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Harvard Portrait: historian Sunil Amrita, Mehta professor of South Asian studies

The Bay of Bengal is central for this South Asia scholar.

by Spencer Lee Lenfield

The view from Mass Hall

President Drew Faust on the rise, and significance, of engineering and the applied sciences at Harvard

by Drew Gilpin Faust

Chapter and verse quotation-citation correspondence site

Correspondence on not-so-famous lost words

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

Ricardo Hausmann and colleagues develop a predictive tool for urban leaders

The combination of certain factors can determine whether a city is plagued with disease, or is a hub for innovation. 

by Oset Babür

Malka Older’s global sci-fi

Sci-fi meets the political thriller.

by Marina N. Bolotnikova

Harvard field-hockey’s driving coach

Under coach Tjerk van Herwaarden, Harvard field hockey ascends.

by Erick Trickey

Derek Bok on reforming higher ed

Derek Bok and other scholars weigh in on improving universities and colleges—and why that’s hard to do.

by John S. Rosenberg

Pivoting to focus on faculty and research

Making the faculty and research a high priority for the presidential search