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Harvard Art Museums names a new curator

Horace D. Ballard will direct American art collections at the museums.

by Lydialyle Gibson

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

by Lawrence S. Bacow

Peabody Essex Museum’s “In American Waters”

From oceanic voyages to romping in the waves, a new exhibit explores relationships to water.

by Nell Porter-Brown

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.

by Jonathan Shaw

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

by S.I. Rosenbaum

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.

by Jonathan Shaw