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Recent books with Harvard connections

Beach reading, the West, segregation, gardening with children, and more

Using genes to predict risk of mental illness

Can genes predict risk of mental illness?

by Courtney Humphries

Harvard online learning update

From HarvardX to the classroom, Harvard Medical teaching online, and more

by John S. Rosenberg

Harvard Portrait: Sarah Lewis

An art historian on race and photography

by Marina N. Bolotnikova

Day trips on the Merrimack River

Paddling the Merrimack in Lowell and Lawrence

by Nell Porter-Brown

How U.S. companies stole American jobs

Domestic outsourcing, not globalization, has redefined employer-employee ties.

by Oset Babür

The Harvard Medalists of 2017

Honorees include an architect, athletics enthusiast, and longtime University administrator.

Tahmima Anam's "The Bones of Grace" excavates history and family

Tahmima Anam’s Bengal trilogy finds a resting place.

by Marina N. Bolotnikova

New tech helps Harvard's “unplayable” lacquer poetry discs get heard

Come on, IRENE: a new process saving audio from “catastrophic” damage

by Sophia Nguyen

Harvard College quantitative requirement

The vexatious business of defining a gen-ed course in quantitative literacy

by John S. Rosenberg

Joe Biden, Drew Faust, Mark Zuckerberg Harvard Commencement

Words of wisdom from Joe Biden, Drew Faust, Mark Zuckerberg, student speakers, and more

“Fair Harvard,” Soviet-style liberal arts, campus oases

“Fair Harvard,” liberal arts Soviet-style, campus oases, and more

by Primus VI