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The Health Benefits of Owning a Pet

Animal companions help their owners live longer, happier lives.

by Nancy Walecki

Ken Griffin’s Naming Gift for the Graduate School

Prominent donor further supports Harvard’s Faculty of Arts and Sciences.

by Jonathan Shaw

Save the Date: President Gay Installation

The University’s thirtieth president will be formally installed early in the fall term.

by John S. Rosenberg

Harvard Alumni Day Speaker Announced

NPR’s Mary Louise Kelly will address alumni June 2.

by Nell Porter-Brown

Learning from Indian Country

MASS Design’s Sustainable Native Communities Design Lab

by Mark Travis

“All Climate Change Is Local”

Assessing hurricane risk and climate adaptation in coastal Massachusetts

by Jonathan Shaw

An Academic Worker’s Union?

Organizing efforts and tough wage negotiations on campus

by Lydialyle Gibson

Enablers of the Unethical

A Harvard Business School professor turns the stage lights on the supporting cast that facilitates unethical acts

by Daniel Oberhaus

Trading Finance for Flowers

Cultivating local blooms in Upton, Massachusetts

by Nell Porter-Brown

Stories of a Not-So-Distant War

Novelist V.V. Ganeshananthan on writing diasporic fiction

by Bailey Trela

Building a Better World

MASS Design’s healing architecture

by Mark Travis

Roger Fu

A paleomagnetics scholar who uses ancient rocks to peer into the early lives of Earth and Mars

by Lydialyle Gibson