Features

Why Harvard Needs International Students

An ed school professor on why global challenges demand global experiences

by Fernando M. Reimers

Vincent Brown writes war and empire into the history of slavery

Vincent Brown writes war, empire, and slaves’ agency into the history of Atlantic slavery.

by Marina N. Bolotnikova

The new engineers: snapshots of synthetic biologists at work

For synthetic biologists, there appears to be no limit to what they can build.

by Jonathan Shaw

A better way to reduce gun violence

David Hemenway advocates a pragmatic, public-health-based solution to gun homicides and suicides.

by David Hemenway

Harvard alumni pioneer new journalism models

New models for newspaper journalism in the Internet era

by Mark Travis

Romare Bearden profiled by Robert G. O'Meally

Brief life of a textured artist: 1911-1988

by Robert G. O'Meally

Science historian Sarah Richardson profiled by Bennett McIntosh

Historian and philosopher Sarah Richardson interrogates the science of sex and gender.

by Bennett McIntosh

William Monroe Trotter

Brief life of a black radical: 1872-1934

by Kerri K. Greenidge

NYT movie critic A.O. Scott profiled by Craig Lambert

A.O. Scott on watching and reviewing a lot of movies

by Craig Lambert

The Talent for Aging Well

George E. Vaillant's generational research on Harvard men unveils the differences that distinguish the "happy-well" from the "sad-sick" in later life.

by Craig Lambert