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The Ethical Conundrum of The Martian, According to a Harvard Bioethicist
Glenn Cohen liked The Martian, which this morning earned itself seven nominations in the Academy Awards, including a slot in the coveted Best Picture category. […]
GentriWatch: It Was Nice Knowing You, Allston
Welcome to GentriWatch, where we look for signs of gentrification happening around the city. DEVELOPERS ARE LICKING their chops, eyeing up the area surrounding Western […]
Harvard Kennedy School Professor to Advise FIFA on Human Rights
2015 wasn’t exactly a banner year for FIFA, what with all the covert arrests, indictments, and sweeping allegations of corruption—never mind the displacement in Rio […]
Controversial JFK Library Foundation CEO Departs for Harvard
JFK Library Foundation chief executive officer Heather Campion has resigned, departing for a consulting gig at Harvard University. Campion’s nearly two years as CEO of the nonprofit that […]
Harvard Evacuates Four Buildings After Unconfirmed Bomb Threat
Update: Monday, 3:50 p.m. Searches of Emerson and Sever Halls have been completed and the buildings have been reopened, along with entry to the Yard. […]
MIT, Harvard Scientists Discover Earth-Sized New Planet Orbiting Nearby Star
It’s that old story of two old rivals overcoming their differences to discover a new Earth-sized exoplanet. Classic. Astrophysicists at MIT have discovered a hot, rocky planet […]
Harvard Takes First Official Step on Lower Allston Expansion
Harvard University took its first official step on its expansion into Lower Allston on Monday, filing plans with the Boston Redevelopment Authority for “activating Barry’s Corner” […]
Harvard Launches Website for Colonial North American Project
Earlier this week, Harvard University unveiled the online component of its Colonial North American Project, unveiling a website with a searchable database of digitized 17th- and […]
Is a Harvard MBA Worth It?
Prospective Harvard Business School students are preparing for admissions interviews, scheduled to take place in Boston, New York City, Menlo Park, or abroad between October […]
Harvard Lampoon Will Crown Jimmy Fallon as ‘Emperor of Comedy’
Jimmy Fallon—Tonight Show host, Saturday Night Live alum, and Justin Timberlake BFF (see: “History of Rap,” parts one through six)—will be crowned as “Emperor of Comedy” this […]
Harvard’s Radcliffe Institute Displays a Touch-Sensitive Digital Artwork
There’s a clear, unspoken rule enforced in most museum and gallery settings: Don’t touch the art. But currently, that’s not the case inside the Johnson-Kulukundis […]
Leaked Memo Reveals Harvard’s Strategy for Handling Graduate Student Unionization
In case you missed it, a group of Harvard graduate students are trying to unionize. Seeking a more centralized complaint system and greater leverage in negotiations with […]
Bard College-Educated Prisoners Defeat Harvard Debate Team
A group of inmates from the Eastern New York Correctional Facility in the Catskills defeated the Harvard College Debating Union at the maximum-security prison last month. The debate, […]
Muhammad Ali, Nas to Receive Du Bois Medal at Harvard
So the greatest boxer of all-time, the greatest MC of all-time, and a U.S. Attorney General walk into Harvard… This year’s recipients of the school’s W.E.B. Du Bois […]