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Jason Furman to Lead Center for Business and Government

The new director of Harvard Kennedy School’s Mossavar-Rahmani Center bridges economic research and policy.

by Jonathan Shaw

President Bacow's Harvard Baccalaureate Remarks

“This has not been a typical year”—but a tradition resumes, virtually.

by Lawrence S. Bacow

Popping the Harvard Bubble

A senior’s last semester expands her sense of adventure and personhood.

by Meena Venkataramanan

Harvard Requires Student Vaccination for Fall

President Bacow releases directive to the community.

by John S. Rosenberg

Jeremy Lin to Speak at Harvard College Class Day

The former NBA star headlines the undergraduates’ virtual celebration May 26.

by John S. Rosenberg

The Context: Daniel Lieberman on Food Addiction

Framing the news with our best articles on diet and health

by Jacob Sweet

Harvard to Launch Quantum Science and Engineering Ph.D. Program

Renovation of 60 Oxford Street will create a quantum hub where theorists and engineers work side by side.

by Jonathan Shaw

A Net-Zero-Energy Victorian Home Makes History

HBS alumna Betsy Harper develops the first net-zero-energy, Victorian “passive house” in the world.  

by Kristina DeMichele

Kevin Young Addresses Harvard Alumni Association

The acclaimed poet and director of the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture will speak at the annual meeting on June 4—and other graduation-week speakers are announced. 

by John S. Rosenberg

Harvard Alumni Medalists Announced

Alumni Association announces Harvard Medalists.  

by Nell Porter-Brown

Financial and mental health are linked

Around the globe, Vikram Patel finds, improvements in financial or mental health support both.

by Veronique Greenwood