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Alec Karakatsanis fights for criminal-justice reform in the U.S. legal system

Alec Karakatsanis puts “human caging” and “wealth-based detention” in America on trial.

by Michael Zuckerman

Harvard Presidential Search Advances

Faculty and staff advisory committees unveiled

by John S. Rosenberg

A Life of Adventure and Delight

Akhil Sharma is less interested in ideology in itself than in politics as a backdrop to emotional conflict.

by Marina N. Bolotnikova

Harvard Glee Club and Radcliffe Choral Society members forge a lasting bond

Fifty years after they sang their way around the globe as undergraduates, they returned to Cambridge with full hearts and voices. 

by Lydialyle Gibson

How Polaroid developed a vision for its two biggest instant cameras

Why did Polaroid build cameras this big?

by Sophia Nguyen

Harvard building boom

A campus construction program of unprecedented proportions

by John S. Rosenberg

The First-Generation Gap

Advocating support for first-generation Harvard students

by Alisha Ukani

Recruiting economic diversity

The College admissions office shares strategies.

by Alisha Ukani

The polar vortex produced rapid evolution in lizards

How the polar vortex produced rapid evolution in lizards

by Marina N. Bolotnikova

Harvard’s zero-emissions green building

The Center for Green Buildings and Cities renovates its headquarters to consume almost zero energy.

by Alisha Ukani

Seeing the the Invisible World of Microbes

On Earth, microbes run the show.

by Jonathan Shaw

Headlines from Harvard’s history

A Channel first, a voluntary U.S. history exam, and more from the Harvard Alumni Bulletin and Harvard Magazine