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Mary Louise Kelly

Harvard Alumni Day Speaker Announced

NPR’s Mary Louise Kelly will address alumni June 2.

by Nell Porter-Brown

El Cementerio Del Barrio de los Lipanes in Presidio, Texas, as developed by MASS Design’s Santa Fe-based staff

Learning from Indian Country

MASS Design’s Sustainable Native Communities Design Lab

by Mark Travis

Satellite image of Hurricane Bob approaching New England in August 1991

“All Climate Change Is Local”

Assessing hurricane risk and climate adaptation in coastal Massachusetts

by Jonathan Shaw

Illustration of a dollar bill with a head on one side and a heart on the other, exchanging hands

Making Charitable Giving More Competent

How psychological insight can make altruism more rewarding and effective

by Colleen Walsh

Realistic diorama of an old growth forest

The Harvard Forest Dioramas

Scenes of an ever-changing forest, in miniature

by Nancy Walecki

Vintage Harvard Square: a view in 1960

Off the Shelf

In love with Harvard Square, the invention of ICUs, Seamus Heaney

J.J.Carroll housing project in Brighton, with its clustered, offset buildings

Designing Good Lives

MASS Design’s domestic housing, health, and sustainability practice

by Mark Travis

Publisher Departs

A thank you for years of dedicated service

Cambridge 02138

Readers’ views about healthy diets, teachers off the tenure track, mitzvot, and more

Harvard students in caps and gowns

Commencement and Alumni Events 2023

Speakers, ceremonies, and celebrations

Victor A. Lopez sits in a boxing ring

Helping Hands

Future physician Victor A. Lopez-Carmen fights for Indigenous healthcare equity

by Nancy Walecki

Jimmy Tingle holding a microphone and performing on stage

Comedy with a Conscience

Jimmy Tingle’s political humor in a polarized era

by Craig Lambert