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Harvard Alumnus Wins Chemistry Nobel

David Baker ’84 invents new proteins not found in nature.

by Lydialyle Gibson

How Technology Shapes Elections, Privacy, and Democracy

Latanya Sweeney confronts our all-consuming “technocracy.”

by Lydialyle Gibson

Do Ivy League Athletes Outperform in Careers?

How does undergraduate participation in varsity sports enhance career success?

by Jonathan Shaw

Harvard’s Gilbert and Sullivan Players, Then and Now

Students adapt the operettas to changing times.

by Nina Pasquini

Edwin Frank Explores the 20th-Century Novel in 'Stranger Than Fiction'

A book about books—and the protagonist is the twentieth-century novel itself.

by Lydialyle Gibson

News in Brief

Provost appointed, College dean and University Secretary to step down, admissions after affirmative action, and more

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Letters on academic freedom, reading, the science of sociability, and more

The Boston Camerata Turns 70

Celebrating early music

by Nell Porter-Brown

Henry Hobson Richardson: Architect of Harvard's Iconic Austin and Sever Halls

Invaluable architectural archive published at last

by John S. Rosenberg