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Caricature of a young man in front of red doors, wearing a green striped sweater.

The Year a Beat Poet Squatted at Harvard

In 1954, Gregory Corso moved into Eliot House. How he stayed there is a literary legend.

by Constantine Archimedes Valhouli

Sandeep Robert Datta

The Mystery of Smell

COVID-19 shines a spotlight on a once-obscure field of science.

by Lydialyle Gibson

Photograph of Edgar J. Banks as he appeared in a 1920s book on his archaeological explorations

Edgar James Banks

Brief life of an entrepreneurial archaeologist: 1866-1945

by Nancy Freudenthal

Emily Broad Leib in front of produce

The Food Waste Problem

Emily Broad Leib combats wasted food worldwide.

by Jacob Sweet

Photograph of E.O. Wilson observing ants

Speaking Pheromone

How science is done, in the lab of E.O. Wilson

by Richard Rhodes

COVID-19 patients on a hospital ward

The State of the Pandemic

Lessons learned from the continuing confrontation with the coronavirus

by Jonathan Shaw

Drawing of Poco from Harvard Celebrities: A Book of Caricatures and Decorative Drawings, 1901

The Poco of Pocos

Brief life of a Harvard “character”

by Hanna Rose Shell

Photograph of Eric Hegsted in Yukon snow with snowshoes

A Yukon Life

Choosing a path far from Harvard

by Eric Hegsted

An illustration showing a professor held back by ivy vines, representing traditional and reluctance to change

Forum: Is Harvard Complacent?

Considering fundamental change in the wake of the pandemic

by Brian Rosenberg

Joan Donovan

Can disinformation be stopped?

Scholars’ perspectives on a pervasive new threat

by Jacob Sweet

Daguerreotype portrait of Unitarian minister Thomas Starr King

Thomas Starr King: Protector of the Union, and Yosemite

Brief life of a transcendentalist out West

by John Buehrens