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Öberg to Lead Harvard Faculty Recruitment and Retention
The astrochemist will become senior vice provost for faculty affairs this summer.
Plumbing the Deep Sea
Peter Girguis probes life on the ocean floor.
Comedy with a Conscience
Jimmy Tingle’s political humor in a polarized era
Finding the Movie
Screenwriter Julian Breece on “writing from the soul”
Stories of a Not-So-Distant War
Novelist V.V. Ganeshananthan on writing diasporic fiction
by Bailey Trela
The Modern World Reconceived
Interpreting politics through the rise of technocracy, morality, and the “web of capital”
“Something Is Very Broken”
Boston Area Gleaners fights hunger from the ground up.
Albanian Joins the Language Curriculum
Harvard is the only Ivy League institution to offer the rare European language.
Hume, Heaney, Harvard—and Peace in Northern Ireland
In life and literature, living “dangerously out between” opposing factions while seeking common ground
Improving Accessibility
A Harvard Kennedy School panel raises unnoticed policy issues.
Commencement Celebrity: Tom Hanks to Address Graduates
The actor and filmmaker will be Harvard’s guest speaker on May 25.