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These Harvard Graduates Are Candidates for Sainthood

For advocacy and benevolence, three late alumni are reportedly in line for the Catholic Church’s highest honor.

by Alex Beam

Seamus Heaney and Amartya Sen speak at Harvard Commencement in 2000

From the 2000 Commencement address

The Short List

On picking a president

Russia’s “Loose Nukes”

The continuing threat to American security

Lasting Impressions

An ancient craft's surprising legacy in Harvard's museums--and laboratories

Your Friend, Fidel

Jorge I. Domínguez, Dillon professor of international affairs and director of the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs at Harvard...

With a Little Help from Harvard's Friends

On Saturday morning, May 13, the dull gray of the sky over Cambridge brightened the white dogwood beside the Faculty Club, colored more deeply...

"A Hazard of Good Fortune"

A few years ago, in this very theater, we began a major undertaking together, and we did so without knowing quite how, or perhaps even whether...

Core Curriculum

Technology and the transformation of identity, community, and commerce   Moderator: Sherry Turkle '69, Ph.D. '76, professor of the...

Ken Miyata

When he died at the age of 32, Kenneth Ichiro Miyata, Ph.D. '80, was one of the most famous fly-fishermen in the world. But even those who had...

by Craig Lambert

What I Read at War

        ...sed carmina tantum nostra valent, Lycida, tela inter Martia, quantum Chaonias dicunt aquila...