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Who Should Define Campus Free Speech?

Skirmishing about what it means to protest

Harvard Film Archive West African Women in Films

The Harvard Film Archive features works by director Rosine Mbakam

Redefining Race as Ethnicity

The expansive literary scholarship of Werner Sollors

by Christoph Irmscher

Teaching T-Cells to Kill Cancer

Teaching T-cells to kill cancer—and other feats of biomedical science

by Veronique Greenwood

Harvard Library Protests and Free Speech

Balancing academic requirements and free speech, in a semester calm enough to permit more focus on Harvard’s core strengths—and questions of governance

by Max J. Krupnick , John S. Rosenberg

Feminist Spaces on the Harvard University Campus

On seeking feminist spaces on campus

by Yasmeen Khan

Harvard Harpist Creates Album of Women's Compositions

Harpist Elisabeth Remy Johnson’s extended reach

by Lydialyle Gibson

Brief News around Harvard January-February 2025

Nobel honorands, institutional voice, civil discourse, Rhodes Scholars, and more

Reassessing Punishments for Misdemeanors

In more misdemeanor cases, prosecutors should decline to proceed from the start.

by Max J. Krupnick

Five Questions with Professor Jia Liu

Harvard bioengineer on AI in brain-machine interfaces, and using technology to treat disease

by Olivia Farrar

President Garber installed as president of Harvard

A private ceremony celebrated Garber’s appointment as president.

by Jonathan Shaw