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Animal (Code) Cracker

After listening to leviathans, an undergraduate comes to conservation.  

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Alexander Heffner ’12 plumbs the state of democracy.

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Chinese Trade Dragons

How Will China’s Rapid Growth in the Clean Technology Industry Reshape U.S.-China Policy?

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New Home for ART Underway

American Repertory Theater’s Allston construction announced.

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Features | July-August 2024

Parks for Tomorrow

Bas Smets harnesses nature to cool cities.

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Reading the Winds

Thai sailor Sophia Montgomery competes in the Olympics.

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Health & Medicine |

Loneliness—Bad for Body and Mind

Harvard study finds link between loneliness and increased risk of stroke among older adults.

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University People
July-August 2024

“The Ingenuity of an Architect”

Kimberly Dowdell influences her profession—and the built environment.

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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.

David Gruber on the North Shore of Massachusetts

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July-August 2024

Decoding the Deep

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

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Harvard Squared
July-August 2024

Pioneer Valley Bounty

A local-food lovers’ paradise

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Freeze-dried woolly mammoths share their genetic secrets with scientists

The Washington Post | 7.11.2024

Read more on this topic in Harvard Magazine's article: The Context: Resurrecting the Woolly Mammoth and Engineering Life

College students study enough. What they need is more social life.

The Washington Post | 7.9.2024

Read more on this topic in Harvard Magazine's article: AWOL from Academics

Interim leader Alan Garber is running Harvard without expiration date: ‘Pretty clear that there’s no search’

The Boston Globe | 7.9.2024

Read more on this topic in Harvard Magazine's article: The Interim President’s Agenda

Every Elephant Has Its Own Name, Study Suggests

The New York Times | 6.13.2024

Read more on this topic in Harvard Magazine's article: Decoding the Deep

The Enormous Risks a Second Trump Term Poses to Our Economy

The New York Times | 7.8.2024

5 Minutes That Will Make You Love Wayne Shorter

The New York Times | 7.3.2024

Read more on this topic in Harvard Magazine's article: World Premiere of esperanza spalding and Wayne Shorter’s Opera, (Iphigenia)

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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.

Freeze-dried woolly mammoths share their genetic secrets with scientists

The Washington Post | 7.11.2024

Read more on this topic in Harvard Magazine's article: The Context: Resurrecting the Woolly Mammoth and Engineering Life

College students study enough. What they need is more social life.

The Washington Post | 7.9.2024

Read more on this topic in Harvard Magazine's article: AWOL from Academics

Interim leader Alan Garber is running Harvard without expiration date: ‘Pretty clear that there’s no search’

The Boston Globe | 7.9.2024

Read more on this topic in Harvard Magazine's article: The Interim President’s Agenda

Every Elephant Has Its Own Name, Study Suggests

The New York Times | 6.13.2024

Read more on this topic in Harvard Magazine's article: Decoding the Deep

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.

Freeze-dried woolly mammoths share their genetic secrets with scientists

The Washington Post | 7.11.2024

Read more on this topic in Harvard Magazine's article: The Context: Resurrecting the Woolly Mammoth and Engineering Life

College students study enough. What they need is more social life.

The Washington Post | 7.9.2024

Read more on this topic in Harvard Magazine's article: AWOL from Academics

Interim leader Alan Garber is running Harvard without expiration date: ‘Pretty clear that there’s no search’

The Boston Globe | 7.9.2024

Read more on this topic in Harvard Magazine's article: The Interim President’s Agenda

Read more articles

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Alexander Rehding

John Harvard's Journal
July-August 2019

Alexander Rehding

The Peabody professor of music, in brief

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

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

Features
July-August 2019

How Life Began

Jack Szostak’s pursuit of the biggest questions on Earth

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

Harvard Squared
July-August 2022

Seafaring America

Visiting Mystic, Connecticut

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

Mariana Quinn

John Harvard's Journal
July-August 2022

Tuning Pianos with Mariana Quinn

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

Photograph of surgical procedure

Features
May-June 2020

The World’s Costliest Health Care

Administrative costs, greed, overutilization—can these drivers of U.S. medical costs be curbed?