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Beau McCall, at left, wearing Button Jacket: Born in Philly, Made in Harlem, circa 1988, and his partner, Souleo, wearing Button Jacket: Stacked Sleeves, circa early 1990s-2021

Art Made Out of Buttons

Works by Harlem-based artist Beau McCall at Brockton's Fuller Craft Museum

by Nell Porter-Brown

Moitri Chowdhury Savard smiling, sitting indoors against a dark background.

Harvard Alumni Association President Elected

Alumni Association president Moitri Chowdhury Savard

by Nell Porter-Brown

Collage of Chef Nisha Vora in the kitchen preparing a dish, a bowl of sticky coconut-milk-braised tofu over rice, and a plate of buttermilk-fried “chicken” with cornbread and dilly slaw.

From Harvard Law Books to Vegan Cookbooks

Nisha Vora’s vegan journey

by Claire Zulkey

Task Forces Address Antisemitism and Anti-Arab Challenges at Harvard

Early findings and recommendations from the task forces on antisemitism and anti-Muslim, -Arab, and -Palestinian bias

by John S. Rosenberg

Covers of Harvard and Radcliffe College class of 1954 seventieth reunion class reports

How Harvard Has Evolved

Alumni perspectives on Harvard in crisis, and signs of a changed community

by Primus VI

Jeanne Gang’s organic Gilder Center, grafted into the American Museum of Natural History

Fall Book Recommendations from Harvard Authors

Democratic organizing, “architectural grafting,” the Constitution, offshore wealth, and other new books

Fairfield Porter's “Self-Portrait in the Studio,” painted in 1948

An Underknown Twentieth Century Realist Artist

Brief life of an American realist artist and critic: 1907-1975

by Jane Borthwick

Against the background of a single neuron (orange), an axon (blue) emanating from another cell whorls itself into tangled balls.

Brain Mapping Suggests How Memories are Stored

A decade-long project to map a cubic millimeter of human brain reveals previously unimagined architectures.

by Jonathan Shaw

A cube of uranium from Nazi Germany

A Block of Nazi Uranium at Harvard

Proof of a secret Nazi nuclear project

by Max J. Krupnick

Clockwise from top left: Karen Lorry Chapman, George T. Hodakowski, Bill Parsons, Candace Plummer Gaudiani, Margaret M. Chin, Mark G. Pelletier, John J. Moon, and Carole Turner Reading

Harvard Miller-Hunn Awards

Miller-Hunn awardees

A black-and-white portrait of Tomi Adeyemi, alongside the covers of her novels "Children of Blood and Bone," "Children of Anguish and Anarchy," and "Children of Virtue and Vengeance."

Harvard Author Behind Afrofuturist Trilogy “Blood and Bone”

The reality-based fantasies of novelist Tomi Adeyemi

by Lydialyle Gibson

A whimsical illustration of four people in 1920s attire driving a vintage green car, waving a "Harvard" flag as they pass by a red-brick building with a clock tower at night.

Harvard Short Headlines from the Past

Headlines from Harvard’s history