
The team with mentors (from left): Kale Catchings, Percy Green, Saul Glist, Robin McDowell, Catie Barr, Jamala Rogers, and the author.
Photograph courtesy of Che R. Applewhaite
The Undergraduate learns about making knowledge mutual.
May-June 2021

Illustration by Mark Steele
Headlines from Harvard’s history
May-June 2021

Harvard's acceptance rate drops as applications rise.
Image courtesy of Wikimedia Commons/Daderot
Harvard admits a record-low 3.4 percent of applicants
4.6.21

Cabot House members cheered up the wintry Quad with their hand-crafted ice lanterns.
Photograph courtesy of Cabot House faculty dean Ian Miller and resident dean Meg Lockwood.
Undergraduate Houses experiment and innovate in attempts to revive the effervescence that once characterized their student communities.
3.26.21

March 2018, Randolph Courtyard: The author (center) and her two future roommates, Sreya at left and Pranati at right, have just run over from the Yard on Housing Day, having learned they’d been assigned to Adams House.
Photograph courtesy of Meena Venkataramanan.
The College’s annual “Housing Day” dramas, conducted online.
3.8.21

President Lawrence S. Bacow
Taking stock of a pandemic year, President Bacow sketches how Harvard might change—and where it will not.
3.8.21

Noah Evers ’22 and his grandmother Patricia Greenfield ’62, Ph.D. ’66
Photo by Lauren Greenfield ’87
A Harvard grandmother’s—and grandson’s—research
2.22.21