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Parkes Named Harvard Engineering and Applied Sciences Dean
The computer and data scientist is known as a listener and a leader.
Black Students Speak
Jarvis Givens on two centuries of African American education
The Burst of the South Sea Bubble
A Harvard Business School exhibit documents the first global financial crisis.
Marla Frederick Named Dean of Harvard Divinity School
The scholar of the African American religious experience will become dean January 1.
Embracing AI
The dawn of the virtual teaching fellow
Tracing the Enslaved to Modern Descendants
A new technique for connecting ancient DNA to living relatives may have implications for institutions with legacies of slavery.
Not-So-Free Parking
New book discusses how free parking spoiled cities for walkers, drivers, and residents
“Joyous Protest Posters”
The Royal Chicano Air Force’s activist art at Houghton Library
Tackling the Dental Care Desert
Harvard alumnae establish a college of dental medicine in rural Missouri.
Addressing Disability
The new Harvard student activism
Saving the News—and Democracy
Should government bolster the free press?
Post-COVID Learning Losses
Children face potentially permanent setbacks