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Harvard Art Museums names a new curator
Horace D. Ballard will direct American art collections at the museums.
Letters from our readers
A standard-setter retires—plus U.S. presidential debates, Overseer elections, admissions biases
A New Way
President Bacow on exploring better work-life balance after the pandemic
Peabody Essex Museum’s “In American Waters”
From oceanic voyages to romping in the waves, a new exhibit explores relationships to water.
Civic leaders, and myths about undergraduate teaching
Corporation members’ civic-mindedness, and undergraduate education at research universities
Probing the Microbial World Within Us
Emily Balskus deciphers the human microbiome.
News Briefs: Important University Updates
A large leap in the smallest science, decarbonization debates, admissions lawsuit
How Paper Crumples
The research provides insight into the way materials react to repeated strain.
by Steve Nadis
Sidney Verba, and a classy class reporter
Harvard’s mensch, and a record-setting recorder of Crimson lives
by Primus VI
A Surfing Author’s Children’s Book
In the swim with Bonnie Tsui
Harvard Graduate Leads in NBA Analytics
Jason Rosenfeld ’12 traces his path to sports-statistics success.
by Jacob Sweet
Namwali Serpell
The professor of English is also a novelist and a critic.