Jonathan Shaw

Jonathan Shaw is Managing Editor.

Elevating Climate Issues

Bacow names economist James Stock to a new position, Vice Provost for Climate and Sustainability

Seven Harvard Affiliates Named HHMI Investigators

The designation comes with $9 million in research support

President Bacow Reviews Harvard Climate Actions

A summary of current work—and an important new appointment

A Gene Therapy Breakthrough

A uniquely interdisciplinary lab has developed a new technique to deliver targeted gene therapies.

Harvard Scientists’ Leadership in Fighting Infectious Diseases

Dan Barouch awarded $24.5 million for HIV research, Marc Lipsitch named to national center for public health forecasting

edX Exit

Harvard and MIT sell to a for-profit company, and pursue their mission with a new model.

The State of the Pandemic

Lessons learned from the continuing confrontation with the coronavirus

Harvard’s Commercial Campus Comes into Focus

Tishman Speyer details its Allston plans.

Landmark Bio Breaks Ground

A Boston-area collaboration on advanced life-sciences techniques

Harvard and MIT to Sell edX for $800 million

Proceeds from the transaction will fund a nonprofit dedicated to addressing educational inequities.

Namwali Serpell

The professor of English is also a novelist and a critic.

Breaking even in a bleak year?

Elements may be in place for the University’s financial recovery.