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Where undergrads grow into scientists
Tom Weber and mentor Laura Ostrowsky in a bucket lift at Harvard Forest

Where undergrads grow into scientists

Deep in the woods of Petersham, Mass., the Harvard Forest Summer Research Program in Ecology is cultivating a renewable resource — future generations of scientists.

At age 101, alum gifts ‘big, geometric, colorful’ artwork to the FAS
David Bakalar stands before one of his Albert Einstein-inspired “Brain Series” paintings, newly installed on the Harvard University campus at Zimmer Hall.

At age 101, alum gifts ‘big, geometric, colorful’ artwork to the FAS

When David Bakalar first set foot at Harvard, he was a 17-year-old child of immigrants commuting by bus from Lynn, Mass., his $500 “nonresident scholarship” covering tuition and a study space at Leverett House but not room and board.

Sean Ono Lennon talks human empathy, AI with Harvard fellows
Podcast host Matt Whyte with philosophy professor Jason D’Cruz, musician Sean Ono Lennon, and psychology professor Anat Perry

Sean Ono Lennon talks human empathy, AI with Harvard fellows

The singer-songwriter, who recently released a concept album threaded with AI skepticism, appeared with two Harvard-affiliated researchers on the Singing for Science podcast.

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On the urgency of reining in A’s
A stack of test blue books. Photo credit David Degner

On the urgency of reining in A’s

The proposal to rein in inflated grading at Harvard College has dominated campus discussion and ricocheted around the Ivy League and across higher education since its Feb. 6 release.

From the Studio – A New Era in International Economics
Panelists Gita Gopinath (Economics), Carmen M. Reinhart (Harvard Kennedy School), and Dani Rodrik (Harvard Kennedy School) and host Ralph Ranalli

From the Studio – A New Era in International Economics

FAS Dean of Social Science David M. Cutler recently convened a "From The Studio" FAS Symposium featuring three faculty experts to discuss urgent issues facing the global economy.