Jonathan Shaw

Harvard Magazine
Jonathan Shaw is Managing Editor.
The front and back of a die-cut trade card shaped like a donkey that was used to advertise coffee. When the card is flipped over, the viewer can see that there is a boy riding on the donkey's back.

Treasure | July-August 2021

Trade Cards, Eye-Catching Heralds of Mass-marketing

A nineteenth-century advertising medium traces the rise of consumer culture.

The directors of Harvard Medical School's master's programs applaud the graduates at the conclusion of the degree ceremony.

Commencement |

Words to Live By

A sampler of wisdom shared at Harvard’s graduate and professional school Commencement ceremonies

Commencement |

Centennial Medalists 2021

Four alumni of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences are honored.

University News |

Harvard May Avoid FY 2021 Operating Loss Despite Pandemic

Reduced expenses offset declines in revenue for FY 2021, helping Harvard avoid the layoffs that have eliminated one in eight jobs within higher education.

A photograph of the exterior of 60 Oxford Street, which will become a hub for quantum science and engineering at Harvard

University News |

Harvard to Launch Quantum Science and Engineering Ph.D. Program

Renovation of 60 Oxford Street will create a quantum hub where theorists and engineers work side by side.

Michael Mina holds up a rapid test during a Zoom call with journalists.

University News |

Rapid Tests, in Time for Fall Surge

Rapid COVID-19 tests, of the kind that Michael Mina has been advocating since last year, are finally approved for home use.

Illustration of a man pushing a wheelbarrow full of petitions up the steps to Congress.

Right Now | May-June 2021

Why Petitioning is Vital for Democracies

Petitioning campaigns are a vital complement to democratic voting.

Photograph of earth scientist Andrew Knoll at work in the field

Montage | May-June 2021

Andrew Knoll, “A Brief History of Earth,” reviewed by Jonathan Shaw

Andrew Knoll on the planet’s past—and fraught future

William "Bill" Kristol

University News |

A Failed Peaceful Transfer of Presidential Power

Bill Kristol discusses the future of the Republican Party and the survival of American constitutional democracy. 

The homepage of the nonprofit Potential Energy Coalition, showing a blue circle superimposed on a black-and-white photograph of the ocean

University News |

Making Voters Care About Climate Change

A professor and a marketing professional try a new tack in climate-change communications.

The main atrium in Harvard's new Science and Engineering Complex

University News |

LEED Platinum and ILFI recognition for Science and Engineering Complex

Harvard leveraged construction of its new Science and Engineering Complex to remove harmful chemicals from building-materials supply chains.

Proposed massing and configuration of new buildings on Harvard's enterprise research campus

The Changing Campus |

Allston Research Campus Takes Form

Tishman Speyer details the first phase of the “enterprise research campus”—and points to a doubling of the project’s ultimate size.