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Proposed massing and configuration of new buildings on Harvard's enterprise research campus

Allston Research Campus Takes Form

Tishman Speyer details the first phase of the “enterprise research campus”—and points to a doubling of the project’s ultimate size.

by Jonathan Shaw

Portrait photograph of Harvard president Lawrence S. Bacow

The View from Mass Hall

President Bacow on speech on campus

by Lawrence S. Bacow

7 Ware Street Diverging Ivies

What Ivy institutions’ diverging paths reveal

Letters from our readers

Acupuncture, climate change, renaming

Two hanging bird feeders plus a hanging nesting basket dangle from a tree branch.

Spruce up your own outdoor spaces

Turning your al fresco space into a springtime oasis

by Kara Baskin

In a still from "The Painter and the Thief," the male thief watches the female artist at work.

Recommended 2020 films to see online

A short list of fine documentaries and feature films 

by Nell Porter-Brown

Photo of a cheerleader group composed of elderly women, all in red tops and white skirts, with pompoms

“Some Kind of Heaven,” a documentary by Lance Oppenheim

Documentarian Lance Oppenheim explores life in The Villages.

by Alex Huls

Purple spruce cones

An organismic biologist praises reawakening to the natural world

Re-engaging with nature alongside the director of the Arnold Arboretum

by William Friedman

Adams House exit, IOP adviser removed, admissions avalanche, and more

Adams House changing of rhe guard, Institute of Politics controversy, an avalanche of applications, and more

An evocative illustration that incorporates musical notation into the familiar double helix of DNA

Using DNA for data storage

Compact and persistent, DNA could one day compress all human knowledge into a 15-gallon drum.

by Steve Nadis

A detailed 1598 map of Iceland, with monstrous sea creatures in the surrounding waters and polar bears on ice flows.

How cartographers filled “empty” space with animals

The era of imaginative mapmaking

by Marina N. Bolotnikova

Photograph of author Justin Deabler

“Lone Stars”—an HLS grad’s semi-autobiographical debut novel

Fiction about “the power that comes to us when we uncloset ourselves”

by Lydialyle Gibson