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Harvard’s 2018 Commencement rites

A celebration of President Drew Faust, and wariness about the assault on “veritas”

by John S. Rosenberg

Attendance artifact, women’s work, and “Fair Harvard” redux

Attendance artifact, women’s work, and “Fair Harvard” redux

by Primus VI

Book review: “A Terrible Country” is a cold, welcome wind

Keith Gessen’s second novel deftly interweaves politics and personal history.

by Maggie Doherty

Harvard president Drew Faust in perspective

Drew Faust’s presidency in perspective

by John S. Rosenberg

University People

S. Allen Counter, undergraduate-education dean, teaching prizes, and more

Commencement Confetti

The 2018 rites in print and digital, M.D. on her toes, and more

MASS MoCA summer events

MASS MoCA’s summer smorgasbord

by Nell Porter-Brown

Getting Harvard’s Gen Ed right, finally

The urgency of getting Gen Ed right

The 2018 Harvard Cambridge Scholars

Harvard graduates are Britain-bound.

“Next steps”: profile of Paul Taylor dancer Madelyn Ho

Madelyn Ho pursued two tracks: modern dance, and getting her M.D.

by Samantha Maldonado

Harvard’s Elsie Sunderland maps invisible ocean pollutants

Elsie Sunderland traces the flows of human pollutants in the oceans. They come back to bite us.

by Courtney Humphries

Underground: The Story of Harvard’s Class of 1968

A senior thesis, and a new film, on the “historic generational shift” of which the class of 1968 was a part.

by Lydialyle Gibson