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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

The Art of Lighting and Sound Design

Theater technicians Finn Bamber and Clay Oxford bring Harvard theater to life.

by Nancy Walecki

Home, Harvard, and (Im)permanence

The complicated return to campus post-pandemic

by Sofia Andrade

An Exchange of Violence

On the “exit wounds” of America’s gun industry in Mexico

by Lydialyle Gibson

Sarah Karmon to Lead Alumni Association

An HAA veteran will succeed Philip Lovejoy as executive director.

by John S. Rosenberg

We Remember WWI

Alums’ remarkable memories of World War I,  revisited this Veterans Day

by Adam Goodheart

The Power of Plants

Exploring the “plant humanities” at Harvard’s Dumbarton Oaks

by Jonathan Shaw

Hansjörg Wyss Gives $350 Million to Bioengineering Institute

The philanthropist makes a fourth gift to support basic and translational research.

by John S. Rosenberg

Three Harvardians Awarded 2022 MacArthur "Genius" Grants

A mathematician, a chemist, and a professor of medicine who studies the health effects of incarceration

by Nancy Walecki

Ben S. Bernanke ’75 Shares Economics Nobel

Three scholars honored for work on banking and financial crises.

by John S. Rosenberg

Science Surges

Fostering businesses within enginnering and applied sciences, Amazon’s quantum support, and changing concentrations