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Professors Douglas Melton and Michael Sandel prepare to launch their new Gen Ed course, open to students from across the University, at Klarman Hall.

Harvard College Debuts Gen Ed

The College’s required curriculum relaunches with dozens of new experiential, case-based courses.

by Nina Pasquini

The class of 2023 displays its class year banner for the first time

Convocation 2019

First-year Convocation for the class of 2023

by Nina Pasquini

Computer artwork of an autoradiogram of DNA sequences.

There’s (Still) No Gay Gene

Genes seem to play a role in determining sexual orientation, but it’s small, uncertain, and complicated.

by Bennett McIntosh

Screenshot from the Harvard Business School Online website

Harvard Business Law, Schools Prepare Entering Students

Harvard professional schools help their incoming students thrive. 

by John S. Rosenberg

The Case for Smaller Classes

We look back to one of the classic experiments in education: an attempt to determine the effects of class size on young students’ learning.

by Frederick Mosteller

Portrait of Julie Reuben, Warren professor of the history of American education, newly appointed inaugural faculty dean of Phillips Brooks House Center, and Travis Lovett, the newly appointed assistant dean of civic engagement and service

Harvard Public Service Leaders Announced

An inaugural faculty director and an assistant dean direct a broader civic-engagement effort.

by John S. Rosenberg

A traffic sign with the words "Stop Road Closed" submerged in several feet of water

Scholars Advocate “Managed Retreat” from Flooding Coastlines

The question is no longer if, but when and how. 

by Lydialyle Gibson

Ask a Harvard Professor

A new podcast from Harvard Magazine

A portrait of Stephanie Paulsell, interim Pusey Minister in the Memorial Church

Harvard Memorial Church Interim Minister

Stephanie Paulsell is the successor, for now, to Jonathan Walton.

by John S. Rosenberg

A crow perched on a branch inside an aviary holds a stick tool in its beak during downtime from the experiment

Crows Know How to Have Fun

Surprising research about highly adept birds making and using tools

by Marina N. Bolotnikova

Book jackets for "The Hate U Give," "The Diary of Anne Frank," "The Bluest Eye," "Coming of Age in Mississippi," and "Are You There, God? It's Me, Margaret"

Enlarging the canon, broadening the mind

One reader’s perspective

by Josiane Grégoire

The Institute for World Literature

The Institute for World Literature expands global scholarship.

by Spencer Lee Lenfield