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Student orators Blake Lopez, Shruthi Kumar, and Robert Clinton

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Harvard’s student Commencement speakers 2024

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Lord Mayor for a Day

Harvard's Michael Mainelli, the 695th Lord Mayor of London.

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Law Professor Rebecca Tushnet on Who Gets to Keep the Ring

Harvard law professor gets into the details of romantic legal reform.

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Faculty Senate Debate Continued

Harvard professors highlight governance concerns.

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Encampment in Harvard Yard, with signs and tents

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Update: Harvard Encampment Ends

As protest numbers dwindled, organizers and administrators reached an agreement

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Mina Cikara in a classroom with two groups of students

Features | May-June 2024

The Gravity of Groups

Mina Cikara explores how people come into conflict, in politics and beyond

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Finding Harvard’s Voice

Danielle Allen’s educational vision

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A clay sculpture of a robed angel.

Treasure
May-June 2024

Bernini’s Model Masterpieces at the Harvard Art Museums

Thirteen sculptures from Gian Lorenzo Bernini at Harvard Art Museums.

Illustration of a bedridden patient having chunks of the bed removed

Right Now
May-June 2024

Private Equity in Medicine and the Quality of Care

Hundreds of U.S. hospitals are owned by private equity firms—does monetizing medicine affect the quality of care?

Harvard police officer Steven Fumicello poses with black Labrador retriever Sasha.

John Harvard's Journal
May-June 2024

Sasha the Harvard Police Dog

Sasha, the police dog of Harvard University.

A colorful, cubist-like illustration of a Harvard classroom with a robotic humanoid head looming above.

John Harvard's Journal
May-June 2024

How is Artificial Intelligence Being Taught at Harvard?

A new Harvard course on artificial intelligence teaches students how to use the tool responsibly.

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Traces of bird flu have made it into store-bought milk in New England, but at very low levels

The Boston Globe | 5.17.2024

Read more on this topic in Harvard Magazine's article: A Gene Therapy Breakthrough

Harvard Was Unresponsive to Antisemitism, House Committee Finds

The Wall Street Journal | 5.16.2024

Read more on this topic in Harvard Magazine's article: Harvard’s Year That Was

Harvard Has No University-Wide Senate—Professors Are Proposing One

Inside Higher Ed | 5.15.2024

Read more on this topic in Harvard Magazine's article: Governance Reform from Below?

Harvard Reaches Agreement With Protesters to End Encampment

The New York Times | 5.14.2024

Read more on this topic in Harvard Magazine's article: Update: Harvard Encampment Ends

Harvard protesters say they are ending pro-Palestinian encampment: ‘This tactic has outlasted its utility’

The Boston Globe | 5.14.2024

Read more on this topic in Harvard Magazine's article: Update: Harvard Encampment Ends

The Long, Steep Fall of an Online Education Giant

The Wall Street Journal | 5.12.2024

Read more on this topic in Harvard Magazine's article: edX Exit and Axim Online Education Venture Debuts

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Harvard in the headlines

Harvard Magazine sorts through news and commentary in other media and shares diverse views with you. Learn more.

Traces of bird flu have made it into store-bought milk in New England, but at very low levels

The Boston Globe | 5.17.2024

Read more on this topic in Harvard Magazine's article: A Gene Therapy Breakthrough

Harvard Was Unresponsive to Antisemitism, House Committee Finds

The Wall Street Journal | 5.16.2024

Read more on this topic in Harvard Magazine's article: Harvard’s Year That Was

Harvard Has No University-Wide Senate—Professors Are Proposing One

Inside Higher Ed | 5.15.2024

Read more on this topic in Harvard Magazine's article: Governance Reform from Below?

Harvard Reaches Agreement With Protesters to End Encampment

The New York Times | 5.14.2024

Read more on this topic in Harvard Magazine's article: Update: Harvard Encampment Ends

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Harvard in the headlines

Harvard Magazine sorts through news and commentary in other media and shares diverse views with you. Learn more.

Traces of bird flu have made it into store-bought milk in New England, but at very low levels

The Boston Globe | 5.17.2024

Read more on this topic in Harvard Magazine's article: A Gene Therapy Breakthrough

Harvard Was Unresponsive to Antisemitism, House Committee Finds

The Wall Street Journal | 5.16.2024

Read more on this topic in Harvard Magazine's article: Harvard’s Year That Was

Harvard Has No University-Wide Senate—Professors Are Proposing One

Inside Higher Ed | 5.15.2024

Read more on this topic in Harvard Magazine's article: Governance Reform from Below?

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Realistic diorama of an old growth forest

Treasure
May-June 2023

The Harvard Forest Dioramas

Scenes of an ever-changing forest, in miniature

An illustration of people engaging in vigorous, animated dialogue

Features
May-June 2021

Humanities and democratic discourse belong together

Active citizens are humanists.

John Harvard's Journal
May-June 2022

The Truth About Imposter Syndrome

Thoughts on a perennial undergraduate complaint

Portrait photograph of Maggie Shipstead

Montage
May-June 2021

Novelist Maggie Shipstead and “Great Circle”

Maggie Shipstead’s time-spanning, globe-circling new novel

Illustration about meritocracy: one mother penguin and chick wear college mortarboards, while another mother penguin and her chick don’t.

Montage
September-October 2020

Michael Sandel’s “The Tyranny of Merit” reviewed by Spencer Lenfield

Michael Sandel makes the case against meritocracy.

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

Features
May-June 2023

Building a Better World

MASS Design’s healing architecture

Boardwalk by Taunton River and Braga Bridge overhead

Harvard Squared
May-June 2023

Fall River: Phoenix Rising?

“A good place to be pleasantly surprised”

Pediatrician Eileen Costello stands next to the Boston Medical Center’s mobile pediatric clinic.

Alumni
May-June 2021

Pediatrician Eileen Costello, profiled by Nell Porter Brown

A pediatrician cares for a city’s children.