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Edgar James Banks

Brief life of an entrepreneurial archaeologist: 1866-1945

by Nancy Freudenthal

Elevating Climate Issues

Bacow names economist James Stock to a new position, Vice Provost for Climate and Sustainability

by Jonathan Shaw

Seeing Further

Harvard’s investment in quantum science

by Lawrence S. Bacow

Curiosities: “Completely Magical”

Stunning works by Clifford Ross at the Portland Museum of Art 

by Nell Porter-Brown

Alumni Admissions Interviewers Honored

Miller-Hunn Awards

Supreme Court Brinkmanship

Linda Greenhouse on the 2020-2021 Supreme Court—and the changes to come

Campus, Interrupted

The Undergraduate returns to student life, altered by the pandemic and a year spent apart. 

by Rebecca E. J. Cadenhead , Swathi Kella

China’s Excess Wind Energy

Rather than shutting down turbines, China can harness surplus wind energy to make “green” hydrogen fuel and industrial chemicals.

by Jacob Sweet

Staff Pick: A.R.T.’s Wild: A Musical Becoming

Harvard’s Diane Paulus brings climate change to center stage

by Nell Porter-Brown

Getting Close to the Past

A powerful public history of slavery in America

by Drew Gilpin Faust

The Food Waste Problem

Emily Broad Leib combats wasted food worldwide.

by Jacob Sweet

“Decarcerating” America

A Law School institute facilitates change “from the ground up.”

by Nancy Walecki