Features

Caricature of a young man in front of red doors, wearing a green striped sweater.

The Year a Beat Poet Squatted at Harvard

In 1954, Gregory Corso moved into Eliot House. How he stayed there is a literary legend.

by Constantine Archimedes Valhouli

Gutenberg 2.0: What future for libraries?

Harvard’s libraries deal with disruptive change.

by Jonathan Shaw

Old Beijing and new: traditional homes and encroaching high-rises

Changing, Challenging China

A Harvard Magazine roundtable

Professor Dyann Wirth leads the Harvard Malaria Initiative.

Fighting malaria with evolutionary biology and genomics

Harvard scientists are using genomic tools to fight newly resurgent malaria.

by Courtney Humphries

Late at night, Harvard Crimson staffers put to bed the last issue before winter break.

Super-active students are over-scheduled

College students today lead hyper-active, highly scheduled lives.

by Craig Lambert

Johnny Green, with his trademark white carnation and some of his musical works

American composer Johnny Green

Brief life of a conflicted musician: 1908-1989

by Sol Hurwitz

Photograph by Felice Frankel

Nanoscience in photographs

In words and images, George M. Whitesides and Felice. C. Frankel explicate tools, concepts, and applications in nanoscience.

Chad Cowan

Stem-cell science evolves

Stem cells are being used as tools in regenerative medicine and drug discovery.

by Jonathan Shaw

Li prepares to dissect a pangolin, from a popular pamphlet, <i>Li Shizhen: Great Scholar of Medical Drugs</i> (1955).

Biographical sketch of Chinese pharmacologist Li Shizhen

Brief life of a pioneering pharmacologist: 1518-1593

by Carla Nappi

At the Merkers salt mines in central Germany, American GIs admire Édouard Manet’s <em>In the Conservatory,</em> one of the thousands of rare works and documents stored there by the Nazi regime late in World War II. Monuments Man George Stout (see next image), a Fogg Museum conservator turned U.S. Army lieutenant, supervised the rescue of 40 tons of art from the site in April 1945.

The Monuments Men: Rescuing art from the Nazis

Harvard’s Monuments Men at war

Illustration by Stephen Anderson

Professionalization in the academy

On the professionalization of faculty life, doctoral training, and the academy’s self-renewal

by Louis Menand