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Currently dean of the Rice University School of Architecture, Whiting will assume her new post on July 1.
Alan Gilbert ’65, Ph.D. ’74 (twice suspended, separated, and readmitted in 1973 by a two-thirds faculty vote) speaks at a gathering of current and former student activists three days before Friday’s conference.
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A conference looks back at Harvard’s 1969 student strike.
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Her book Amity and Prosperity: One Family and the Fracturing of America is the choice in general nonfiction.
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Could inflammation be the cause of myriad chronic conditions?
Modern psychiatrists revived the effort to link mental illness to biology, begun in the 1840s by scientists like Emil Kraepelin.
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A history of psychiatry’s troubled search for the biology of mental illness
Illustration by Robert Neubecker
What the rare bright spots in American high-school education teach
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After missing the first few games of the 2019 season with a concussion, Skinner has been among the Ivy League leaders in on-base percentage.
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For speedy center fielder Ben Skinner, slowing down is key.
Red Rocks Conservation Area, in Gloucester, Massachusetts
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Rock climbing in Greater Boston—and beyond
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The author’s father, Noah Gibson, playing fiddle with friends at an Irish music session
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A personal story about caregiving and empathy
Alan Gilbert ’65, Ph.D. ’74 (twice suspended, separated, and readmitted in 1973 by a two-thirds faculty vote) speaks at a gathering of current and former student activists three days before Friday’s conference.
Photograph by Lydia S.C. Rosenberg/Harvard Magazine
A conference looks back at Harvard’s 1969 student strike.
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Her book Amity and Prosperity: One Family and the Fracturing of America is the choice in general nonfiction.
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Seafood ceviche at Celeste, in Somerville
Photograph courtesy of the restaurant
An eclectic array of favored restaurants in Greater Boston
Red Rocks Conservation Area, in Gloucester, Massachusetts
Photograph by Vladislav Sevostianov
Rock climbing in Greater Boston—and beyond
Woman Running to Escape a Sudden Shower, c. 1765-70, by Suzuki Harunobu
Image courtesy of the Harvard Art Museums ©President and Fellows of Harvard College.
Harvard’s enticing Japanese woodblock prints
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President Bacow on friendships formed among and between scholars and students
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Her book Amity and Prosperity: One Family and the Fracturing of America is the choice in general nonfiction.
Jocelyn and Chris Arndt, siblings from Fort Plain, New York, balanced a full-time tour schedule and undergraduate life.
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For two Harvard siblings, studying and songwriting went hand in hand.
Accidental comics writer Amy Chu
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Graphic novelist Amy Chu
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Red Rocks Conservation Area, in Gloucester, Massachusetts
Photograph by Vladislav Sevostianov
Rock climbing in Greater Boston—and beyond
Noah Kirkwood ’22, the Ivy League Rookie of the Year, emerged as one of Harvard’s top offensive threats.
Photograph by Gavin Baker/Sideline Photos
Basketball teams fall short of NCAAs again.
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Illustration by Mark Steele
Demonstrating for equality…and other headlines from Harvard’s history
After graduating from the College in 1861, Holmes obtained a commission as first lieutenant in the Twentieth Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry, known as the “Harvard Regiment.”
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A new biography of Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. illuminates the Supreme Court during the centennial of his most momentous dissent.
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Resesarchers’ lengthy labors, “Diploma Riots,” supporting young scholars
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Illustration by Kasia Bogdanska
Could inflammation be the cause of myriad chronic conditions?
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American activists unfurl a banner in front of the Supreme Court.
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An historian tracks the death penalty’s persistence in America.
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At the Malkin Athletic Center, fencer Eunice Yi '04 (right) slashes at her opponent with a saber. Yi is one of the top fencers on Harvard's improving team (see "Saber-Fighting Warrior").
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