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Woman in a navy dress smiling while standing on a walkway with a blurred background.

Öberg to Lead Harvard Faculty Recruitment and Retention

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

by Jonathan Shaw

A live sketch from Lori Vallow Daybell’s murder trial. Daybell is in the middle between two men, all looking somber.

Something from Nothing

Painter, animator, illustrator, and silhouettist Susan Bin

by Max J. Krupnick

Illustration of an armor-clad heart, resistant to bacterial attacks

Engineering Virus-free Cells… and Organs?

Harvard researchers have built bacteria resistant to viral infections. 

by Daniel Oberhaus

A formal portrait or José Olivarez in a gold chain and velvet suit jacket, standing amid red drapes and palm plants.

For the Homies

In José Olivarez’s poetry, the political is personal.

by Josie Abugov

Impatience Is a Virtue

Violinist-multitasker Sumire Hirotsuru

by Jacob Sweet

Graduate School students celebrating Commencement

Sunlight and Shadow

The 372nd Commencement was perfect, as the University prepares for a leadership transition.

by John S. Rosenberg

Portrait image of Walter Kim standing on a street with arms folded across his chest

A New Face of American Evangelicalism

Walter Kim aims for “a way forward even within difference.”

by Nell Porter-Brown

Honoris Causa

Harvard’s 2023 honorary-degree recipients

Two students pose in Harvard Stadium. One holds a basketball and the other holds a soccer ball.

Striving for the Straus Cup

The students who keep competition friendly

by Max J. Krupnick

First-Gen celebrants: Muska Fazilat, Melika Ahmadilari, Rehana Al-Soltane, and Jingwen Shan

Commencement Confetti

This and that from Harvard’s annual graduation extravaganza

An illustration of a young woman at an easel, holding a paintbrush and tracing a path while looking out across a landscape of other people following their own path

Uncharted Territory

A recent graduate thinks about what is means to take unconventional paths after Harvard.

by Josie Abugov