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Features | July-August 2025

Celebrating Integrity

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

by Jonathan Shaw

Parkman circa 1890. His vocation and avocation, history and horticulture, both sprang from his passion for nature and “the American forest.”

Features | September-October 2014

Vita: Francis Parkman

Brief life of America’s epic historian: 1823-1893

George Church’s lab has reengineered the genetic code of the bacterium <i>Escherichia coli</i> to make it resistant to viral infection.

Features | September-October 2014

Synthetic Biology’s New Menagerie

Life, reengineered

by Katherine Xue

Talking about her father’s coma, Meghan Cleary ’11 brought Lowell listeners to stunned silence.

Features | September-October 2014

The Lowell Speeches Project

“Community-building magic” through public, personal reflections

by Michael Zuckerman

David A. Moss

Features | July-August 2014

Rebooting Social Science

The interdisciplinary Tobin Project addresses real-world problems.

by Elizabeth Gudrais

Poey as depicted in <i>Popular Science Monthly</i> (1884).

Features | July-August 2014

Vita: Felipe Poey

Brief life of Cuba’s greatest naturalist: 1799-1891

by Lindsay Brownell

Features | July-August 2014

Disruptive Genius

Innovation guru Clayton Christensen on spreading his gospel, the Gospel, and how to win with the electric car

by Craig Lambert

Tiananmen Square on May 28, with the student-made Goddess of Democracy statue facing the portrait of Mao Zedong, China’s revolutionary founder

Features | July-August 2014

Tiananmen Plus Twenty-five

Harvard scholars recall the Tiananmen era and ponder its continuing impact

Hanoi’s streets (in 2007, above) are now full of motorcycles and scooters, and shop shelves are no longer bare.

Features | May-June 2014

A Nation, Building

During a quarter-century of engagement in Vietnam's economic development, Harvard scholars create a unique educational institution.

by John S. Rosenberg

The inscription below this bust of Vidyasagar quotes Rabindranath Tagore: “The chief glories of [his] character were neither his compassion nor his learning, but his invincible manliness and imperishable humanity.” The presence of a garland speaks to the reverence many still feel for the man.

Features | May-June 2014

Vita: Ishvarchandra Vidyasagar

Brief life of an Indian reformer: 1820-1891

by Brian A. Hatcher

Michael Gilmore directs the Harvard-wide Program on Antibiotic Resistance. He has used genomic techniques to trace the evolution of antibiotic-resistant bacteria.

Features | May-June 2014

Superbug: An Epidemic Begins

As antibiotic resistance spreads, scientists and doctors race time.

by Katherine Xue