Laura Levis

When researchers placed Spanish-speaking riders on a Boston-area commuter-rail train, xenophobic attitudes first increased, then decreased.

Faculty & Community |

Ryan Enos of Harvard explores how race-based reactions affect society

Ryan Enos probes how people react to those of a different race

Eastern hemlocks at Harvard Forest’s Slab City wildland

Science & Technology |

Harvard researcher David Foster on the slow death of the hemlock tree

A tiny insect, the woolly adelgid, is killing off these giant evergreens.

In his Cambridge studio, Childs makes about six violins a year.

Performing & Recorded Arts |

Bob Childs makes world-class violins

Bob Childs makes world-class violins.

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Harvard Magazine Goes Mobile

Harvard Magazine goes mobile

First discovered in the 1880s, the Midway-Sunset oil field near Taft, California, remains in production today.

Faculty & Community |

HKS Professor Joseph Aldy examines the true costs of fossil fuel subsidies.

Joseph Aldy examines the true costs of fossil fuel subsidies.

Faculty & Community |

A poster by Harvard scientists shows 4.6 billion years of evolutionary history

A poster by Harvard scientists shows 4.6 billion years of evolutionary history.

Filmmaker Julie Mallozzi intercut scenes of Lalita Bharvani at home, tending to her garden or doing yoga, with startling images of x-rays and medical tests, including an echocardiogram. One poignant scene shows Bharvani visiting her elderly mother in India.

Arts & Culture |

Julie Mallozzi's film Indelible Lalita tells a medical and spiritual story

Indelible Lalita’s saga of pigmentation and personhood

Compact apartments are proliferating in the United States. Here, artist’s renderings show how the MMNY micro-units, prefabricated in the Brooklyn Navy Yard and shipped to the East 27th Street building site, will be stacked atop each other like Lego bricks.

Arts & Culture |

“My Micro NY” units were created by three Harvard GSD alumni

With micro-units, three GSD alumni hope to revolutionize apartment living in New York City.

David and Jackie Siegel relaxing at home in <i>The Queen of Versailles</i>

Performing & Recorded Arts |

The wealth and fall of David and Jackie Siegel: a documentary

A documentary film turns a lens on the “1 percenters.”

Radcliffe Institute dean Lizabeth Cohen awards the Radcliffe Medal to Margaret Marshall.

University News |

Radcliffe Medalist Margaret Marshall says judiciary's impartiality is in danger

The former Massachusetts chief justice's Radcliffe Medal acceptance speech