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Business school-engineering joint tech degree

Harvard’s business and engineering faculties join forces on a new technology-design degree—before they co-locate in Allston.

by John S. Rosenberg

David Sinclair’s anti-aging science

Can a single molecule extend lifespan?

by Marina N. Bolotnikova

Harvard satirized, critiqued, aflame

A fresh source for Harvard humor, a critique embedded in a memorium, and historic photos of a famous campus fire

by Primus VI

Alison Carey, on directing the American Revolutions cycle at the OSF

Historical plays for a nation “stuck in the middle”

by Lydialyle Gibson

New Ledecky Fellows Natasha Lasky and Tawanda Mulalu join Harvard Magazine

The Ledecky Fellows provide an undergraduate perspective on life at Harvard.

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

An Uncertain Future for Harvard Square

Multiple property sales across Harvard Square suggest that big changes are underway. Who will shape the future of the Square? 

by Oset Babür

College Hackathons

On the draws and limitations of college hackathons

by Alisha Ukani

Lieber named University Professor

The pioneering chemist of bio-compatible transistors and other nanoscale wonders receives Harvard’s highest faculty honor.  

by Jonathan Shaw