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Caricature of a young man in front of red doors, wearing a green striped sweater.

The Year a Beat Poet Squatted at Harvard

In 1954, Gregory Corso moved into Eliot House. How he stayed there is a literary legend.

by Constantine Archimedes Valhouli

Team photo, Boston Tigers in 1940, Arthur Augustus “Fats” Johnson at far right

Arthur Augustus Johnson

Brief life of a Black baseball impresario: 1890-1951

by Kasey Uhlenhuth , Harry R. Lewis

President Larry Bacow and Adele Fleet Bacow, photographed at Elmwood, April 2023

Short and Sweet

Larry Bacow’s Harvard presidency, beyond the pandemic

by John S. Rosenberg

Paola Arlotta standing in her laboratory

How Harvard Researchers Are Growing Human Brain Organoids to Study Autism and Consciousness

Paola Arlotta’s organoids provide a window into the human brain.

by Lydialyle Gibson

Gram Parsons stands in front of a bus in Harvard Square

Sound as Ever

Gram Parsons and Harvard’s hand in country rock

by Nancy Walecki

Ursula Bailey working in a Harvard geology laboratory, 1945

Trailblazer in Space Science: The Legacy of Harvard's Ursula B. Marvin

Brief life of a pioneering planetary geologist: 1921-2018

by David A. Kring

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

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