On the Cover: Illustration by Nicole Xu
Letters
Cambridge 02138
Correspondence about housing affordability, athletes’ success, antisemitism, teaching reading, and more
Category Errors
Skirmishing about what it means to protest
January-February 2025
On the Cover: Illustration by Nicole Xu
Features
Caring for the Caregivers
What it's like to look after a loved one with dementia
The Immunity Engineer
Teaching T-cells to kill cancer—and other feats of biomedical science
Barbara Lawrence
Brief life of an intrepid mammalogist: 1909-1997
Where the Grass Is Greener
Three distinguished scientists on leaving academia to advance biomedical research
RIGHT NOW Harvard research and ideas
Reforming Misdemeanors
In more misdemeanor cases, prosecutors should decline to proceed from the start.
In Africa, Food vs. Climate?
Improved agricultural practices could cut methane emissions to zero.
How Much Alcohol Is Safe?
Drinking alcohol increases cancer risk, but may protect against cardiovascular disease.
John Harvard's Journal University news
“Study-Ins” and Studying
Balancing academic requirements and free speech, in a semester calm enough to permit more focus on Harvard’s core strengths—and questions of governance
Jane Rosenzweig
Harvard Writing Center’s Jane Rosenzweig on AI and writing
Focus on Finances
Annual Harvard financial results, and a look at the Faculty of Arts and Sciences’ fisc and professoriate
Yesterday’s News
From the pages of the Harvard Alumni Bulletin and Harvard Magazine
News in Brief
Nobel honorands, institutional voice, civil discourse, Rhodes Scholars, and more
Another Title, Another Heartbreak
A shared Ivy football championship, after a loss in The Game
Montage Books, creative arts, performance and more
A Model City
Fred Gevalt’s astonishing and intricate diorama
Growing Pains
Actor and filmmaker Jacob Roberts’s Gen Z sensibility
Gathering Strings
Harpist Elisabeth Remy Johnson’s extended reach
Off the Shelf
Recent books about Iraq, academic writing, John Singer Sargent, “eldercide,” and more
A More Generous, Capacious America
The expansive literary scholarship of Werner Sollors
Justice and “Despair”
A critical analysis of “settler colonialism”
Harvard Squared What to do in Boston, Cambridge and beyond
Stop—and Ponder—the Presses
A unique museum in Haverhill, Massachusetts, offers a history of graphic arts.
Focus on West African Women
The Harvard Film Archive features works by director Rosine Mbakam
Janiva Ellis at the Carpenter Center
Newly finished paintings unveiled
University People Harvardians far and wide
Developing the Brain-Computer Interface
Benjamin Rapoport aims to aid neurology patients.
College Conversers
A Salon of “curious and earnest” inquisitors
Beyond Empowerment
On seeking feminist spaces on campus
