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Harvard Overseer and HAA director election results 2017

The annual election results

Joan C. Williams on "class cluelessness"—a book review by Andrea Louise Campbell

A review of Joan Williams’s powerful book on the resentments reshaping American politics

by Andrea Louise C...

Seeking the genetic underpinnings of mental illness

Harvard geneticists seek the biological basis for schizophrenia.

by Courtney Humphries

Harvard Law dean, House leaders, executives’ compensation

New Law School dean, new House leaders, Harvard’s top salaries, and more

Harvard graduate-student unionization

The status of a contested election

by Marina N. Bolotnikova

Boston Athenaeum print exhibit

A Boston Athenaeum print exhibit reveals “a distinctive sense of place.”

by Nell Porter-Brown

A Harvard sociologist studies how veganism went from tasteless to trendy

Studying how a movement went from activist activity to aspirational lifestyle

by Sophia Nguyen

Harvard Graduate School of Arts and Sciences Centennial Medalists of 2017

Honorands whose contributions to society emerged from graduate study

"Poetry, Voiced": diving into the sound archive of the Woodberry Poetry Room

In the Woodberry Poetry Room, a landmark audio collection waits to be heard.

by Sophia Nguyen

University People

New Board of Overseers leaders, top teachers, Pulitzer Prize winners, and more

Fred Glimp, a Harvard legend, dies at 91

The long-serving dean and vice president was a proud member of the College’s “Great Middle Class.”