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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

Race in a Genetic World

“I am an African American,” says Duana Fullwiley, “but in parts of Africa, I am white.” To do fieldwork as a medical...

The Aging Brain

Looking at the effects of aging on healthy people's brains...

Scanning the Social Sciences

Letters have gone out inviting senior faculty members from across the University, nominated by the deans of their respective schools, to...

Climate Change Solutions?

Electrochemcial weathering: a new CO2 mitigation strategy...

by Erin O’Donnell

Harvard faculty and alumni engage with China

China disorients the visitor. The scale and bustle of its cities—propelled by the greatest economic growth and urban migration in...

Flocking to Finance

Recent graduates may take for granted the migration of one-fifth of their classmates into finance-sector jobs, but things haven’t always...

by Elizabeth Gudrais

Getting My Feet Wet

I remember many things from my cousin’s wedding—my poofy bridesmaid’s dress, the humidity, how pretty the small church looked...

by Liz Goodwin

Sleuths in Love

Screenwriter turned novelist Eric Lerner ’71 finds his voice...

by Craig Lambert

Fishing for Answers

Photograph by Ralf-Finn Hestoft Neil Shubin and Tiktaalik In 2005, parents and school officials in Dover, Pennsylvania, were locked in a...

by Nell Porter-Brown

Underground Party

Commuters making their way through the underground corridors of the sprawling Times Square subway station in Manhattan now have some...