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Matthew Potts in Harvard's Memorial Church

Among the Brokenhearted

The ministry of Matthew Ichihashi Potts

by Nancy Walecki

Cartoon of Harvard Band’s large drum

Headlines from Harvard’s history

Headlines from Harvard’s history

Unfinished Business

As President Bacow passes the baton to President Gay, work remains in Allston, online education, FAS planning, and admissions

Sweet Dreams

Where to sleep, sup, and sip in Harvard Square and beyond this spring. 

by Kara Baskin

The John Harvard statue, with books at hand

John Harvard, Reader

John Harvard’s reading matter, a scholar poet, the towering John Fox

by Primus VI

Screenwriter Julian Breece working with a colleague on set

Finding the Movie

Screenwriter Julian Breece on “writing from the soul”

by Lydialyle Gibson

2023 Candidates for Overseers and HAA Elected Directors

Candidates for Overseers and HAA elected directors

President Bacow speaking with Ruth Simmons at Prairie View A&M University

Acting on Slavery’s Legacy

A campus memorial, a senior adviser on engaging with HBCUs, reaching out to descendants, and teaching what has been learned

by Lydialyle Gibson

portrait of young girl surrounded by ornate gold-painted frame

Reframing American Art

Contextualized Spanish colonial works at the Harvard Art Museums

by Nell Porter-Brown

Usha Thakrar standing in the greenhouse production center at Stonefield Farm

“Something Is Very Broken”

Boston Area Gleaners fights hunger from the ground up.

by Nell Porter-Brown

Photograph of giant tube worms living near a hydrothermal vent in the Gulf of California

Plumbing the Deep Sea

Peter Girguis probes life on the ocean floor.

by Veronique Greenwood

James Stock

Seeking Climate Solutions

Teams of Harvard researchers have developed concrete proposals for addressing specific climate impacts.

by Jonathan Shaw