Features
Why Harvard Needs International Students
An ed school professor on why global challenges demand global experiences
Brief life of Henry Knowles Beecher, anesthetist and late-blooming ethicist
Brief life of a late-blooming ethicist: 1904-1976
by Jack El-Hai
The largest flower in the world is a parasite
Exploring the genetic mysteries of a gigantic parasite
Justice Stephen Breyer is profiled by Lincoln Caplan
The optimistic project of Justice Stephen Breyer
Jennifer Lewis's quest for a 3-D printed kidney
3-D-printing pioneer Jennifer Lewis aims to fabricate replacement organs.
Documenting refugees fleeing war to seek safety in Europe
A Nieman Fellow documents the perilous passage of refugees fleeing war to seek safety in Europe.
Brief life of Williamina Fleming, spectrographic pioneer and astronomer
Brief life of a spectrographic pioneer: 1857-1911
Deidre Lynch on Jane Austen and loving literature
Deidre Lynch on the cult of Jane Austen and the complexities of loving literature
How surveillance changes people’s behavior
Assaults on privacy and security in America threaten democracy itself.
Class picture: inside the pilot year of the Harvard Teacher Fellows
Harvard gets serious about training its graduates to teach in the classroom.
John Singleton Copley and Harvard, by Jane Kamensky
When the College commissioned Copley