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A crowd of marchers carry signs that read "We need a fair raise"

University News |

A New Contract for HUCTW

A year-plus of hard-fought negotiations yield pay raises and other benefits for union members.

Paola Arlotta standing in her laboratory

Features | July-August 2023

“This Beautiful Machine”

Paola Arlotta’s organoids provide a window into the human brain.

Moderator Jacqueline Bhabha seated at a table with panelists Agnes Binagwaho, Abby Maxman, Natalia Kanem, and Reema Nanavaty.

Commencement |

More “Cooperative” Than “Corporate”

A Radcliffe Day panel discusses women’s leadership in global healthcare.

Ban Ki-moon at podium

Commencement |

“We Only Have One Planet”

Ban Ki-moon at the Harvard Kennedy School’s Class Day

Adam Falk delivering his talk in academic robes

Commencement |

In Defense of Academic Freedom

Natalie Diaz and Adam Falk at the Phi Beta Kappa Exercises

An image of the covers for Stay True and Then the War, overlaid with a gold Pulitzer Prize medal

University News |

The 2023 Pulitzer Prizes

Carl Phillips and Hua Hsu honored in poetry and memoir

Jerome Offord, Jr., Sara Bleich, Meira Levinson, and Richard Cellini speak via video

University News |

Finding the Descendants of Enslavement

An update on the Harvard Slavery Remembrance Program, an HBCU library partnership, and curricula for teaching difficult institutional history

Montage of Harvey Mansfield at the podium with students in the foreground and the Yard in the background

University News |

Harvey Mansfield’s Last Class

After 60 years on the faculty, Harvard’s famous conservative is retiring.

President Bacow speaking with Ruth Simmons at Prairie View A&M University

John Harvard's Journal | May-June 2023

Acting on Slavery’s Legacy

A campus memorial, a senior adviser on engaging with HBCUs, reaching out to descendants, and teaching what has been learned

Roger Fu sits in front of a display case of rock samples

John Harvard's Journal | May-June 2023

Roger Fu

A paleomagnetics scholar who uses ancient rocks to peer into the early lives of Earth and Mars

Organizers hold signs advocating for a union of non-tenure-track workers during a February rally in Harvard Yard

John Harvard's Journal | May-June 2023

An Academic Worker’s Union?

Organizing efforts and tough wage negotiations on campus

Screenwriter Julian Breece working with a colleague on set

Montage | May-June 2023

Finding the Movie

Screenwriter Julian Breece on “writing from the soul”