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Wolfram Schlenker wearing a suit sitting outdoors, smiling, with trees and a building in the background.

Harvard Economist Wolfram Schlenker Is Tackling Climate Change

How extreme heat affects our land—and our food supply 

by Nell Porter-Brown

The dining hall of the Harvard crew’s training camp, with its game-room addition at right, overlooks the Thames river.

The unique Harvard-Yale crew race

Nearly everything about the Harvard-Yale regatta is unique.

by Craig Lambert

Sports Wrap

High honors in squash and wrestling

Northwest Building at Harvard Law School

The building’s façade is now visible.

A badminton rally in progress at the Malkin Athletic Center.

Badminton is very much alive at Harvard

Chasing a bird that flies indoors at 200 miles per hour

by Craig Lambert

Sports wrap

An update on the basketball and swim teams

James R. Houghton

Harvard Corporation senior fellow James R. Houghton to retire

James R. Houghton, senior fellow of Harvard’s senior governing board, will step down on June 30.

Harvard FAS narrows budget chasm

…but more hard work remains to be done.

Construction of the Allston science complex will halt. The Charlesview housing site, across Western Avenue (to the right), will come under Harvard’s control—but development of a proposed arts and cultural hub at this key intersection with North Harvard Street remains a vision for the future.

Harvard reboots its planned expansion in Allston

With construction on its huge science facility in Allston halted, Harvard reconsiders its planned expansion there.

Emma Dench

Emma Dench teaches Roman history and lit

Meet a scholar enthralled by the Romans.

Headlines from Harvard history

Headlines from Harvard history