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A group of protesters holding signs marches past a gated entrance on a sunny day.

Graduate Student Union Schedules Strike

The work stoppage will begin October 27, unless a final bargaining session next week yields an agreement.

by Lydialyle Gibson

An illustration showing a donkey and an elephant, representing the Democratic and Republican parties, wrestling.

Making America Competitive Again

Can election reforms end the crippling gridlock in American politics?

by Erin O’Donnell

Head shots of the four Centennial Medalists: Lotte Bailyn, John Hutchinson, Marvin Kalb, and Margaret McIntosh

Harvard Arts and Sciences Centennial Medalists

For graduate studies that contributed to society

A photomontage showing how, when a whole panther worm is cut in two, the parts heal, form regeneration, and then develop into two complete panther worms.

Could Regenerative Biology Work in Humans?

Mansi Srivastava’s basic research seeks to uncover the origins of whole-body regeneration in animals.

by Aleksandra Prochera

Graduates Head to the Other Cambridge

Four win scholarships for study in England.

An illustration of the crumpled front end of a car that has been in an accident with mountains that are the result of crumpling of Earth's crust, rising in the background

How Paper Crumples

The research provides insight into the way materials react to repeated strain.

by Steve Nadis

The New Overseers and HAA Elected Directors

Harvard Forward gains a fourth seat on the Board of Overseers.

Screen shot of Harvard President Bacow and deans applauding graduates.

Virtual Graduation 2.0

Harvard’s second, more expansive online graduation, with honorands and more

by John S. Rosenberg

Three headshots, of Harvard Medalists Walter K. Clair, Nancy-Beth Gordon Sheerr, Preston N. Williams

2021 Harvard Medalists

Harvard alumni honored for extraordinary service to the University

The 2021 Honorands

An honorable tradition resumes, virtually.

Portrait photograph of Sidney Verba

Sidney Verba, and a classy class reporter

Harvard’s mensch, and a record-setting recorder of Crimson lives

by Primus VI