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An Interfaith Answer to Campus Tensions

Discussing religious pluralism at Harvard Divinity School 

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Update: Harvard Encampment Ends

As protest numbers dwindled, organizers and administrators reached an agreement

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Harvard Students form Pro-Palestine Encampment

Protesters set up camp in Harvard Yard.

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Harvard Discloses Administrator and Investment Manager Compensation

The annual release on leaders’ most recent pay

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Finding Harvard’s Voice

Danielle Allen’s educational vision

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University People | May-June 2024

The Case for Indeterminacy

The purpose of the humanities, at Harvard and in the world

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Harvard’s Year That Was

Amid academic honors, the Faculty of Arts and Sciences focuses on the campus protest and task forces on antisemitism, anti-Muslim bias, civil discourse, and institutional voice.

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May-June 2024

Dominica’s “Bouyon” Star

Musician “Shelly” Alfred’s indigenous Caribbean sound

Pouring the creamy “Sai Gon Latte” at Cicada Coffee Bar in Central Square

Harvard Squared
May-June 2024

What is the Best Breakfast and Lunch in Harvard Square?

The cafés and restaurants of Harvard Square sure to impress for breakfast and lunch.

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. 

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 Reaches Agreement With Protesters to End Encampment

The New York Times | 5.14.2024

Read more on this topic in Harvard Magazine's article: Update: Harvard Encampment Ends

Harvard protesters say they are ending pro-Palestinian encampment: ‘This tactic has outlasted its utility’

The Boston Globe | 5.14.2024

Read more on this topic in Harvard Magazine's article: Update: Harvard Encampment Ends

The Long, Steep Fall of an Online Education Giant

The Wall Street Journal | 5.12.2024

Read more on this topic in Harvard Magazine's article: edX Exit and Axim Online Education Venture Debuts

UMass Amherst commencement speaker withdraws after police arrest campus protesters

The Boston Globe | 5.9.2024

Read more on this topic in Harvard Magazine's article: A Literary Chameleon

Google helps Harvard scientists map the human brain

The Boston Globe | 5.10.2024

Read more on this topic in Harvard Magazine's article: Jeff Lichtman Appointed Dean of Science

No One Knows What Universities Are For

The Atlantic | 5.8.2024

Read more on this topic in Harvard Magazine's article: Governance Reform from Below?

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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.

Harvard Reaches Agreement With Protesters to End Encampment

The New York Times | 5.14.2024

Read more on this topic in Harvard Magazine's article: Update: Harvard Encampment Ends

Harvard protesters say they are ending pro-Palestinian encampment: ‘This tactic has outlasted its utility’

The Boston Globe | 5.14.2024

Read more on this topic in Harvard Magazine's article: Update: Harvard Encampment Ends

The Long, Steep Fall of an Online Education Giant

The Wall Street Journal | 5.12.2024

Read more on this topic in Harvard Magazine's article: edX Exit and Axim Online Education Venture Debuts

UMass Amherst commencement speaker withdraws after police arrest campus protesters

The Boston Globe | 5.9.2024

Read more on this topic in Harvard Magazine's article: A Literary Chameleon

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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.

Harvard Reaches Agreement With Protesters to End Encampment

The New York Times | 5.14.2024

Read more on this topic in Harvard Magazine's article: Update: Harvard Encampment Ends

Harvard protesters say they are ending pro-Palestinian encampment: ‘This tactic has outlasted its utility’

The Boston Globe | 5.14.2024

Read more on this topic in Harvard Magazine's article: Update: Harvard Encampment Ends

The Long, Steep Fall of an Online Education Giant

The Wall Street Journal | 5.12.2024

Read more on this topic in Harvard Magazine's article: edX Exit and Axim Online Education Venture Debuts

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

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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