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Claudine Gay announces the advisory committee for successor to Frank Doyle.
Long COVID Symptoms
Healthy lifestyle factors may reduce the risk of long COVID symptoms, including fatigue, attention disorders, memory loss, shortness of breath, digestive disorders, and anxiety and depression.
Harvard researchers find that lifestyle factors like weight and sleep are associated with reduced risk.
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Long COVID Symptoms
Healthy lifestyle factors may reduce the risk of long COVID symptoms, including fatigue, attention disorders, memory loss, shortness of breath, digestive disorders, and anxiety and depression.
Harvard researchers find that lifestyle factors like weight and sleep are associated with reduced risk.
A genetic analysis of long-lived species of rockfish has led to fresh insights into human longevity, and a previously unappreciated pathway governing lifespan.
ExxonMobil scientists' projections of global warming were at least as good as those of government and academic scientists in the period from 1977 to 2003.
Photomontage illustration by Niko Yaitanes/Harvard Magazine; photographs by Unsplash
What fossil fuel interests knew about climate change, and when
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Harvard Law students, and others, critique legal practice.
The complicated return to campus post-pandemic
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Lessons from Bangkok presented at the Harvard Graduate School of Design
Top row, left to right: Sylvia Mathews Burwell, Jeffrey D. Dunn, Arturo Elizondo, Srishti Gupta Narasimhan
Bottom row, left to right: Fiona Hill, Vanessa W. Liu, Robert L. Satcher Jr., Luis A. UbiñasPhotographs courtesy of HAA; photomontage by Harvard Magazine
The 2023 nominees detail their experiences and view of Harvard’s challenges and prospects.
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The author (center) celebrates after her recital performance in Holden Chapel with friends Kelsey Ichikawa ’20 (left) and Stephanie Tang ’20.
Photograph courtesy of Julie Chung
A Harvard singing class that's about more than music
The honorees will visit Cambridge next week for a parade, a show, and a (loving) roast.
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Carrie Moore is in her first year as Delaney-Smith head coach of women's basketball.
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Carrie Moore’s first season coaching the women’s basketball team
Edwin Bancroft Henderson and the history behind the Harvard-Howard game
Trampoline parks—fun for all ages
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The honorees will visit Cambridge next week for a parade, a show, and a (loving) roast.
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Shelby Meyerhoff uses body paint and photography to transform herself into creatures and scenes from the natural world. Photograph: a blue-ringed octopus
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Shelby Meyerhoff’s liminal, liberating body painting
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