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Animal-shaped vessels from around the world at the Harvard Art Museums

Drinking in style, from antiquity to the 1960s

by Marina N. Bolotnikova

Excerpt from “Scale & the Incas”

Questions about how societies conceptualize, perceive, and interpret scale.

Vamsi Mootha studies mitochondria and oxygen

Probing the mysteries of mitochondria, Vamsi Mootha discovers new ways to understand metabolic disease.

by Jonathan Shaw

New development director, online degrees, leadership leaders, and more

New development director, online degrees, leadership leaders, and more

Harvard inaugurates Larry Bacow, its twenty-ninth president

The University’s new leader focuses on challenges to higher education in America.

by John S. Rosenberg

“Time is Now: Photography in Baldwin’s Era” exhibit at the Carpenter Center

Eighteen photographers capture the 1930s through the 1980s.

by Brandon J. Dixon

Jill Vialet and Playworks

Social entrepreneur Jill Vialet ’86 on “positive chaos” and fixing recess

by Nell Porter-Brown

Opera director Sarah Meyers, profiled by Jennifer Gersten

Opera director Sarah Meyers doesn’t want you to notice everything.

by Jennifer Gersten

Saber champion Eli Dersh­witz looks to the 2020 Olympics.

Ranked first in the world, fencer Eli Dersh­witz looks to the 2020 Olympics.

by Lydialyle Gibson

Harvard’s $9.62-billion fund drive

Harvard’s $9.62-billion fund drive

by John S. Rosenberg

Is there a language of behavior?

Sandeep Datta says the brain composes behavior from pre-existing “syllables.”

by Jonathan Shaw

Twyla Tharp’s “Minimalism and Me”

A retrospective show at Boston’s ICA 

by Nell Porter-Brown