Nell Porter-Brown

Scroll depicting Commodore Perry’s 1853 invasion of Japan

Harvard Squared | September-October 2023

Speaking Volumes

Glimpsing Harvard’s East Asian language materials collection

A white haired professor emeritus standing by a stone wall in the woods explaining its origins

Harvard Squared | September-October 2023

Curiosities: Stone Walls, a Closer Look

Learning from the past through relics in Concord, Massachusetts

Watercolor painting of alligators in a swamp

Harvard Squared | July-August 2023

Master Watercolorists

Works by Sargent, Homer, and others at the Worcester Art Museum

Photograph of stone bridge over a pond in a park

Harvard Squared | July-August 2023

Happenings in Hartford

Literary legacies, parks, festivals—and more

Two women seated looking into the film camera, from Japanese film Tokyo Story

Harvard Squared | July-August 2023

Films by a Japanese Master

The Harvard Film Archive’s “Complete Ozu Yasujirō”

Portrait image of Walter Kim standing on a street with arms folded across his chest

University People | July-August 2023

A New Face of American Evangelicalism

Walter Kim aims for “a way forward even within difference.”

Alumni News |

New Members of Harvard Board of Overseers and Elected Directors of HAA

The new members of the Harvard Board of Overseers and Elected Directors of the HAA are announced. 

Photo of ROTC graduates being sworn in.

Commencement |

“Today You Join Something That Is Larger than Yourself”

Sixteen graduates were commissioned into the armed services at the ROTC ceremony.

The four recipients of the 2023 Harvard Medal, from left: Paula A. Johnson, Philip W. Lovejoy, Antonio Madero, Rya W. Zobel

Students & Alumni |

Harvard Medalists

Four people honored for extraordinary service to the University

Mary Louise Kelly

Students & Alumni |

Harvard Alumni Day Speaker Announced

NPR’s Mary Louise Kelly will address alumni June 2.

Usha Thakrar standing in the greenhouse production center at Stonefield Farm

University People | May-June 2023

“Something Is Very Broken”

Boston Area Gleaners fights hunger from the ground up.

Pick up trucks filled with colorful flowers

Harvard Squared | May-June 2023

Trading Finance for Flowers

Cultivating local blooms in Upton, Massachusetts