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Harvard Medical Dean, Humanities Honorands, and More

Medical School dean, humanities and sciences honorands, and an app for thriving at Harvard

Meet Matthew Wittmann, the new curator of The Harvard Theatre Collection

Cultural historian Matthew Wittmann makes a home at Harvard's performing-arts library.

by Sophia Nguyen

Letters on charter schools, final clubs, veterans’ memories, and more

Readers comment on charter schools, final clubs, the doubly disadvantaged, veterans’ memories

Plans to reform Board of Overseers’ election procedures

Plans to overhaul the Board of Overseers’ election procedures 

by John S. Rosenberg

Harvard health benefits up 7 percent in 2017

Harvard continues to contend with rising medical bills.

by John S. Rosenberg

Open Book: Bruegel’s Crowd Paintings

Crowd painting that attracts crowds.

Lavietes Pavilion's New Look

Upgrading a venerable basketball arena

by John S. Rosenberg

MOOCs in the Classroom, and for Degrees

MOOC technology in classroom use, for degrees, and more

by John S. Rosenberg

Andrew Myers develops modular antibiotic manufacture

New methods for manufacturing antibiotics aim to replenish a dwindling drug pipeline.

by Erin O’Donnell

The New Bedford Whaling Museum's Moby-Dick marathon

Herman Melville’s epic is “brought to life” in New Bedford, Massachusetts.

by Evander Price

James Kloppenberg's masterwork on democracy reviewed

Reviewing a masterwork on the past, and future, of democracy

Brief life of Alan Seeger, poet and soldier in World War I

Brief live of a premonitory poet: 1888-1916

by Dick Friedman