Lydialyle Gibson

A smiling woman with brown hair next to three book covers

Montage | January-February 2024

Living the Science Fiction Fantasy

Novelist Catherine Asaro’s space operas

A woman in an orange sweater and cap stands in front of a large blue and green painting of a water-skiing woman.

Features | January-February 2024

The Philosopher of the Real World

Susanna Siegel moves beyond dialectical debates.

a person smoking in the foreground with x-rays of tuberculosis in the background

Faculty & Research |

Tobacco Smoke and Tuberculosis

Harvard researchers illuminate a longstanding epidemiological connection. 

University News |

Painful Questions from Indigenous Leaders

A conference on Harvard’s history of injustice against Native Americans 

University News |

What Can Be Done About Gun Violence?

ATF director Steven Dettelbach discusses background checks, assault weapon bans, and an “overwhelming problem.” 

Harvardian Macarthur fellows

University News |

Five Harvardians win MacArthur Fellowships

Historian Imani Perry wins for her scholarship on black Americans’ resistance to racism

Students performing dance on stage

University News |

Performing for the President

A musical and poetic “prelude” to Claudine Gay’s installation festivities

The panel at Cambridge Library

University News |

The Uses of Discomfort

The first in a series of public conversations about Harvard and the legacy of slavery

Jarvis Givens and Clint Smith

Social Sciences |

Black Students Speak

Jarvis Givens on two centuries of African American education 

Serhii Plokhy in his Harvard office, smiling with his arms crossed. Behind him hangs a Ukrainian flag signed by Kyiv mayor Vitali Klitschko

Features | September-October 2023

The Return of History

Ukrainian scholar Serhii Plokhy on the war in his home country

Anwar Floyd-Pruitt standing off a red, white, and blue mural he painted after George Floyd’s death. Floyd's right hand is bandaged after he was attacked while painting the mural.

Montage | September-October 2023

Getting His Reps in

Anwar Floyd-Pruitt’s wildly profuse art

Insoo Hyun

Faculty & Research |

A Bioethics View of Brain Organoids

Philosopher Insoo Hyun on one of the fastest moving fields in science.