Laura Levis

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

Right Now | September-October 2014

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

Right Now | July-August 2014

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.

Montage | May-June 2014

Bob Childs makes world-class violins

Bob Childs makes world-class violins.

| March-April 2014

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.

Right Now | January-February 2014

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

Joseph Aldy examines the true costs of fossil fuel subsidies.

Right Now | September-October 2013

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.

Montage | May-June 2013

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.

Right Now | May-June 2013

“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>

Montage | November-December 2012

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.

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

The former Massachusetts chief justice's Radcliffe Medal acceptance speech