Features
Getting to Mars (for Real)
Humans have been dreaming of living on the Red Planet for decades. Harvard researchers are on the case.
Museums in Motion
Spirits quickened inside certain Harvard museums this winter when the dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Jeremy R. Knowles, began...
An Historian Plays Ball
Portrait by Flint Born. Photomontage by Bartek Malysa. Historical photographs courtesy of Associated Press. As the class settles in...
Unhealthy Hospitals
How academic medical centers got in trouble, why it matters, and what can be done to help sustain their social mission in a competitive healthcare market.
Edward Sheldon
Brief Life of a secret dramaturge: 1886-1946
Empty Nets
Can marine molecular genetics help form a strategy for restocking the damaged seas? A dispatch from Bali
Justin Kaplan, editor of Bartlett's “Familiar Quotations," reveals his m.o.
Hunting quintessential quotations with the editor of Barlett's
The Storyteller
A professor's close study of Harvard undergraduates yields rich lessons about what makes college succeed - and how students can make it work for them
Quantum Art
Chemist, physisist, and artist Eric Heller harnesses the computer to render stunning images of minute natural phenomena
Innocent Merriment
The theatre Collection challenging lyrics use language to give readers the experience of the poem
John Jay Chapman
Brief life of a neglected critic: 1862-1933