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Harvard Endowment, Criminal Justice, and Settler Colonialism
Readers’s views on road safety, protests, settler colonialism, and responding to the Trump administration’s actions against Harvard
A Harvard Love Story in Poetry
Young love: the poem, plus enduring lessons from a public-health pioneer
by Primus VI
Publications by Harvard Authors Spring 2025: New Releases
Operatic counterculture, a Passover graphic novel, James Joyce’s biographer, and more
Brief Harvard News Spring 2025
Physician-authors address Commencement and Alumni Day, new School of Education Dean, and more
Biology's "Mirror Organisms"—And Their Dangers
Life forms built from left-handed DNA and RNA could threaten Earth’s plants, animals, and insects.
by Ann Thomas
Springtime with Mass Audubon
Springtime with Mass Audubon
Shepherdess Mary Berle's Massachussetts Mountain Farm
A former educator takes on one last big project: sheep farming
The Franklin Stove—A Historical Climate Change Adaptation
Historian Joyce E. Chaplin reinterprets an early era of invention, industrialization, and climate challenge
Lawrence Bacow on the Auschwitz Memorial
President Lawrence S. Bacow reflects on the liberation of Auschwitz
John Rosenberg Retires From Harvard Magazine
The long-time editor signs off
Paper Peepshows at Harvard's Baker Library
How “paper peepshows” brought distant realms to life
Richard P. Lifton Appointed to Harvard Corporation
Succeeds fellow life scientist Shirley Tilghman