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Cover of Harvard 2023 annual financial report

A Smaller Surplus—and Endowment Returns Turn Positive

Harvard’s new financial team reports fiscal 2023 results.  

by John S. Rosenberg

Harvard football player runs with ball as Howard players try to stop him

Football 2023: Harvard 48-Howard 7

The Crimson rolls over the Bison; Princeton is next.

by Dick Friedman

Boy and girl uses VR goggles

Parenting Digital Kids

Surgeon General Vivek Murthy advises parents on child social media usage

by Max J. Krupnick

AI and Democracy

The implications for campaigns and elections raise concern

by Aden Barton

Cambridge 02138

Campus discourse, ethics education, affirmative action

Andrea Baccarelli

New Dean for Public Health

Environmental scientist and endocrinologist Andrea Baccarelli studies the biological impacts of pollution.

by Max J. Krupnick

Inclusive Design, Incisive Art

Amy Yoshitsu’s vision for change

by Claire Zulkey

Senior fellow Penny Pritzker and President Claudine Gay on stage during Gay’s installation

“Let Us Be Courageous Together”

Claudine Gay’s presidential installation

Illustration of a box containing a laid-off fossil fuel worker's office belongings

Preparing for the Energy Transition

Expect massive job losses in industries associated with fossil fuels. The time to get ready is now.

by Erin O’Donnell

Illustration for Harvard Lampoon cover showing a Harvard-Yale football game rendered in the style of the famous Bayeux Tapestry

Football: The Tapestry

David C.K. McClelland’s famous Lampoon cover

by Craig Lambert

Photographic portrait of Virginia Woolf

Shakespeare’s Uncanny Presence

Marjorie Garber explores the bard’s influence on the Bloomsbury Group.

Anna Schwartz at U.S. Treasury Department 1982

Anna Jacobson Schwartz

Brief life of a pioneering economist: 1915-2012

by Jennifer Burns