Your independent source for Harvard news since 1898 | SUBSCRIBE
more News
Soon visitors will return to the arcade overlooking the museums' Calderwood Courtyard.
Photo: Matthew Montieth; © President and Fellows of Harvard College. Image courtesy of the Harvard Art Museums.
The musems will welcome students back on September 1, and the public on September 4.
From left: Paul Fishman, Harry Litman, Amy Jeffress, and Jamie Gorelick
Photographs courtesy of Harry Litman; montage by Niko Yaitanes/Harvard Magazine
Former U.S. attorney Harry P. Litman ’80 and guests’ lively take on legal and political issues.
Amartya Sen
Photograph courtesy of Wikimedia Commons
The book covers the first thirty years of the Nobel-prize winning economist’s life.
more Research
Tiya Miles (top) and Tomiko Brown-Nagin
Screenshot by Harvard Magazine
Tiya Miles traces a mother and daughter’s story through a cotton sack.
Some patients experience lingering and debilitating symptoms after COVID-19.
Art by Niko Yaitanes/Harvard Magazine; images by Unsplash
Some patients experience lingering and debilitating symptoms after COVID-19.
Illustration by Morten Moreland
Can election reforms end the crippling gridlock in American politics?
more Students
Illustration by Mike Austin
Why do so many Harvard students start clubs, instead of joining them?
more Alumni
From left: Paul Fishman, Harry Litman, Amy Jeffress, and Jamie Gorelick
Photographs courtesy of Harry Litman; montage by Niko Yaitanes/Harvard Magazine
Former U.S. attorney Harry P. Litman ’80 and guests’ lively take on legal and political issues.
Emily Cole Groden holds a batch of Evergreen waffles.
Emily Cole Groden’s quest for nutritious frozen waffles
more Harvard Squared
Photograph Courtesy of CinnamonRainbows.com
Where to explore, relax, and renew this season, from the Berkshires to the beach
Click on arrow at right to view additional images
(1 of 3) Ship America on the Grand Banks, circa 1800, by Michele Felice Cornè
©2014 Peabody Essex Museum
From oceanic voyages to romping in the waves, a new exhibit explores relationships to water.
Click on arrow at right to view additional images
(1 of 3) An aerial view of downtown New Bedford highlights historic buildings, which include the New Bedford Whaling Museum, and its cupola.
Dennis Tangney Jr./Istock
Exploring the coastal fishing hub’s history, architecture, parks, and arts scene
more Opinion
Lawrence S. Bacow
President Bacow on exploring better work-life balance after the pandemic
A standard-setter retires—plus U.S. presidential debates, Overseer elections, admissions biases
Corporation members’ civic-mindedness, and undergraduate education at research universities
more Arts
Tiya Miles (top) and Tomiko Brown-Nagin
Screenshot by Harvard Magazine
Tiya Miles traces a mother and daughter’s story through a cotton sack.
Soon visitors will return to the arcade overlooking the museums' Calderwood Courtyard.
Photo: Matthew Montieth; © President and Fellows of Harvard College. Image courtesy of the Harvard Art Museums.
The musems will welcome students back on September 1, and the public on September 4.
The cast of The Hot Wing King
Photograph by Monique Carbon.
The Hot Wing King wins the 2021 prize for drama.
more Sports
Stephen Bourguet
Photograph courtesy of Stephen Bourguet
Graduate student Stephen Bourguet has set his sights on running a personal best at the Boston Marathon in October.
Gabby Thomas celebrates after winning the final in the women's 200-meter run at the U.S. Olympic Track and Field Trials Saturday, June 26, 2021, in Eugene, Ore.
Photograph by AP Photo/Ashley Landis
Thomas becomes the second-fastest woman ever in the 200-meter dash.
more Harvardiana
Sidney Verba
Photograph by Justin Ide/HPAC
Harvard’s mensch, and a record-setting recorder of Crimson lives
Ruth J. Simmons, the guest speaker
Screenshot by Harvard Magazine
The Morning Exercises—further adapted for the era of COVID and streaming—come with strong messages about racial justice.
University Hall, home to the Faculty of Arts and Sciences offices, where faculty meetings are held
Photograph by Bostonian13/Wikipedia.
Honors teaching excellence, and the memory of Nathan Glazer, in last regular meeting of the academic year
Read the
current issue
July-August
2021
Summer’s wild blooms abound in Weezie’s Garden
Photograph by Allison Kern/Harvard Magazine.
Massachusetts Horticultural Society renews its mission.
From the archives
Philip J. Deloria
Photograph by Jim Harrison
Philip Deloria studies American Indians and the contradictions that made America.
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
Your donation today ensures that Harvard Magazine can continue to provide high-quality content and remain an editorially independent source of news about the Harvard community.
Soon visitors will return to the arcade overlooking the museums' Calderwood Courtyard.
Photo: Matthew Montieth; © President and Fellows of Harvard College. Image courtesy of the Harvard Art Museums.
News
The musems will welcome students back on September 1, and the public on September 4.
7.20.21
Some patients experience lingering and debilitating symptoms after COVID-19.
Art by Niko Yaitanes/Harvard Magazine; images by Unsplash
Some patients experience lingering and debilitating symptoms after COVID-19.
Horace D. Ballard
Photograph by Jeneene Chatowsky
Horace D. Ballard will direct American art collections at the museums.
From left to right: Walter K. Clair, Nancy-Beth Gordon Sheerr, Preston N. Williams
Photographs courtesy of HAA.
Harvard alumni honored for extraordinary service to the University
Harvard Forward gains a fourth seat on the Board of Overseers.
Four win scholarships for study in England.
Graduate School of Arts and Sciences honorands, clockwise from top left: Lotte Bailyn, John Hutchinson, Marvin Kalb, and Margaret McIntosh
Courtesy of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences
For graduate studies that contributed to society
New police leader, top teachers, and an excellent economist
60 Oxford Street will be overhauled and outfitted with instruments required to accommodate research in quantum science and engineering.
Kristina DeMichele/Harvard Magazine
A large leap in the smallest science, decarbonization debates, admissions lawsuit
