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Harvard football 2017 season wrap-up

A humbling defeat in The Game caps Harvard’s dreariest season in 17 years.

by Dick Friedman

Harvard dean of freshmen departs and more

The dean of freshmen departs, Rhodes and Marshall scholars, and more

Is knee osteoarthritis a mismatch disease?

Neither increased obesity nor longevity explains the doubling of knee osteoarthritis since World War II.   

by Jonathan Shaw

The Museum of Bad Art

A Somerville museum highlights art “so bad, it’s good.”

by Nell Porter-Brown

James Madison biography by Noah Feldman reviewed by Lincoln Caplan

Lincoln Caplan reviews Noah Feldman’s The Three Lives of James Madison: Genius, Partisan, President

by Lincoln Caplan

Brief life of Henry Chapman Mercer, innovative ceramicist

Brief life of an innovative ceramicist: 1856-1930  

by Nancy Freudenthal

Teaching rap in China, and contemplating one's blackness

Teaching rap in a Chinese high school, and contemplating one’s blackness

by Tawanda Mulalu

Harvard archivist Megan Sniffin-Marinoff

The University archivist on what it means to “document Harvard”

by Lydialyle Gibson

Harvard Files Plan for Allston “Innovation” District

The first step of what may become a much larger commercial district

by Marina N. Bolotnikova

The view from Mass Hall

President Drew Faust on the enduring struggle to assure access to education.

by Drew Gilpin Faust

Children's-book author Nancy Churnin is profiled

Nancy Churnin’s picture-book biographies for children span time and space.

by Sanya Sagar

Excerpt from "Slow Medicine: The Way to Healing," by Victoria Sweet, M.D.

A doctor’s take on the destruction of medicine