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President Bacow speaking with Ruth Simmons at Prairie View A&M University

Acting on Slavery’s Legacy

A campus memorial, a senior adviser on engaging with HBCUs, reaching out to descendants, and teaching what has been learned

by Lydialyle Gibson

portrait of young girl surrounded by ornate gold-painted frame

Reframing American Art

Contextualized Spanish colonial works at the Harvard Art Museums

by Nell Porter-Brown

Usha Thakrar standing in the greenhouse production center at Stonefield Farm

“Something Is Very Broken”

Boston Area Gleaners fights hunger from the ground up.

by Nell Porter-Brown

Photograph of giant tube worms living near a hydrothermal vent in the Gulf of California

Plumbing the Deep Sea

Peter Girguis probes life on the ocean floor.

by Veronique Greenwood

James Stock

Seeking Climate Solutions

Teams of Harvard researchers have developed concrete proposals for addressing specific climate impacts.

by Jonathan Shaw

Illustration of a dollar bill with a head on one side and a heart on the other, exchanging hands

Making Charitable Giving More Competent

How psychological insight can make altruism more rewarding and effective

by Colleen Walsh

Realistic diorama of an old growth forest

The Harvard Forest Dioramas

Scenes of an ever-changing forest, in miniature

by Nancy Walecki

Vintage Harvard Square: a view in 1960

Off the Shelf

In love with Harvard Square, the invention of ICUs, Seamus Heaney

J.J.Carroll housing project in Brighton, with its clustered, offset buildings

Designing Good Lives

MASS Design’s domestic housing, health, and sustainability practice

by Mark Travis

Publisher Departs

A thank you for years of dedicated service

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Readers’ views about healthy diets, teachers off the tenure track, mitzvot, and more

Harvard students in caps and gowns

Commencement and Alumni Events 2023

Speakers, ceremonies, and celebrations