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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

A Gene Therapy Breakthrough

A uniquely interdisciplinary lab has developed a new technique to deliver targeted gene therapies.

by Jonathan Shaw

Convocation Welcomes Classes of 2024 and 2025 to Campus

President Bacow and Harvard College Dean Khurana welcome the Class of 2025 and, for the first time in-person, the Class of 2024.

by Lydialyle Gibson , Nancy Walecki

Highlighting Indigenous People’s “Connection to a Place”

The Harvard Alumni Association acknowledges links with Native people.

by Juliet Isselbacher

Harvard Scientists’ Leadership in Fighting Infectious Diseases

Dan Barouch awarded $24.5 million for HIV research, Marc Lipsitch named to national center for public health forecasting

by Jonathan Shaw

A Sister’s Plea for Her Brother’s Freedom

Rayhan Asat is speaking out against the imprisonment of her brother Ekpar, drawing attention to the plight of Uighurs in China.

by Juliet Isselbacher

Raising the Estimate of Sea Level Rise

The effect of post-glacial rebound was overlooked in the West Antarctic

by Nancy Walecki

Harvard Square’s Best

What’s new—and unchanged—in the historic heart of Cambridge

by Nell Porter-Brown

Why Some Citizens Reject Science

Bridging the gulf to science deniers

by Daniel Oberhaus

The Art of the Dean

The Faculty of Arts and Sciences leader’s plans before and beyond the pandemic

by John S. Rosenberg

Nicholas Stephanopoulos

An election-law scholar and litigator zeroes in on political gerrymandering.

by Lydialyle Gibson