International affairs
Reporting on Harvard’s global reach—from student fieldwork and faculty research to alumni impact around the world.
Harvard Plans Contingencies for International Students
The Kennedy School and School of Public Health are developing online options.
by Jonathan Shaw
Collecting Ukraine
One of the largest Ukrainian-language collections in the world, housed at Harvard
by Marina N. Bolotnikova
Global Health at Home
Harvesting innovations from around the world to improve American medical care
by Howard Hiatt , Charles Kenney , Mark Rosenberg
China's Great Flood May Be No Myth
Researchers unearth geological evidence to support one of the country’s earliest folk legends.
by Lydialyle Gibson
Chinese Pottery: The First Five Millennia
An exhibition of prehistoric earthenware deepens understanding of early Chinese cultures and communities.
by John S. Rosenberg
Tools for Change
An alumna’s novel approach to helping Kenyan tweens
by Olivia Campbell
The Talk
Commencement oratory from Steven Spielberg, Drew Faust, and others
The Plant Prospectors
Collecting expeditions race the anthropocene extinction to sample wild botanical diversity.
by Jonathan Shaw
Harvard and Higher Education in Vietnam
President Obama’s visit and a developing nation’s new university
by John S. Rosenberg
Shirin Ebadi Shares Her Experience, and a Hug
The Iranian human-rights activist and Nobel laureate talks, and listens.
by Lydialyle Gibson
When Water Is Safer Than Land
Harvard human-rights expert Jacqueline Bhabha critiques the inadequate response to the world’s migration crises.
by Jacqueline Bhabha