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People outside at art vendors' stalls at the RISD Craft fair

Staff Pick: RISD Craft Fair

Artists showcase their work in Providence, Rhode Island. In the foreground are pieces by Dwo Wen Chen/Three Wheel Studio. 

by Nell Porter-Brown

Covers of The Dial magazine

Dialed In

“The Dial,” reborn

by Nancy Walecki

Illustration of housing outside a central city

State-Sponsored Discrimination

The role of zoing law and housing in making America more unequal—and what to do about it

“This global, diverse, vibrant community”

Alumni Association President Ty Moore

by Nell Porter-Brown

Illustration of two teams working together. One is well-coordinated, the other is not.

Picking Team Players

A test can identify these productivity-boosting personnel.

by Max J. Krupnick

Illustration of Massachusetts Hall, Harvard president’s office

Presidents’ Paths

Life decisions en route to Massachusetts Hall

by Primus VI

Illustration depicting blueprints of life, from a single cell to a whole human body

Life’s Blueprints

The development of developmental biology

by Jonathan Shaw

A March 1, 1965, civil rights meeting at Selma’s Brown Chapel A.M.E. Church

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

Installation photos of Harvard presidents Lawrence Summers, Drew Gilpin Faust, and Lawrence Bacow

Reading the Tea Leaves

The messages and meanings of Harvard’s presidential installations

Scroll depicting Commodore Perry’s 1853 invasion of Japan

Speaking Volumes

Glimpsing Harvard’s East Asian language materials collection

by Nell Porter-Brown

The New Crew

The 2023-24 Ledecky Undergraduate Fellows.