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“Edifying and Beautiful”

Botanical illustrations on display at Harvard’s rare book library

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Sarah Ganz Blythe

Sarah Ganz Blythe New Art Museums Director

Assumes Harvard post in August

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Taking Climate Action at Harvard

Focusing on prime polluting industries, plus politics and policy

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Big, Fat, and Sick – Can Digital Healthcare Help?

Harvard physicians on the future of medicine

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David Gruber on the North Shore of Massachusetts

Features | July-August 2024

Decoding the Deep

Project CETI’s pioneering effort to unlock the language of sperm whales

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University People | July-August 2024

The Missing Middle

How overheated political attention warps campus life

Hudson in a baseball cap with her easel and paints at a rocky seaside

Montage | July-August 2024

Art Al Fresco

Kathleen Hudson paints landscapes in the wild.

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University People
July-August 2024

Architect Kimberly Dowell is Changing Her Profession

Kimberly Dowdell influences her profession—and the built environment.

Corita Kent’s a man you can lean on (1966) plays with its medium: screenprints are not reversed in the making, but her image is.

Montage
July-August 2024

Harvard Professor on Printmaking

An art historian analyzes an overlooked medium.

People sit at tables in a basement. Windows on the ceiling allow light in.

John Harvard's Journal
July-August 2024

Dream Renovations to Harvard Yard Libraries

An ambitious plan for the next century of learning

Conceptual illustration of two human heads in outline, one filled with disconnected blocks, the other with random images.

Right Now
July-August 2024

How Schizophrenia Resembles the Aging Brain

The search for schizophrenia’s biological basis reveals an unexpected link to cellular changes seen in aging brains.

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Stanford’s top disinformation research group collapses under pressure

The Washington Post | 6.14.2024

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Supreme Court strikes down ban on bump stocks for guns

The Washington Post | 6.14.2024

Read more on this topic in Harvard Magazine's article: Using the Law for Good

Harvard Goes Only Halfway Toward Institutional Neutrality

The Wall Street Journal | 6.13.2024

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Miami President Named as Next U.C.L.A. Chancellor

The New York Times | 6.12.2024

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White House Announces Strategy to Keep Edible Food Out of Landfills

The New York Times | 6.12.2024

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I'm a Conservative. We Need to Make the Environment Nonpartisan.

The New York Times | 6.12.2024

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Stanford’s top disinformation research group collapses under pressure

The Washington Post | 6.14.2024

Read more on this topic in Harvard Magazine's article: Can Disinformation Be Stopped?

Supreme Court strikes down ban on bump stocks for guns

The Washington Post | 6.14.2024

Read more on this topic in Harvard Magazine's article: Using the Law for Good

Harvard Goes Only Halfway Toward Institutional Neutrality

The Wall Street Journal | 6.13.2024

Read more on this topic in Harvard Magazine's article: When Harvard Should—and Shouldn’t—Speak

Miami President Named as Next U.C.L.A. Chancellor

The New York Times | 6.12.2024

Read more on this topic in Harvard Magazine's article: Harvard Public Health Dean Julio Frenk to Depart

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Harvard in the headlines

Harvard Magazine sorts through news and commentary in other media and shares diverse views with you. Learn more.

Stanford’s top disinformation research group collapses under pressure

The Washington Post | 6.14.2024

Read more on this topic in Harvard Magazine's article: Can Disinformation Be Stopped?

Supreme Court strikes down ban on bump stocks for guns

The Washington Post | 6.14.2024

Read more on this topic in Harvard Magazine's article: Using the Law for Good

Harvard Goes Only Halfway Toward Institutional Neutrality

The Wall Street Journal | 6.13.2024

Read more on this topic in Harvard Magazine's article: When Harvard Should—and Shouldn’t—Speak

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Alexander Rehding

John Harvard's Journal
July-August 2019

Alexander Rehding in brief

The Peabody professor of music, in brief

Jack Szostak, in his lab at Massachusetts General Hospital, holds a model of a nucleic acid.

Features
July-August 2019

Jack Szostak pursues the biggest questions on Earth

Jack Szostak’s pursuit of the biggest questions on Earth

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July-August 2022

Seafaring America

Visiting Mystic, Connecticut

Mariana Quinn

John Harvard's Journal
July-August 2022

Tuning Pianos with Mariana Quinn

A former geologist follows her piano-tuner father’s footsteps.

Illustration of students choosing different paths through college

Features
July-August 2022

Investing vs. Harvesting

Why (and how) to help undergraduates make the most of their extracurriculars

Poster for Dos farkishefte shnayderl (the bewitched little tailor) in Paris, c. 1935

Treasure
July-August 2023

Charades with Chutzpah

Harvard’s Yiddish Theater Collection

Ursula Bailey working in a Harvard geology laboratory, 1945

Features
July-August 2023

Ursula B. Marvin

Brief life of a pioneering planetary geologist: 1921-2018