The Harvard Gazette April 1, 2026
 
Arthur C. Brooks.
Arthur C. Brooks.
When to leave your job, and other rules for living 

An excerpt from Arthur C. Brooks’s “The Meaning of Your Life.”
 
Dmitry Yakushkin
Dmitry Yakushkin
Writing us back from the brink

Researcher found something “precious” in letters exchanged by Kennedy, Khrushchev during Cuban Missile Crisis.
 
Chenxi Cai’s set design for Madama Butterfly “transforms the opera into a contemporary cautionary tale about unequal relationships and cultural misunderstanding.​”
Chenxi Cai’s set design for Madama Butterfly “transforms the opera into a contemporary cautionary tale about unequal relationships and cultural misunderstanding.​”
Design students rise to an operatic challenge

“If you start saying that whatever the AI gives you is good enough — then it’s not good.”
 
Sylvia Mathews Burwell ‘87 and Michael S. Chae ‘90.
Sylvia Mathews Burwell ‘87 and Michael S. Chae ‘90.
Two new Corporation members

Sylvia Mathews Burwell and Michael S. Chae to join governing board.
 

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Office for the Arts

Through Sunday.
 

Reflections in Black: A Reframing

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5:30 p.m. Thursday.
 

‘Henry David Thoreau’: Screening and Discussion

Center for the Study of World Religions

2 p.m. Friday.
 
 

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