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Aloian Memorial Scholars

House leaders

Reviving Black Classical Music

Pianist Gerry Bryant highlights black composers.

by Max J. Krupnick

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You Are What (Your Microbes) Eat

Diet, cooking, and the human microbiome

by Veronique Greenwood

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Real Estate by Design

A new Graduate School of Design degree

by John S. Rosenberg

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Staff Pick: Boston Baroque at 50

The early music orchestra offers holiday and other concerts this season

by Nell Porter-Brown

Club and Alumni Interest Group Awards

Fostering community

Inclusive Design, Incisive Art

Amy Yoshitsu’s vision for change

by Claire Zulkey

Senior fellow Penny Pritzker and President Claudine Gay on stage during Gay’s installation

“Let Us Be Courageous Together”

Claudine Gay’s presidential installation

Illustration of a box containing a laid-off fossil fuel worker's office belongings

Preparing for the Energy Transition

Expect massive job losses in industries associated with fossil fuels. The time to get ready is now.

by Erin O’Donnell

Illustration for Harvard Lampoon cover showing a Harvard-Yale football game rendered in the style of the famous Bayeux Tapestry

Football: The Tapestry

David C.K. McClelland’s famous Lampoon cover

by Craig Lambert

Photographic portrait of Virginia Woolf

Shakespeare’s Uncanny Presence

Marjorie Garber explores the bard’s influence on the Bloomsbury Group.

Anna Schwartz at U.S. Treasury Department 1982

Anna Jacobson Schwartz

Brief life of a pioneering economist: 1915-2012

by Jennifer Burns