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Harvard Closes Classes Coronavirus

Students transition to online learning—perhaps for the rest of the semester—and are asked not to return after spring break.

by John S. Rosenberg

Ask a Harvard Professor with David Cutler

Fixing the U.S. healthcare system, with David Cutler, Eckstein professor of applied economics and professor in the department of global health and population at the Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health

Remembering Henry Cobb, Architect of CGIS

The celebrated architect and Design School professor died earlier this week. 

African and African-American Studies Celebrates 50 years

Speakers discuss history, progress, hope, and home. 

by Lydialyle Gibson

Ask a Harvard Professor with Joseph S. Nye

Rating the foreign policy of presidents from FDR to the present day with Joseph Nye, formerly a government professor in FAS, later dean of the Kennedy School, now a University Distinguished Service Professor

Melinda Gates Radcliffe Day Honorand

The philanthropist will highlight Radcliffe Day during Harvard’s Commencement week.

by John S. Rosenberg

Harvard Overseers Nominations Election

On the eve of a contested election for the governing board, looking under the hood of the nominating process

by John S. Rosenberg

Harvard and Guangzhou Institute of Respiratory Health Team to Fight SARS-CoV-2

As the novel coronavirus begins spreading in populations outside China, Harvard announces a collaboration with Chinese researchers to develop diagnostics and therapies for treating SARS-CoV-2.

by Jonathan Shaw

Ghost Stories for the Apocalypse

Ken Liu’s speculative fiction on maintaining and transcending humanity

by Bennett McIntosh

Harvard Divestment Overseer Slate

Petitioner candidates qualify, will campaign to change Board of Overseers and Harvard investment policy.

by John S. Rosenberg

Coming Soon: Ask a Harvard Professor, Season Two

Polarization and the U.S. court system, fixing American healthcare, and more from the next season of Harvard Magazine’s podcast. 

Gustazo in Cambridge restaurant review

Modern delights of Cuban cuisine, in Cambridge 

by Nell Porter-Brown