International
Building a New Information Civilization
Four women leading change in the world of privacy and personal data
by Jonathan Shaw
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
Going Global, Gradually
Harvard’s new approach to international research
by John S. Rosenberg
Harvard Global Institute Grant Supports Climate-Change Research in China
The project’s central focus will be its research agenda.
by Laura Levis
Big Data Takes on Dengue Fever
A School of Public Health study uses cell-phone records to predict the spread of dengue fever.
by Zara Zhang
The Mobile Revolution
Cellphone-based money transfers and cardiac care in base-of-the-pyramid markets in Kenya and Mexico