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Graduate Student Union Schedules Strike

The work stoppage will begin October 27, unless a final bargaining session next week yields an agreement.

by Lydialyle Gibson

Harvard’s Rising Scholars Program Doubles in Size

A summer program helps students from under-resourced high schools close a hidden academic gap.

by Laurel M. Shugart

Remembering Jack Reardon

He was Harvard’s quintessential people person.

by Jonathan Shaw

Tarek Masoud Wins Honor For Exploring Disagreements

The Harvard Kennedy School professor has led inquiries into the polarizing conflicts in the Middle East.

by Laurel M. Shugart

Matt Freese ’22 Makes His World Cup Debut

The former economics concentrator brings his talent for crunching numbers to netminding.

by Olivia Farrar

Robert Coles Was Most at Home on the Playground

A colleague remembers the late Harvard professor and child psychiatrist, who died this month.

by Alex Harris

Harvard Alumni Win Big at 2026 Tony Awards

Graduates John Lithgow, Bill Rauch, and Bess Wohl took home prizes on Sunday night.

by Schuyler Velasco

The Harvard Doctor Who Made Kidney Transplants Possible

Nobel Prize recipient Joseph E. Murray dedicated much of his career to organ transplant surgery.

by Diane Speare Triant

Found in Translation

For both American and international students, growing up is like learning a new language.

by Andrés Muedano

What the ‘Other Face’ of the U.S.-Mexico Border Looks Like

Photographer and writer Morgan Smith chronicles life beyond the violence in Ciudad Juárez and other Mexican towns.

by Lydialyle Gibson

He Operates on Eyes. And He Operates a Racecar.

Harvard graduate and NASCAR racer Patrick Staropoli on pedals, attention, and fearlessness.

by Matt Crossman