Features

A woman gazes at large decorative letters with her reflection and two stylized faces beside them.

The True Cost of Grade Inflation at Harvard

How an abundance of A’s created “the most stressed-out world of all.”

by Lindsay Mitchell

A rendering of MASS Design’s proposal to reclaim the waterfront and renew Poughkeepsie’s center

Building a Better World

MASS Design’s healing architecture

by Mark Travis

Matthew Potts in Harvard's Memorial Church

Among the Brokenhearted

The ministry of Matthew Ichihashi Potts

by Nancy Walecki

Archibald Henry Grimke in 1927

Archibald Henry Grimke

Brief life of a Black Harvard Law School graduate: 1849-1930

by Kerri K. Greenidge

Photograph of giant tube worms living near a hydrothermal vent in the Gulf of California

Plumbing the Deep Sea

Peter Girguis probes life on the ocean floor.

by Veronique Greenwood

An illustration depicting students choosing among different varieties of branded college experiences

Reviving the Purpose of American Higher Education

Pursuing their individual brands, colleges neglect the needs of higher education.

by Julie A. Reuben

Historic portrait of Henry Clarke Warren

Henry Clarke Warren

Brief life of a Harvard-educated Buddhist scholar: 1854-1899

by David Gauld

Photograph of a California two-spot octopus

Inner Senses

Nicholas Bellono probes the biological basis of animal adaptations and behaviors.

by Jonathan Shaw

Harvard Business School campus at its unveiling in 1927

A Higher Degree of Responsibility

On the history and potential of values-driven enterprises

by Geoffrey Jones

Along a city street, mural on a concrete wall shows two men shaking hands, with a large pair of watchful eyes in the background.

To the Rescue

Harvard’s Scholars at Risk Program helps endangered artists and scholars

by Lydialyle Gibson

Fernando Zóbel-Montojo

Brief life of an abstract painter: 1924-1984

by Felipe Pereda