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New Arts and Sciences dean, chief financial officer, Allston construction, and more
Honoring Alumni Interviewers
Miller-Hunn Award recipients
A “Scholar’s Scholar”
A profile of Harvard’s thirtieth president
by John S. Rosenberg
The New Crew
The 2023-24 Ledecky Undergraduate Fellows.
The Elephant in the Room
Conservative undergraduates’ campus debates
by Max J. Krupnick
Picking Team Players
A test can identify these productivity-boosting personnel.
by Max J. Krupnick
Tracing the Enslaved to Modern Descendants
A new technique for connecting ancient DNA to living relatives may have implications for institutions with legacies of slavery.
by Jonathan Shaw
Not-So-Free Parking
New book discusses how free parking spoiled cities for walkers, drivers, and residents
by Max J. Krupnick
“Joyous Protest Posters”
The Royal Chicano Air Force’s activist art at Houghton Library
by Ryan Doan-Nguyen
Tackling the Dental Care Desert
Harvard alumnae establish a college of dental medicine in rural Missouri.
by Ryan Doan-Nguyen