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To Promote Healthy Habits in Patients, Start with the Doctors

Why Harvard Medical School is training physicians to think more like coaches

by Jonathan Shaw

Brief life of Mary Ellen Avery, groundbreaking neonatologist

Brief life of a groundbreaking neonatologist: 1927-2011

by Amalie M. Kass , Eleanor G. Shore

A new Green Revolution grows from agricultural technologies

Can microbial technologies lead to better, more abundant food?

by Jonathan Shaw

Harvard botanists hunt rare plants in China

The hunt for rare plants in China  

by Jonathan Shaw

Brief life of Henry Chapman Mercer, innovative ceramicist

Brief life of an innovative ceramicist: 1856-1930  

by Nancy Freudenthal

Critic and poet Fred Moten, profiled by Jesse McCarthy

Fred Moten’s subversive black-studies scholarship

by Jesse McCarthy

Excerpt from “Off the Charts,” by Ann Hulbert

Parents and superkids, then and now  

by Ann Hulbert

At Harvard Medical School, Some Training Happens in the Woods

Stuart Harris guides students in the practice of wilderness medicine

by Lydialyle Gibson

Market forces have made American higher education radically unequal

How market forces have made American higher education radically unequal

by Charles T. Clot...

Brief life of Guy Davenport, a polymathic stylist

Brief life of a polymathic stylist: 1927-2005

by Eric Allen Been

Building RoboBees: How Harvard Engineers Are Revolutionizing Micro-Robotics

The push to build flying, thinking, robot swarms

by Jonathan Shaw