Jonathan Shaw

Jonathan Shaw is Managing Editor.

AI in the Academy

Generative AI can enhance teaching and learning but augurs a shift to oral forms of student assessment.

Harvard Economist Claudia Goldin Wins Nobel Prize in Economics

She identified key drivers of gender differences in the labor market.

The Food-Climate Conundrum

A Harvard Radcliffe Institute symposium tackles sustainable food systems in a changing climate.

An “Egalitarian Curiosity”

How to encourage free speech and inquiry on campus

Parkes Named Harvard Engineering and Applied Sciences Dean

The computer and data scientist is known as a listener and a leader.

Marla Frederick Named Dean of Harvard Divinity School

The scholar of the African American religious experience will become dean January 1.

Embracing AI

The dawn of the virtual teaching fellow

What Makes Humans Smart?

The critical role of cultural intelligence

Campus Conversations on Speech

Some faculty members and students express concern that free inquiry has become constrained.

Life’s Blueprints

The development of developmental biology

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.