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Illustration of two men facing opposite directions, one viewing the world through fully parted curtains, the other through curtains partially opened.

Values and Voting Patterns

Thinking globally versus locally is predictive of political views

A conceptual illustration of a student seated in a classroom facing an imagined image of herself in a different environment with flowers and rocks

Is Pedagogy About Us?

Questioning the intellectual rigor of bringing identity into the classroom

by Isabella Cho

Ruth Simmons as a young graduate

Educational Ascent

Ruth Simmons on her ascent from sharecropper’s daughter to scholar

Against Yale, sophomore quarter- back Jaden Craig turned to the air, completing 20 passes in 33 attempts for 245 yards and two touchdowns.

Back on Top

An Ivy title—dimmed by defeat in the Game

by Dick Friedman

Tom Hyry photographed in Houghton Library

Tom Hyry

What Harvard's special collections librarian has learned from athletics, activism

by Max J. Krupnick

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Letters about the Middle East war and campus upheavals, the energy transition, legacies, and more

Wintry Portsmouth at sunset

No Sleepy Coastal Town

Visiting Portsmouth in winter

by Nell Porter-Brown

crowd of people dancing on Mykonos in 1955

Off the Shelf

Recent books with Harvard connections

Sharad Ramanathan in his laboratory

How to Make a Mammal

Studying the fates of cells, Sharad Ramanathan comes closer to understanding the biology of development.

by Jonathan Shaw

Emma Dench, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences dean

Regearing Ph.D. Education

Rethinking advising, and financial needs, as doctoral training evolves.

by John S. Rosenberg

Illustration of a school of fish in which the lead fish is actually a robot

What Makes Fish Fast?

George Lauder investigates nature’s solutions to underwater speed.

The stylish Charlie Davidson

Square Scribes

Harvard Square retailers’ tales—and a changing local scene

by Primus VI