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Harvard library staffers protest after possible layoffs are announced

The threat of library staff layoffs, absent details, leads to consternation and protests.

Harvard faculty discuss the future of the academe

Faculty members predict what a Harvard education will look like in 2036.

First round of HILT grants for learning and teaching announced

Chosen from a field of 255, 47 awards will stimulate innovation in learning and teaching.

Headlines from Harvard history, May-June 1917-1982

Headlines from Harvard history

Update on Harvard's Fogg Art Museum reconstruction

An aerial view of the Fogg art Museum reconstruction.

Amanda Claybaugh, explicator of the nineteenth-century novel

Meet the expert on nineteenth-century novels and reformist writings.

Harvard Medical School problems caring for research primates

Harvard Medical School's primate research center encounters repeated, serious lapses of proper procedure and safe animal care

by Carolyn Y. Johnson

The Nieman Journalism Lab probes the future of journalism

The Nieman Journalism Lab tracks innovations in journalism, online, in print, and on the business side.

by Craig Lambert

Harvard faculty and alumni named 2012 Guggenheim fellows

Faculty members and alumni named 2012 fellows

A printer error involving the May-June 2012 Commencement & Reunion Guide

Due to a printer error, some copies of the May-June issue are missing the Commencement & Reunion Guide...

‘Lilac Sunday’—a history of the Arnold Arboretum cultivar

The Arnold Arboretum's "Lilac Sunday" tradition

by Christopher Reed

Rare 1776 U.S. flag displayed; Motif No. 1 celebrated in new book

A star-spangled Colonial find and a book honoring Motif No. 1