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Ukrainian president urges help from students and institutional leaders.
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Retiring Harvard Corporation senior fellow William F. Lee on the University and its governance
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This image of Sagittarius A*, captured by the Event Horizon Telescope, is the first direct visual evidence of the presence of this supermassive black hole at the center of our galaxy.
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Scientists affiliated with the Event Horizon Telescope publish the first image of Sagittarius A*, the black hole at the center of the Milky Way Galaxy.
Steven Goldstein, emeritus professor of government at Smith College, with moderator Christopher Li, director of research at the Indo-Pacific Security Project and fellow at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs
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The East Asian implications of the Russia-Ukraine War
This plaque, placed on Wadsworth House in 2016, began Harvard’s public recognition of its legacy of slavery. The report issued today significantly deepens and broadens that understanding.
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A searching examination of the places kept “outside history,” and steps to come to terms with the University’s past
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After much debate, the Faculty of Arts and Sciences votes to adopt a system of previous-term registration for classes.
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Amid controversy, the representative student body is replaced.
The 2022 Harvard Horzions scholars
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Ph.D. students discuss subjects from aliens to infrastructural aesthetics.
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Katie Lapp
Photograph by Stephanie Mitchell/HPACAfter more than a decade, an institutional voice departs.
Erin Kelly and Salamishah Tillet honored for “searing” and “stylish” writing in biography and criticism
After much debate, the Faculty of Arts and Sciences votes to adopt a system of previous-term registration for classes.
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Deer Island’s giant steel eggs and wind turbines
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The strange, haunting magic of Boston Harbor's Deer Island
Ruby Red horsechestnut (Aesculus x carnea ‘Briotii’)
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Lesser-known plants with tricks up their sleeves (or, rather, stems)
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How the artist saw community—and the world
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President Bacow on maintaining University values while adopting the best lessons learned during the pandemic
The gains and losses from changes in Commencement and “shopping week”
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Ph.D. students discuss subjects from aliens to infrastructural aesthetics.
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Actor and producer Alex Molina on filming a feature-length thriller in a single take
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As an assistant coach at the University of Michigan, Moore helped lead the Wolverines to the NCAA Tournament's Elite Eight.
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She succeeds Kathy Delaney-Smith, who led the Crimson for 40 seasons.
Weld Boat House
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Comprehensive modernization to begin this year
Kathy Delaney-Smith
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In her final season, the Harvard women’s basketball coach stays “in the moment."
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May-June 2005
Letters
Getting Social Security Right I appreciate Professor Jeffrey B. Liebman’s recognition (“Reforming Social Security,&rdquo...
The College Pump
"Your wooden arm you hold outstretched to shake with passers-by." Of making books about Harvard there is no end, and...
Treasure
The Harvard Theater Collection has recently acquired from a London dealer a unique set of 124 miniature Indonesian shadow puppets and the gongs...
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Every day, most of us get in a car and drive. We adjust the temperature, maybe turn on the radio, and flip on the fan, never considering that...
Anne Bradstreet’s poem “To My Dear and Loving Husband,” a favorite at weddings, is one of the most anthologized examples of...
The study where Mark Helprin writes his novels and short stories, essays, speeches, letters, and Wall Street Journal columns is a spectacular...
A Persian prince of antiquity possessed hunting equipment of often inescapable effectiveness—a trained cheetah. See the manuscript painting...
In February 2004, when Harvard allotted an additional $2 million per year in scholarship funds for undergraduates from families with incomes of...
Letters
Getting Social Security Right I appreciate Professor Jeffrey B. Liebman’s recognition (“Reforming Social Security,&rdquo...
Right Now
Like the poems Emily Dickinson stored in her attic, or John Steinbeck’s repeatedly rejected early manuscripts, one of America’s...
If you were a bobolink thinking about breeding, you would avoid laying your eggs within three-quarters of a mile of either side of a busy...
If people expect to feel better from a pill or medical treatment, they just might, even if the pill is made of sugar or the treatment is a sham...
The most famous carnivore of the plant kingdom, the Venus flytrap, lures insects to its leafy green lips with a sweet-smelling scent, then snaps...
John Harvard's Journal
A sharp debate on University leadership and an unprecedented vote
Jacqueline Bhabha Photograph by Stu Rosner Even as a newborn in Bombay in 1951, Jacqueline Bhabha was involved in refugee issues: her...
1925 The Associated Harvard Clubs’ Committee on Service to the University suggests that descendants of Harvard graduates be given...
Harvard’s payments in lieu of taxes (PILOT) to the City of Cambridge have been renegotiated to include an escalator that will increase the...
The University is on a building boom of sorts. The campus was transformed in the post-World War II era, extending itself outward and upward in...
Had life gone according to his plan, Alan A. Altshuler would have spent one of the snowiest Cambridge winters on record in Singapore. Instead...
Finding Humanism listed among the 26 religions represented on the Board of Ministry at Harvard may seem curious, but Humanist chaplain Thomas...
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Addressing ambitious agendas and a May 1 deadline, the University’s twin task forces on women faculty and on women in science and...
Commencement VoicesThe Harvard Alumni Association’s guest speaker on Commencement afternoon, June 9, will be actor John A. Lithgow...
Few students can simultaneously attend their college graduation and their tenth class reunion. And it’s a rare undergraduate who has a...
This summer, professional sports will return to campus for the first time since the Boston (now the New England) Patriots played at Harvard...
The men’s swimming and diving team (8-0) won the Ivy championship and their eighth EISL title in the last 10 years, beating Princeton...
The senior-year job hunt began as many do: with the purchasing of a suit at the end of the summer. Mine was a black, pinstripe ensemble that my...
The senior marshals, looking ahead to Commencement 2005, are: (clockwise from top left) first marshal Caleb Franklin, of Leverett House and Los...
Alumni
Fred Ho ’79 has never owned a car, nor is he “married with children.” No boss dictates his workday, and he buys very little.
The University-wide on-line learning initiative, [email protected], has released several new programs. “Living Healthier, Living Longer: Part...
Alumni will choose five new Harvard Overseers and six new elected directors for the Harvard Alumni Association (HAA) in annual elections this...
Harvard clubs host lectures, seminars, and social gatherings. Following is a partial list of Harvard-affiliated speakers appearing at local club...
Harpsichordist Irma Rogell ’39 made her stage debut, in Boston’s Jordan Hall, at the age of 40. Her background, as the last pupil of...
Interviewing dogs can be a challenge, but fortunately Watson and Cricket have e-mail. Q: If you were recuperating in a hospital, who would you...
For screenwriter Keir Pearson ’89, success and social consciousness have gone hand in hand. His first script, Hotel Rwanda, co-written...
In October, Thunder’s Mouth Press released Vaginas: An Owner’s Manual by Liz Topp ’98 and her mother...
The College Pump
"Your wooden arm you hold outstretched to shake with passers-by." Of making books about Harvard there is no end, and...
Treasure
The Harvard Theater Collection has recently acquired from a London dealer a unique set of 124 miniature Indonesian shadow puppets and the gongs...