Fiction Fantasy

Novelist Catherine Asaro’s space operas

by Lydialyle Gibson