Nina Pasquini

Nina Pasquini is a staff writer for Harvard Magazine. She graduated from Harvard College in 2021 and joined the magazine in 2023. She writes about education, the arts, and artificial intelligence, with a focus on how public policy shapes individual lives. Her feature on how “science of reading” reforms can obscure structural challenges in literacy education was one of the magazine’s most-read stories of 2024. (Read her behind-the-scenes account of reporting that article.) Before Harvard Magazine, she reported from Paris, Seoul, and Raleigh. She won a North Carolina Press Association Award for her feature on musicians’ mental health struggles during the pandemic for the Raleigh News & Observer.

Harvard’s Gilbert and Sullivan Players, Then and Now

Students adapt the operettas to changing times.

Lee Junseok Wants to Remake Korean Politics

South Korea’s Lee Junseok tries to break old binaries.

Liv Redpath on “What You Can Say” Through Opera

Liv Redpath’s operatic trajectory

Using Generative AI to Predict Viral Mutations and Develop Vaccines

Biomedical researchers are using AI to survey the viral landscape.

25 Years of the Radcliffe Institute

A “messy experiment” in creative, interdisciplinary research

Harvard to Keep Arthur Sackler’s Name on Museum and Building

The decision marks the first time the University’s new denaming review process has played out in full. 

In 'Homeland,' n+1 writer Richard Beck excavates the War on Terror

How the War on Terror reshaped American life

A Right Way to Teach Reading?

The science, art, and politics of teaching an essential skill

Susan Farbstein on Human Rights Law

Human rights lawyer on law’s ability to promote justice—and shape public understanding

Harvard Philosophy Professor Alison Simmons on "Being a Minded Thing"

A philosopher on perception, the canon, and being “a minded thing” 

Dream Renovations to Harvard Yard Libraries

An ambitious plan for the next century of learning

American Citizenship Through Photography

How photographs promote social justice