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Ranking Extinctions by Ecological Impact
New research on extinctions shows that their ecological impact can’t be measured in numbers of species lost.
Boston by Foot’s “Dark Side of Boston” tour
“Stories the Chamber of Commerce doesn’t want you to hear”
2018 Aloian Memorial Scholars
Two seniors who help make Houses into homes
Excerpt from “Not Quite Not White” by Sharmila Sen
A “first-gen” American explores race and assimilation in the United States.
New Ledecky Fellows Isa Flores-Jones and Cat Zhang
The Ledecky Fellows provide an undergraduate perspective on life at Harvard.
Durba Mitra studies gender in South Asia
Harvard’s first professor appointed solely in gender studies
The View from Mass Hall
President Bacow looks ahead to his new freshman year.
“Shifting Sands”: photos from the Peabody Museum
Family snapshots of living off the land, in the Kalahari
“Rebellious Lawyering” author Gerald López: a profile
Gerald López’s radical theory—and practice
The Supreme Court and a politicized U.S. Solicitor General
The “Tenth Justice” and the polarization of the Supreme Court
Remembering 1969 at Harvard
An exhibit on Harvard in 1969 opens at Pusey Library this fall.
When Capital Trumps Labor
In the antebellum South, slavery was paired with modern business practices.