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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

Photograph of Harvard President Lawrence S. Bacow

A Vision for Post-Pandemic Harvard

Taking stock of a pandemic year, President Bacow sketches how Harvard might change—and where it will not. 

by John S. Rosenberg

Screen shot of students from 2020 Harvard virtual degree-granting ceremony

Harvard Commencement Virtual Again Ruth Simmons Speaker

The 370th degree-conferral will be online for the second consecutive year—with Ruth Simmons as guest speaker.

by John S. Rosenberg

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Baking Sourdough Bread is a Survival Instinct

A Harvard grandmother’s—and grandson’s—research

by Jacob Sweet

Proposed massing and configuration of new buildings on Harvard's enterprise research campus

Allston Research Campus Takes Form

Tishman Speyer details the first phase of the “enterprise research campus”—and points to a doubling of the project’s ultimate size.

by Jonathan Shaw

Photograph of posters displaying coronavirus rules at the entrance to Adams House dining hall.

A pandemic spring semester, policing reform, and more

Reports on the pandemic spring semester, policing reform, Allston enlargement, and cell-manufacturing

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The Undergraduate balances childhood and maturity

The Undergraduate balances childhood and maturity.

by Meena Venkataramanan

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Stephen Gray of Harvard Design School profiled by Jacob Sweet

Stephen Gray pioneers equitable urban design.

by Jacob Sweet

Portrait of Jeannie Suk Gersen, an elegantly dressed Korean American woman leaning against a stone archway.

Jeannie Suk Gersen of Harvard Law School, profiled by Lydialyle Gibson

Jeannie Suk Gersen on the law, trauma, and “the rhetoric of believing”

by Lydialyle Gibson

Photograph of a stout middle-aged woman seated at her desk, writing

Elizabeth Bangs Bryant

Brief life of an underappreciated arachnologist

by Reed Gochberg

Purple spruce cones

An organismic biologist praises reawakening to the natural world

Re-engaging with nature alongside the director of the Arnold Arboretum

by William Friedman