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Drew Faust on One Harvard

A letter from President Faust

Scientists plumb the origins of life on Earth and other planets

How the Origins of Life Initiative began and continues now

by Courtney Humphries

Letters on geoengineering, energy divestiture, drug discovery, and more

Letters on geoengineering, energy divestiture, drug discovery, and more

Catherine A. Gellert is the new Harvard Alumni Association president

An energetic alumni leader emphasizes her “ability to listen.”

Max and Trystan Sandvoss make goat cheese in upstate New York.

The brothers Sandvoss moved from glitter to goat cheese.

by Steve Potter

In Harvard’s Arts and Sciences faculty, efforts to find more tenure-track women

In the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, efforts are under way to attract more tenure-track women.

Harvard's fiscal picture on verge of capital campaign

Putting The Harvard Campaign in fiscal context

Self-Fashioning in Society and Solitude

On crafting a liberal-arts education by reading the classics and shaping one's life course

by Nannerl O. Keohane

A review of Watertown's Strip T's restaurant

A Watertown luncheonette morphs into a stellar restaurant.

by Nell Porter-Brown

sitesALIVE! founder Rich Wilson circles the globe—solo—under sail

Rich Wilson ’72 circled the globe—nonstop, solo, under sail—and has written the tale.

by Craig Lambert

Harvard's Walter Johnson on the slave South

The capitalist economy and dark dreams of the slaveholding South

by Michael Bernath

New Ledecky fellows

New Ledecky fellows