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Harvard Students form Pro-Palestine Encampment

Protesters set up camp in Harvard Yard.

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Artificial Intelligence in the Academy

Harvard symposium assesses the new technology.

Teaching & Learning |

Event advertisement for pernicious prejudice panel

How Does Hate Spread?

Harvard symposium probes antisemitic, Islamophobic sentiments

University News |

Sam Altman

Sam Altman’s Vision for the Future

OpenAI CEO on progress, safety, and policy

Science & Technology |

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Harvard Coop’s Changing of the Guard

New leadership for a staple Square retailer

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Mina Cikara in a classroom with two groups of students

Features | May-June 2024

The Gravity of Groups

Mina Cikara explores how people come into conflict, in politics and beyond

The opening display of the exhibit, showing introductory text and a large photograph of Harriet Hayden

Arts & Culture |

The Picture of Freedom

A Boston Athenaeum exhibit explores an abolitionist with Harvard ties.

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Portrait of Cardinal Robert W. McElroy

University People
May-June 2024

Harvard Cardinal Robert W. McElroy on the Changing Catholic Church

Cardinal Robert W. McElroy on how the Catholic Church has moved towards inclusivity.

Abstract illustration of a humanoid looking AI scanning health records

Right Now
May-June 2024

AI as Cancer Oracle?

How is artificial intelligence (AI) being used for cancer detection and prevention?

Portrait of Benjamin Smith Lyman circa 1909

Features
May-June 2024

The Harvard Graduate and Early Vegetarian Benjamin Smith Lyman

Brief life of the vegetarian trailblazer, 1835-1920

A clay sculpture of a robed angel.

Treasure
May-June 2024

Bernini’s Model Masterpieces at the Harvard Art Museums

Thirteen sculptures from Gian Lorenzo Bernini at Harvard Art Museums.

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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.

Storm chase diary: Intercepting a trio of tornadoes in Texas

The Washington Post | 5.3.2024

Read more on this topic in Harvard Magazine's article: Meteorologist Matthew Cappucci’s Weather Obsession

Harvard Protesters Say, ‘Talk to the Pole’

The Wall Street Journal | 5.2.2024

Read more on this topic in Harvard Magazine's article: Harvard Students form Pro-Palestine Encampment

Helen Vendler’s Generous Mind

The New Yorker | 4.30.2024

Read more on this topic in Harvard Magazine's article: A Nearly Perfect Book

Harvard should shut down campus occupations

The Boston Globe | 4.29.2024

Read more on this topic in Harvard Magazine's article: Harvard Students form Pro-Palestine Encampment

‘People don’t come running ... for radishes.’ At farms across the state, the flower business is blooming.

The Boston Globe | 4.30.2024

Read more on this topic in Harvard Magazine's article: Trading Finance for Flowers

Harvard’s Protesters Aren’t as Obstinate as You Might Expect

The Wall Street Journal | 4.30.2024

Read more on this topic in Harvard Magazine's article: Is Harvard Campus Conversation Constrained?

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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.

Storm chase diary: Intercepting a trio of tornadoes in Texas

The Washington Post | 5.3.2024

Read more on this topic in Harvard Magazine's article: Meteorologist Matthew Cappucci’s Weather Obsession

Harvard Protesters Say, ‘Talk to the Pole’

The Wall Street Journal | 5.2.2024

Read more on this topic in Harvard Magazine's article: Harvard Students form Pro-Palestine Encampment

Helen Vendler’s Generous Mind

The New Yorker | 4.30.2024

Read more on this topic in Harvard Magazine's article: A Nearly Perfect Book

Harvard should shut down campus occupations

The Boston Globe | 4.29.2024

Read more on this topic in Harvard Magazine's article: Harvard Students form Pro-Palestine Encampment

Read more articles

Harvard in the headlines

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

Storm chase diary: Intercepting a trio of tornadoes in Texas

The Washington Post | 5.3.2024

Read more on this topic in Harvard Magazine's article: Meteorologist Matthew Cappucci’s Weather Obsession

Harvard Protesters Say, ‘Talk to the Pole’

The Wall Street Journal | 5.2.2024

Read more on this topic in Harvard Magazine's article: Harvard Students form Pro-Palestine Encampment

Helen Vendler’s Generous Mind

The New Yorker | 4.30.2024

Read more on this topic in Harvard Magazine's article: A Nearly Perfect Book

Read more articles

From our archives

Illustration about meritocracy: one mother penguin and chick wear college mortarboards, while another mother penguin and her chick don’t.

Montage
September-October 2020

Michael Sandel’s “The Tyranny of Merit” reviewed by Spencer Lenfield

Michael Sandel makes the case against meritocracy.

Portrait photograph of Maggie Shipstead

Montage
May-June 2021

Novelist Maggie Shipstead and “Great Circle”

Maggie Shipstead’s time-spanning, globe-circling new novel

A rendering of MASS Design’s proposal to reclaim the waterfront and renew Poughkeepsie’s center

Features
May-June 2023

Building a Better World

MASS Design’s healing architecture

Boardwalk by Taunton River and Braga Bridge overhead

Harvard Squared
May-June 2023

Fall River: Phoenix Rising?

“A good place to be pleasantly surprised”

Realistic diorama of an old growth forest

Treasure
May-June 2023

The Harvard Forest Dioramas

Scenes of an ever-changing forest, in miniature

An illustration of people engaging in vigorous, animated dialogue

Features
May-June 2021

Humanities and democratic discourse belong together

Active citizens are humanists.

Pediatrician Eileen Costello stands next to the Boston Medical Center’s mobile pediatric clinic.

Alumni
May-June 2021

Pediatrician Eileen Costello, profiled by Nell Porter Brown

A pediatrician cares for a city’s children.

John Harvard's Journal
May-June 2022

The Truth About Imposter Syndrome

Thoughts on a perennial undergraduate complaint