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.
Sustainability and Food Production in Africa
Improved agricultural practices could cut methane emissions to zero.
How Harvard is Tackling Methane Emissions to Combat Climate Change
How Harvard scientists hope to slow near-term climate change
Artists Respond to the Climate Crisis at the Lahore Biennale
At the Lahore Biennale, artists respond to the climate crisis.
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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