Features
The Year a Beat Poet Squatted at Harvard
In 1954, Gregory Corso moved into Eliot House. How he stayed there is a literary legend.
Al Franken, satirist and statesman, profiled
The satirist and comedian Al Franken has a new role: statesman.
Traumatic brain injury: research on causes, treatment, clinical applications
From causes to clinical applications and treatment, Harvard researchers investigate traumatic brain injury.
Harvard deans urge renewing civic education
Time to restore American higher education’s lost mission
Eric Mazur on new interactive teaching techniques
"Active learning" may overthrow the style of teaching that has ruled universities for 600 years.
The future of theater in a digital age, ranging from nonprofits to Broadway
Harvard playwrights, directors, producers, actors, and artistic directors speculate about theatrical prospects for the future.
The Brazelton Touchpoints Center teaches a revolutionary relational approach
Supporting children by teaching the adults who shape their lives
Water Security Initiative trains a new generation of multitalented specialists
John Briscoe tackles water insecurity around the world.
The Dumbarton Oaks Medieval Library, explored by Adam Kirsch
Adam Kirsch reads the Dumbarton Oaks Medieval Library—the latest stage in the “American conquest of the Middle Ages”
by Adam Kirsch
"Flying Santa" Edward Rowe Snow delivered gifts to lighthouse children
Brief life of a maritime original: 1902-1982
Peter Del Tredici of the Arnold Arboretum searches for the wild ginkgo
Peter Del Tredici’s search for the wild ginkgo and the secret of its uniquely long survival
by Jill Jonnes