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Dolores Huerta to Receive Radcliffe Medal

The labor rights organizer will be honored on May 31. 

Kathy Delaney Smith confronts gender issues in women's basketball

Basketball coach Kathy Delaney-Smith navigates players’ gender and sexual identity, mental health, and other challenging social issues.

by David L. Tannenwald

Harvard renames art film department

Renaming Visual and Environmental Studies to signal a clearer focus on making art and film

by John S. Rosenberg

This Year’s Overseer and HAA Director Candidates

The official nominees for 2019 are announced.

The Examined Life

Why is it that so many doctors feel compelled to write, and that so many do, so compellingly? 

by Jonathan Shaw

Hasty Pudding Announces 2019’s Man and Woman of the Year

Bryce Dallas Howard and Milo Ventimiglia will receive their awards on January 31 and February 8, respectively.  

Justice Shelton-Mosley to transfer

The Harvard football receiver and kick-returner will continue his football career next season at Vanderbilt. 

by Dick Friedman

John Ruskin, Victorian Radical and Art Historian

A Houghton exhibition explores the thinker’s influences and impact. 

by Marina N. Bolotnikova

Tracy K. Smith Named Harvard Arts Medalist

 The U.S. poet laureate will be honored on May 2. 

by Marina N. Bolotnikova

Massachusetts Turnpike Will be Rebuilt at Grade

Massachusetts transportation officials plan to rebuild Turnpike at grade—opening Harvard parcels.

by Jonathan Shaw

Will future online education become limited to professional degrees?

Harvard and MIT experiences suggest a more constrained vision for massive free courses.

by Jonathan Shaw

Manuscripts Illuminated…by Women

Tracing lapis lazuli provides evidence that women were directly involved in creating medieval illuminated manuscripts.  

by Marina N. Bolotnikova