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A smokestack spewing smoke with a wind turbine in its shadow

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

Three headshots: V (formerly Even Ensler), Idina Menzel, and Diane Paulus

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

Harvard’s Diane Paulus brings climate change to center stage

by Nell Porter-Brown

Photograph of the iconic Monticello, suggesting that Jefferson’s role as an owner of enslaved people needs to be made part of his history

Getting Close to the Past

A powerful public history of slavery in America

by Drew Gilpin Faust

Emily Broad Leib in front of produce

The Food Waste Problem

Emily Broad Leib combats wasted food worldwide.

by Jacob Sweet

Headshots from left to right of Brittany White, Andrew Manuel Crespo, and Premal Dharia

“Decarcerating” America

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

by Nancy Walecki

Endowment Enigmas

Risky entanglements in the political arena—and the potential for major new academic investments

Reasons to Rejoice

This holiday, discover safely spectacular ways to celebrate the season.

by Kara Baskin

2021 HAA Award Winners

For outstanding service 

Elisabeth Sharp McKetta

How Myth and Memoir Intertwine

Elisabeth Sharp McKetta ’01 finds truth in the border between fact and fiction.

by Juliet Isselbacher

Jon Sot punts a football.

Harvard Football’s Star Punter Makes History

Jon Sot “flips the field” and the Crimson excel early.

by Dick Friedman

Photograph of Houghton Library’s renovated reading room

Reopening. . .Carefully

Resuming Harvard in residence, with continuing coronavirus cautions

by John S. Rosenberg

The red brick former arsenal built in 1850 that now houses the Springfield armory museum

American Ingenuity

Springfield Armory National Historic Site

by Nell Porter-Brown