Features

Alice Hamilton in a dark dress with high lace collar, gazing left in a sepia-toned portrait

Features | May-June 2025

Alice Hamilton

Brief life of a public-health pioneer and reformer: 1869-1970

by Daniel Stone

Features | March-April 2011

Bao Luong

Brief life of a Vietnamese revolutionary: 1909-1976

by Hue-Tam Ho Tai

Louis Kunkel in his laboratory at Children’s Hospital

Features | March-April 2011

The Gene Hunter

Louis Kunkel’s 30-year quest to diagnose and cure muscular dystrophy

by Victor McElheny

Thomas Wolfe and Gertrude Stein

Features | March-April 2011

Quotable Harvard

An expert's pick of choice Harvard words

by Fred Shapiro

Matthew Nock sits in his lab’s control room, where researchers record subjects’ behavioral and physiological responses during experiments. For example, they might measure whether people who engage in self-injury show greater emotional distress, in response to frustrating tasks, than people who do not. (Nock’s lab manager and a postdoctoral fellow are seen in the adjoining room through one-way glass.)

Features | January-February 2011

A Tragedy and a Mystery

Understanding suicide and self-injury

by Elizabeth Gudrais

Bernardo Flores, Rafael Tapajós, and Hannah Horowitz ’11 learn how to analyze data gathered from a weather balloon under the supervision of Professor Steven Wofsy

Features | January-February 2011

Models—and Mud—in Amazonia

Students grapple with the fate of the rainforest in a changing climate.

by Jonathan Shaw

Kermit "Kim" Roosevelt in 1950

Features | January-February 2011

Kermit Roosevelt

Brief life of a Harvard conspirator: 1916-2000

by Gwen Kinkead

A skull session with human evolutionary biologist Daniel Lieberman in the fossil room at the Peabody Museum. Millions of years of natural selection have shaped the human head. From left to right: a Neanderthal; <i>Homo erectus; Homo habilis; Australopithecus africanus; Pan troglodytes</i> (common chimpanzee); <i>Homo sapiens</i> (human). “Gonzo,” a Neanderthal skeleton, stands in the back.

Features | January-February 2011

Head to Toe

Daniel Lieberman tracks the evolution of the human head.

by Jonathan Shaw

Features | November-December 2010

“A Nation Arguing with Its Conscience”

Deliberative democracy, philosophical pragmatism, and Barack Obama's conception of American governance

by James T. Kloppenberg

Monimbo, Nicaragua, 1979

Features | November-December 2010

A Lens on History

Photographer Susan Meiselas’s quest to understand via images. With audio from the interview.

Alice Paul

Features | November-December 2010

Alice Paul

Brief life of a pioneering suffragist: 1885-1977

by Mary Walton