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Life’s Blueprints

The development of developmental biology

by Jonathan Shaw

Getting Close, in Selma

Acting at a moment of conscience

by Drew Gilpin Faust

Campus Conversations on Speech

Some faculty members and students express concern that free inquiry has become constrained.

by Jonathan Shaw

Reading the Tea Leaves

The messages and meanings of Harvard’s presidential installations

Speaking Volumes

Glimpsing Harvard’s East Asian language materials collection

by Nell Porter-Brown

The New Crew

The 2023-24 Ledecky Undergraduate Fellows. 

The Men Who Can’t Be Saved

Novelist Ben Purkert’s playfully serious look at masculinity

by Stuart Miller

Honoring Alumni Interviewers

Miller-Hunn Award recipients

New Digs

Claudine Gay’s first day in her presidential office

Everyday Indigeneity

Championing Native voices

by Ryan Doan-Nguyen

“Shotgun” Diagnosis

The virtues of inaction in delivering medical care

Tracing the Enslaved to Modern Descendants

A new technique for connecting ancient DNA to living relatives may have implications for institutions with legacies of slavery.

by Jonathan Shaw