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That Championship Season: A Strange and Beautiful Alchemy

Harvard’s 1984 National Collegiate Rugby Championship team celebrates its fortieth anniversary.

by Andy Garrigue

How Physics Can Be Used to Manipulate a Coin Toss

How a coin toss can be uniquely rigged – and can demonstrate probability’s role in reducing uncertainty.

by Olivia Farrar

David Baker

Harvard Alumnus Wins Chemistry Nobel

David Baker ’84 invents new proteins not found in nature.

by Lydialyle Gibson

Noah Feldman and Derek Penslar pictured in a lecture room with blackboards in the background

American Jewish Life After October 7

Professors Derek Penslar and Noah Feldman reflect on a difficult year

by Max J. Krupnick

Harvard University Professor Gary Ruvkun is jointly awarded the Nobel Prize in Medicine or Physiology. Victoria Ruvkun (from left) with dog Barnaby, Gary Ruvkun, and Natasha Staller are pictured the morning of the announcement at their home in Newton.

Gary Ruvkun Shares Nobel Prize in Medicine

Harvard Medical School genetics professor honored  

by John S. Rosenberg

Harvard player 6 runs with the ball as UNH player attempts to tackle him

Harvard Football- Harvard 28-New Hampshire 23

A solid bounce-back win against a rugged nonconference foe

by Dick Friedman

How to Reform Healthcare

104 Harvard thought leaders outline medicine’s unmet needs.

by Olivia Farrar

Hopi Hoekstra

Arts and Sciences: Aspirations and Anxieties

Harvard faculty’s first meeting focuses on speech, governance, AI, and other concerns.

by John S. Rosenberg

Martha Muñoz and Dorothy Roberts

Two Harvardians Win 2024 MacArthur Fellowships

A legal scholar studying inequality and an evolutionary biologist honored.

by Lydialyle Gibson

A building on Harvard's campus pictured with a blue sky

Fostering Civil Discourse

How should Harvard stimulate difficult conversations?

by Max J. Krupnick

tents in Harvard Yard

U.S. Representative Blasts Harvard’s Discipline

Continuing attack on campus protests and antisemitism

by John S. Rosenberg

A group of clinicians and professionals gathered at a panel discussion, against a backdrop saying "World Medical Innovation Forum."

Can New Drugs Help Millions of Americans with Obesity?

GLP-1s like Ozempic in the future of healthcare

by Olivia Farrar