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Madeline Benson singing at the piano, her face lit up on an otherwise dark stage

Montage | July-August 2024

Broadway Director from Harvard Adapting Disney

Broadway music director Madeline Benson on art and collaboration

Man wearing red Harvard baseball cap addresses audience form podium

Commencement |

Harvard Alumni Day with Courtney B. Vance

Protest interruptions and a call to do “the right thing” 

Harvard University shield

University News |

When Harvard Should—And Shouldn’t—Speak

A final report from the faculty working group on institutional neutrality

Vice Admiral Philip Cullom addresses audience at Sanders Theater

Commencement |

Carrying a “Heavy Pack”

The largest Harvard ROTC cohort in 30 years is commissioned into the armed services.

Drew Gilpin Faust in robes at the podium in Sanders Theater

Commencement |

The “Dangers and Duties that Lie Ahead”

Drew Giplin Faust and Tracy K. Smith at the Phi Beta Kappa Exercises

Diane Eck with microphone addressing group

University News |

An Interfaith Answer to Harvard Campus Tensions

Discussing religious pluralism at Harvard Divinity School 

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.

College students, one with a trump, another with an upright bass, gather around a piano with Dizzy Gillespie, who plays his trumpet while a student pianist also plays

University News |

A New Chapter for Harvard Arts

The Office for the Arts turns 50, and its longtime director steps down.

a lecture hall opening to a cityscape demonstrating homelessness

Health & Medicine |

Academia’s Absence from Homelessness

“The lack of dedicated research funding in this area is a major, major problem.”

a bar of chocolate next to a pile of cacao beans

University News |

The Dark History Behind Chocolate

A Harvard course on the politics and culture of food

Princess Marie and Jensen pose beside Jensen's finished portrait of the princess

University People | May-June 2024

Harvard Portraitist Nina Skov Jensen Paints Celebrities and Princesses

Nina Skov Jensen ’25, portraitist for collectors and the princess of Denmark. 

Black and White photograph of Cynthia Zarin

Montage | May-June 2024

Poet Cynthia Zarin's Debut Novel "Inverno"

Poet Cynthia Zarin ’81’s first novel Inverno, a study in yearning and desire.