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Woman in a navy dress smiling while standing on a walkway with a blurred background.

Öberg to Lead Harvard Faculty Recruitment and Retention

The astrochemist will become senior vice provost for faculty affairs this summer.

by Jonathan Shaw

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 live sketch from Lori Vallow Daybell’s murder trial. Daybell is in the middle between two men, all looking somber.

Something from Nothing

Painter, animator, illustrator, and silhouettist Susan Bin

by Max J. Krupnick

A formal portrait or José Olivarez in a gold chain and velvet suit jacket, standing amid red drapes and palm plants.

For the Homies

In José Olivarez’s poetry, the political is personal.

by Josie Abugov

Impatience Is a Virtue

Violinist-multitasker Sumire Hirotsuru

by Jacob Sweet

Portrait image of Walter Kim standing on a street with arms folded across his chest

A New Face of American Evangelicalism

Walter Kim aims for “a way forward even within difference.”

by Nell Porter-Brown

Portrait of Debby Smullyan, retiring obituaries editor

In Service

Editing obituaries and class notes

Two students pose in Harvard Stadium. One holds a basketball and the other holds a soccer ball.

Striving for the Straus Cup

The students who keep competition friendly

by Max J. Krupnick

A drawing of a workplace where parents and their children are working together

Nepotism’s Impact in the Job Market

How connections in blue-collar work disadvantage women and blacks

by Max J. Krupnick