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Getting to Mars (for Real)
Humans have been dreaming of living on the Red Planet for decades. Harvard researchers are on the case.
Karen King, historian of the early Christian church
Karen King studies texts from Christianity’s first centuries to reinterpret the history of the early church.
Millicent Todd Bingham
Brief life of an unlikely Dickinson scholar
by Julie Dobrow
Vamsi Mootha studies mitochondria and oxygen
Probing the mysteries of mitochondria, Vamsi Mootha discovers new ways to understand metabolic disease.
A melting pot: Harvard’s 1968 football team
How the Crimson squad from the immortal ’68 Game revealed a transforming Harvard
Image and the Arc of Feeling
Jorie Graham’s challenging lyrics use language to give readers the experience of the poem.
Profile of Lawrence S. Bacow, Harvard’s 29th president
Lawrence S. Bacow, a career educator, is schooled in making decisions.
William Morris Davis
Brief life of William Morris Davis, pioneering geomorphologist
The Supreme Court and a politicized U.S. Solicitor General
The “Tenth Justice” and the polarization of the Supreme Court
Harvard and the making of Big Football
Boosting the game, and The Game
Unequal Distribution of Incomes
The worrisome distribution of the fruits of American economic growth