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Features | July-August 2025

Celebrating Integrity

Harvard passes a test of its values, yet challenges loom.

by Jonathan Shaw

Daniel Aaron

Features | November-December 2015

Chronicler of Two Americas

Now in his second century, the uncommon Daniel Aaron remains at work.

by Christoph Irmscher

Forensic pioneer Joseph T. Walker (at left) collects blood and scraps of flesh from the bathtub drain of a 1936 murder victim.

Features | November-December 2015

Vita: Joseph T. Walker

Brief life of a scientific sleuth: 1908-1952

by Thomas W. Walker

Max Beckmann, Self-Portrait in Tuxedo

Features | November-December 2015

Making Modernity

Max Beckmann’s Self-Portrait in Tuxedo

by Joseph Koerner

Photo of Harvard football players heading onto the field

Features | November-December 2015

Murphy Time

Harvard’s greatest football coach—and one of the best anywhere

by Dick Friedman

Features | September-October 2015

Business for the Other Billions

Addressing human needs at the base of the economic pyramid through private enterprise

by John S. Rosenberg

Features | September-October 2015

Mumblecore’s Maestro

The perfect pitch of filmmaker Andrew Bujalski

by Sophia Nguyen

Features | September-October 2015

Corita Kent

A Harvard exhibit situates her work in the Pop art movement.

by Jonathan Shaw

Features | September-October 2015

William Cranch Bond

Brief life of Harvard's first astronomer: 1789-1859

by Alan Hirshfeld

Sears in her Woods Hole office in 1960

Features | July-August 2015

Vita: Mary Sears

Brief life of an oceanographer and patriot: 1905-1997

by Peter Denton

A New Jersey Transit train crosses a 1910 bridge in Kearney, N.J., over which 150,000 to 200,000 passengers cross daily—making it perhaps the busiest rail span in the Western Hemisphere. It is obsolete, but a $940-million plan to replace it remains unfunded.

Features | July-August 2015

Why Can’t We Move?

Rosabeth Moss Kanter on solving America’s infrastructure problems

by Rosabeth Moss Kanter