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Why Harvard Needs International Students

An ed school professor on why global challenges demand global experiences

by Fernando M. Reimers

Portrait of Benjamin Smith Lyman circa 1909

The Harvard Graduate and Early Vegetarian Benjamin Smith Lyman

Brief life of the vegetarian trailblazer, 1835-1920

by Christine M.E. Guth

Photograph of Stephen Bergman at home in Massachusetts

Diagnosis by Fiction

The “Healing Quartet” probes medicine—and life.

by Craig Lambert

View of Harvard University campus from the Charles River

Why Americans Love to Hate Harvard

The president emeritus on elite universities’ academic accomplishments—and a rising tide of antagonism

by Derek Bok

Scott Edwards photographed in the ornithology collection

How Birds Lost Flight

Scott Edwards discovers evolution’s master switches.

by Veronique Greenwood

Photograph of Winthrop Bell 1910

Winthrop Bell: Harvard Philosopher, MI6 Spy, and Early Forecaster of the Holocaust

Brief life of a philosopher and spy: 1884-1965

by Jason Bell

Portrait of Zelia Nuttall, 1880

Zelia Nuttall

Brief life of a remarkable anthropologist (1857-1933)

by Merilee Grindle

Professor Myisha Eatmon photographed in Harvard's Barker Center

Break Every Chain

How black plaintiffs in the Jim Crow South sought justice

by Max J. Krupnick

Sharad Ramanathan in his laboratory

How to Make a Mammal

Studying the fates of cells, Sharad Ramanathan comes closer to understanding the biology of development.

by Jonathan Shaw

A woman in an orange sweater and cap stands in front of a large blue and green painting of a water-skiing woman.

The Philosopher of the Real World

Susanna Siegel moves beyond dialectical debates.

by Lydialyle Gibson

Anna Schwartz at U.S. Treasury Department 1982

Anna Jacobson Schwartz

Brief life of a pioneering economist: 1915-2012

by Jennifer Burns