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Portrait of Zelia Nuttall, 1880

Zelia Nuttall

Brief life of a remarkable anthropologist (1857-1933)

by Merilee Grindle

FAS: Faculty and Fisc

The Faculty of Arts and Sciences’s fisc—and aging professoriate

by John S. Rosenberg

Natalie Vinard, Harvard Magazine’s new publisher

Three Cheers

Welcoming the magazine’s new publisher and two editorial colleagues

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Fresh Takes on the Caribbean

The ICA/Boston's exhibit offers views from the diaspora  

by Nell Porter-Brown

Amanda Moreno Garcia stands in front of hospital

Battling Eating Disorders

A medical student’s cause

by Lindsay Mitchell

Bronze sculpture of a winged face and torso stands in a lush green garden

Thinking Archaically

The earthly permanence of Romolo Del Deo’s sculpture

by Jacob Sweet

Claudia Goldin, Nobel laureate

News in Brief

Nobel laureate in economics, public-health dean, breaking ground in Allston, and more

Sidewalk chalk, image of a dove of peace crying about lost civilian lives

The Dogs of War

Harvard’s reactions to Hamas’s terrorism and Israel’s response

Greg Stone poses in front of trees

Greg Stone, An Emerging Novelist at 70

Late-life inspiration leads to pulpy noir novel

by Lydialyle Gibson

Image of American Eagle crashing into a whirlpool

Democracy Endangered

American democracy endangered by minority rule

map depicting Roman Empire

The Roman Empire’s Cosmopolitan Frontier

Genetic analysis reveals a culture enriched from both sides of the Danube.

by Jonathan Shaw

a person smoking in the foreground with x-rays of tuberculosis in the background

Tobacco Smoke and Tuberculosis

Harvard researchers illuminate a longstanding epidemiological connection. 

by Lydialyle Gibson