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Film director Mustapha Khan near his home and studio, in the shadow of the Brooklyn Bridge

Rocksteady film by director Mustapha Khan

Rocksteady, a film directed by Mustapha Khan '84, explores the culture of stock car races.

by Steve Potter

Harvard faculty-administration tensions over personal financial planning

In a fiscally constrained era, faculty-administration tensions arise.

Priscilla and Brett Donham live happily in a smaller, leaner domicile.

The downsizing movement: meet people who live in, and with, less

Downsizing gains popularity.

by Nell Porter-Brown

For 15 years, William Francis Gibbs greeted the SS <i>United States</i> every time the liner he had designed arrived in New York City.

Naval architect William Francis Gibbs, designer of the SS United States

Brief life of America’s greatest naval architect: 1886-1967

by Steven Ujifusa

A correspondence corner for not-so-famous lost words

A correspondence corner for not-so-famous lost words

Radcliffe Rejuvenated: Days before Commencement, the Radcliffe Institute moved its administrative offices back into the newly renovated Fay House (shown here, the Atkinson Room, on the third floor). With the renovation of its main buildings now complete, the institute planned to redo its campus landscaping this summer.

Neimans, Brazilian students, engineering concentrations, and other news

Shading the Yard, new digital Niemans, Brazil's Harvard commitment, and more

The Neo-carrel does triple duty as chair, laptop stand, and comfortable napping station.

Jeffrey Schnapp's Library Test Kitchen course tries out new ideas for libraries

An innovative course yields new products, services, and experiences that model the possible future of libraries.

by Jonathan Shaw

<b>The Blue Classes:</b> The Class of 2012 has revived the "class color" tradition (see "<a href="http://harvardmagazine.com/2009/11/harvard-class-colors-and-trademark-clothing">Curious Colors</a>"); theirs is blue. On Class Day, members of the class of 1955 displayed their class banner (also blue) to honor the graduating seniors and guest speaker Barney Frank, whose College class (1961) is blue, too.

Harvard 2012 Commencement humor human interest

Commencement moments and people—pleasing, surprising, and funny

Lawrence Lessig

Lawrence Lessig explains how money corrupts Congress

Lawrence Lessig thinks American democracy requires a constitutional overhaul to counter the “economy of influence.”

by Jonathan Shaw

Illustration by Dan Page

Amy Gutmann and Dennis Thompson urge compromise in U.S. politics

Continuous campaigning and gridlocked governing in American politics

by Amy Gutmann , Dennis Thompson

Ben Cosgrove at the keyboard during a recent performance

Composer and musician Ben Cosgrove portrays place in "Yankee Division," a new CD

Composer Ben Cosgrove connects sound and place.

by David Rice

Paul J. Finnegan

Paul Finnegan elected a Fellow of the Harvard Corporation

Paul Finnegan joins the Harvard Corporation, expanding its ranks to 11.