
Your independent source for Harvard news since 1898 | SUBSCRIBE
more News
Nancy Hopkins (center) stands with Salvador Luria (left) and David Baltimore at the MIT Cancer Center in the 1980s.
Photograph courtesy of MIT Museum
New book on Nancy Hopkins speaks to women's fight for equality then—and their fight now
The human rights advocate co-founded Partners In Health in 1987.
Spanning more than 50 years, the conceptual artist’s work explores race, class, gender, and identity.
more Research
Horsemanship appears to have played a key role in the spread of the Yamnaya people.
Photograph by istock and altered by Jennifer Carling/Harvard Magazine
New evidence on domestication of horses—and the spread of an ancient Eurasian culture
The Salata Institute has chosen five teams to pursue solutions to a variety of climate-change impacts.
Logo courtesy of Salata Institute; solar panel photograph by Unsplash
Teams of Harvard researchers will develop concrete proposals for addressing specific climate impacts.
As the ranks of the elderly swell, there are too few housing options for seniors who want to “age in place.”
more Students
more Alumni
Brief life of a Harvard-educated Buddhist scholar: 1854-1899
Alexandra Petri introduces the poet to tech support for help with her keyboard.
more Harvard Squared
Spring is the perfect time to touch up your property
Marquetry artist Alison Elizabeth Taylor at the Addison Gallery of American Art
more Opinion
Pursuing their individual brands, colleges neglect the needs of higher education.
more Arts
Spanning more than 50 years, the conceptual artist’s work explores race, class, gender, and identity.
Patricia and Edmund Michael Frederick have been collecting and restoring historical pianos since the 1970s.
Photograph by Jim Harrison
An instrument restorer’s beautiful obsession
A new novel from foreign correspondent Wendell Steavenson
more Sports
Harmoni Turner '25 had 21 points, 13 assists, and 10 rebounds, making her just the sixth player in Ivy League history to earn a triple-double.
Photograph courtesy of Harvard Athletics
Women’s basketball demolishes Towson in the first round of the WNIT.
Chris Ledlum makes a breakaway dunk after stealing the ball during a game last November against Loyola Chicago.
Photograph by Gil Talbot/Harvard Athletics
Chris Ledlum ’23 makes his mark on the hardcourt.
more Harvardiana
Brief life of a Harvard-educated Buddhist scholar: 1854-1899
Cornhole at HBS, prayer and meditation at SEAS, minerologist’s meter, eclipse aficionado
From the archives
Photograph by William (Ned) Friedman
Re-engaging with nature alongside the director of the Arnold Arboretum
To access Class Notes or Obituaries, please log in using your Harvard Magazine account and verify your alumni status.
Don't have a Harvard Magazine account? Register Here
Or submit a class note or obituary
Mary Summers
Photograph courtesy of the Corcoran Collective
A documentary from 1970 is re-released and newly relevant.
Emily Carmichael
Photograph by Art Streiber for Universal Pictures and Amblin Entertainment
Jurassic World Dominion screenwriter Emily Carmichael on scripting Hollywood sci-fi epics
The film poster for DASH
Photograph courtesy of Spam Pictures
Actor and producer Alex Molina on filming a feature-length thriller in a single take
Abraham Riesman, at home in Providence with his cat, Barbara, writes about pop culture’s overlooked depths.
Photograph by Jim Harrison
Biographer Abraham Riesman plumbs the dark mysteries of the Marvel auteur
Jason Bateman and Jennifer Garner
Photographs by Niko Yaitanes/Harvard Magazine
Jennifer Garner and Jason Bateman received the 72nd annual honors.
During her Norton Lectures, Laurie Anderson sometimes dances with herself or plays a violin of her own invention.
Screenshot by Lily Scherlis
Artist Laurie Anderson delivers her fifth virtual Norton Lecture on Wednesday.
“/Gaishay focusing the camera,” a photograph taken during a 1957-58 ethnographic expedition in Namibia.
Photograph is a gift of Laurence K. Marshall and Lorna J. Marshall © President and Fellows of Harvard College, Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, PM2001.29.15489
Seeking mentorship as a student of color, and finding a calling in the arts