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Brief Harvard Headlines Summer 2025

New leaders, fresh funding cuts, and evolving policies

Joanna Weiss On Harvard's Permanence and Future

Back to campus, and to challenging conversations  

by Joanna M Weiss

group of students perform on a stage in front of a crowd

Harvard’s Comedy and Improv Scene

In comedy groups, students find ways to be absurd, present, and a little less self-conscious.

by Nina Pasquini

A six-foot-tall, five-panel folded screen stands in a field of grass next to the woods. It's painted different shades of green, with some squares cut out that represent digital pixels.

Julia Rooney’s Cyanotype Art At Harvard

Julia Rooney’s paintings cross the analog-digital divide.

by Claire Zulkey

How Will Federal Actions Affect Harvard’s Finances?

Putting Harvard’s $53 billion endowment into perspective

by Jonathan Shaw

A color illustration of students from a diversity of backgrounds eating and talking together at a long dining hall-type table

How Harvard Students Handle Political Disagreements

The Undergraduate asks if intellectualism is really on life support.

by Serena Jampel

Colorful glass bottles and nautical trinkets line a window shelf, with a ship in a bottle as the centerpiece.

Walter Wick’s I Spy Series

I Spy Creator Walter Wick at the Norman Rockwell Museum 

by Nell Porter-Brown

Illustration of a tilted dollar bill with George Washington’s face, partially submerged in ocean waves under cloudy skies.

Will the U.S. Dollar Always Be So Powerful?

The preeminence of U.S. currency at risk

Illustration of a math students gathering, 1936, in Annanberg Hall, Memorial Hall

Snapshots of Harvard History | Summer 2025

Including profundity and pretzels

Illustration of a head in a cloud of oranges

Can an Orange a Day Stave off Depression?

A research study digs into the gut microbiome.

by Erin O’Donnell

A man in a suit smiles and waves while standing outdoors under a tent.

A Look at Harvard’s Distinctive Doctoral Regalia

On regalia, a Jack-of-all-trades retirement, and a Bok’s office bon mot.

by Primus VI

Black-and-white photo of a person wearing a “STRIKE” shirt facing a large crowd in a stadium during a protest.

Harvard’s Michael Ansara on Activism and Resistance

A retrospective on resistance