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Our September-October 2026 issue is FREE online!
On the cover: the early days of first days of Facebook on Harvard's campus.
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The Harvard Graduate Students Union-United Auto Workers (HGSU-UAW) announced this week that it would open a strike authorization vote on Monday, threatening to renew a 40-day walkout that ended in June without a contract. harvardmagazine.com/universi…
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At Harvard’s IOP, Two Views of Diversity Get a Hearing - Professor Cornell William Brooks and Heritage Foundation president Kevin Roberts hold a lively debate on DEI and Project 2025. #harvard #dei
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Who was J. Max Bond Jr. ’55, M.Arch. ’58, the Harvard-trained architect designed major national landmarks—including the Martin Luther King Jr. Center and the National Museum of African American History and Culture?
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The Arctic is changing faster than almost anywhere on Earth. Harvard's Arctic Initiative @HKSArctic, launched in 2017, brings together researchers to examine these problems and map out opportunities for action.
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Harvard Law School @Harvard_Law has launched the National Security Law and Policy Initiative (NSLPI). The program’s launch on September 9 dovetailed with the 25th anniversary of the September 11.
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Associate professor of biomedical informatics Marinka Zitnik and colleagues @harvardmed @KempnerInst have developed an artificial intelligence system that analyzes thousands of genes in a patient’s tumor.
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Infection with Epstein-Barr Virus (EBV)—the virus that causes mononucleosis—greatly increases risk of developing multiple sclerosis (MS). Kjetil Bjornevik @HarvardChanSPH and Natalia Drosu @harvardmed have uncovered a picture of how that works.
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David Mooney @hseas and his colleagues have developed Implantable Living Materials, or ILMs: helpful bacteria encapsulated in a tough, stiff hydrogel that could be surgically implanted in a patient.
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“Today we embrace you as members of the University community,” Garber told the Class of 2030 during the first of two divided-up Convocation ceremonies on Tuesday. Read the remarks given to the First-Years.
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At Harvard's First-Year convocation on Tuesday, President Alan M. Garber used the traditional Memorial Church address to consider the unique qualities of human intelligence and learning in the context of AI and technological change.
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Babies and young children with congenital heart defects often face repeated open-heart surgeries as they get older because current devices to replace heart valves don’t grow with the child. @harvardmed alum Sitaram Emani M.D. ’97 found a solution.
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Scientists at @harvardmed have created the first detailed “map” of how the sense of smell is organized, helping to solve a longstanding mystery in biology.
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Five years ago, Kjetil Bjornevik and his colleagues at @HarvardChanSPH found that infection with Epstein-Barr Virus (EBV)—the virus that causes mononucleosis—greatly increased a patient’s risk of developing multiple sclerosis (MS).
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Alexander Pascal, the executive director of Harvard’s @BKCHarvard, argues that policymakers should resist the temptation to treat AI as a category of technology requiring an entirely new policy vocabulary.
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Nathan Heller ’06 wrote this Undergraduate column for the September-October 2004 issue of Harvard Magazine about the earliest days of Thefacebook (now Facebook) on Harvard's campus.
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Our September-October 2026 cover story "How Facebook Escaped Harvard" by Noam Cohen explores the origins of Facebook on Harvard University's campus in 2004.
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What is the true cost of light pollution? Early this century, scientists began asking what light pollution was doing to animals—and found challenges “impossible to ignore.”
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How do you decide where to put a data center that will consume as much power as a small city? A Harvard biostatistician and an electrical engineer have built a framework for helping policymakers decide where data centers should go.
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Singer-songwriter Elisa Smith—whose real name is Leah Waldo, Ed.M. ’15—is making her mark on Boston’s country scene, drawing inspiration from Loretta Lynn, Led Zeppelin, and beyond.
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