Features
Why Harvard Needs International Students
An ed school professor on why global challenges demand global experiences
Global Health at Home offers innovative techniques to improve U.S. medical care
Harvesting innovations from around the world to improve American medical care
Brief life of Alan Seeger, poet and soldier in World War I
Brief live of a premonitory poet: 1888-1916
Death penalty critiqued by Carol and Jordan Steiker
Sibling scholars Carol Steiker and Jordan Steiker seek to change how America thinks about capital punishment.
The case for charter schools and other choice options
Making the case for charter schools and other choice options to boost educational performance
Brief life of George Bucknam Dorr, a founder of Acadia National Park
Brief life of a persistent conservationist: 1853-1944
Harvard’s Jerry Mitrovica explains how Earth dynamics connect to climate
Connecting climate change to the planet’s shifting crust
Profile of political philosopher Nancy Rosenblum
Nancy Rosenblum studies neighbors and the power of proximity.
Novelist Colson Whitehead, profiled by Jesse McCarthy
Colson Whitehead ’91 plays for higher stakes in his new novel.
The Arnold Arboretum’s 10-year plan for plant collecting
Collecting expeditions race the anthropocene extinction to sample wild botanical diversity.
Brief life of mathematician Nathaniel Bowditch
Brief life of a mathematician and businessman: 1773-1839