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Mikhail Lukin
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The co-director of the quantum science and engineering initiative receives Harvard's highest faculty honor.
Tom Hanks
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The actor and filmmaker will be Harvard’s guest speaker on May 25.
Nancy Hopkins (center) stands with Salvador Luria (left) and David Baltimore at the MIT Cancer Center in the 1980s.
Photograph courtesy of MIT Museum
New book on Nancy Hopkins speaks to women's fight for equality then—and their fight now
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Horsemanship appears to have played a key role in the spread of the Yamnaya people.
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New evidence on domestication of horses—and the spread of an ancient Eurasian culture
The Salata Institute has chosen five teams to pursue solutions to a variety of climate-change impacts.
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Teams of Harvard researchers will develop concrete proposals for addressing specific climate impacts.
Illustration by Nicole Xu
As the ranks of the elderly swell, there are too few housing options for seniors who want to “age in place.”
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Chris Ledlum makes a breakaway dunk after stealing the ball during a game last November against Loyola Chicago.
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Chris Ledlum ’23 makes his mark on the hardcourt.
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Henry Clarke Warren, 1879
Photograph courtesy of Harvard University ArchivesBrief life of a Harvard-educated Buddhist scholar: 1854-1899
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Alexandra Petri introduces the poet to tech support for help with her keyboard.
Alejandro Montagna (center) wearing in his webbed wingsuit, preparing to fly
Photograph courtesy of Alejandro MontagnaWingsuit skydiver Alejandro Montagna on minimizing risk—at 150 mph
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Caring for your home
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Spring is the perfect time to touch up your property
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Marquetry artist Alison Elizabeth Taylor at the Addison Gallery of American Art
Digital reconstruction of tiles showing Richard the Lionheart and Saladin
Image ©Janis Desmarais and Amanda Luyster
A Worcester exhibit links politics and visual culture.
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Pursuing their individual brands, colleges neglect the needs of higher education.
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Adrian Piper 2014, National Academy of Fine Arts, Oslo.
Spanning more than 50 years, the conceptual artist’s work explores race, class, gender, and identity.
Patricia and Edmund Michael Frederick have been collecting and restoring historical pianos since the 1970s.
Photograph by Jim Harrison
An instrument restorer’s beautiful obsession
Wendell Steavenson
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A new novel from foreign correspondent Wendell Steavenson
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Harmoni Turner '25 had 21 points, 13 assists, and 10 rebounds, making her just the sixth player in Ivy League history to earn a triple-double.
Photograph courtesy of Harvard Athletics
Women’s basketball demolishes Towson in the first round of the WNIT.
Chris Ledlum makes a breakaway dunk after stealing the ball during a game last November against Loyola Chicago.
Photograph by Gil Talbot/Harvard Athletics
Chris Ledlum ’23 makes his mark on the hardcourt.
Alejandro Montagna (center) wearing in his webbed wingsuit, preparing to fly
Photograph courtesy of Alejandro MontagnaWingsuit skydiver Alejandro Montagna on minimizing risk—at 150 mph
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July-August 2005
Letters
AT ODDS I was dismayed to see the Faculty of Arts and Sciences mounting their protests against President Lawrence H. Summers’s suggestion...
The College Pump
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Treasure
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John Harvard's Journal
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The College Pump
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Treasure
John James Audubon described the stentorian voice of the ivory-billed woodpecker in his Ornithological Biography, prose descriptions of the...