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Surging coronavirus cases force move to all-remote instruction.
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The 2014 epidemic was rooted in centuries of exploitation and war, Paul Farmer argues.
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The 2014 epidemic was rooted in centuries of exploitation and war, Paul Farmer argues.
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How to reform capitalism to confront climate change and extreme inequality, with economist and McArthur University Professor Rebecca Henderson
In a year like no other, read a selection of Harvard Magazine stories on the forces that will shape the presidential election outcome.
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Professor of government Dustin Tingley (bottom right), faculty director of the Harvard Initiative for Learning and Teaching and deputy vice provost for advances in learning, introduces HILT conference panelists (clockwise from top left): Sherri Ann Charleston, Anthony Jack, María Luisa Parra, and Clint Smith.
Screen capture by Harvard Magazine/LGThe Harvard Initiative for Learning and Teaching conference considers classroom inclusion and equity.
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The Undergraduate considers friendships on and away from campus.
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From left: Yvette Efevbera, Natalie Unterstell, and Megan Red Shirt-Shaw
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Three aspirants for election to the Board of Overseers, under its new rules limiting petition candidates
Cover of Fevers, Feuds and Diamonds by Paul Farmer and Photograph of Paul Farmer
Photograph of Paul Farmer by Stephanie Mitchell/Harvard Public Affairs and Communication
The 2014 epidemic was rooted in centuries of exploitation and war, Paul Farmer argues.
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Colorful bow ties from The Andover Shop
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Harvard Square venues offer warmth, cheer, and appetizing fare.
At first glance, Hammond’s Gloucester home could be mistaken for a transplanted European castle.
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Gothic surroundings, spiritualism, and science: Hammond Castle Museum’s eclectic appeal
Craigie on Main was remade into Craigie Next Door
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Independent restaurants struggle in the pandemic.
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Lawrence S. Bacow
President Bacow on the engaged upside to online teaching and learning
Educational, financial, political, and values issues challenge Harvard’s leaders—and the University community.
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The Undergraduate considers friendships on and away from campus.
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A selection from the Forbes Pigment Collection
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Harvard’s world-famous collection of colors can now be enjoyed from home.
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Confronting “some of the most challenging images in the history of photography”
At first glance, Hammond’s Gloucester home could be mistaken for a transplanted European castle.
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Gothic surroundings, spiritualism, and science: Hammond Castle Museum’s eclectic appeal
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Crimson receiver and returner Andrew Fischer breaks loose for a 58-yard run in the second quarter—one of several huge plays on the day.
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A sensational performance leads Harvard over Yale.
Carroll Lowenstein
Photograph courtesy of Peter MeeA performance for the ages—in just nine throws
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Master Yon Lee leads a beginner tai chi course on the MAC Quad.
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The healing of Master Yon Lee
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September-October 2005
Letters
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The College Pump
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Treasure
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Car bomb and coffin: aftermath of an insurgent attack on a Baghdad police station, June 20
Photograph by Khalid Mohammed/Associated Press
I have chosen to discuss Iraq in part because there are over 150,000 Americans serving there in the military, as well as U.S. civilians:...
Opposite: Frances Glessner Lee working on one of her 19 Nutshells. They were built at one inch to a foot (a standard dollhouse scale) with fastidious craftsmanship, achieved with dental tools and a carpenter’s help.
Courtesy of the Glessner House Museum, Chicago
To a forensic investigator, trivial details can reveal transgressive acts. Consider the card Frances Glessner Lee carried in her later years...
Illustration by Naomi Shea
Robert Creeley ’47 died on March 30, shortly after being named the poet for the Literary Exercises conducted annually by Harvard’s...
Historian Jill Lepore explores the lives of slaves during an alleged eighteenth century uprising
Illustration by Gianpaolo Pagniby
Is aging necessary? Are the wrinkles and gray hair, weakening muscles, neurodegeneration, reduced cardiovascular function, and increased risk of...
Letters
Understanding Sleep Your readers should know something of what was left out of “Deep into Sleep,” by Craig Lambert (May-June, page...
Right Now
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For many summers, people have slathered and sprayed on sunscreens and fretted about SPF factors while scrambling to protect themselves from...
Composer Robert Schumann was sustained by music and his wife, Clara, a fellow musician.
Courtesy of Bettmann/Corbis
In a biography of composer Robert Schumann (1810-1856), Richard Kogan ’77, M.D. ’81, found startling episodes like this: “In a...
Illustration by Tom Mosser
Each year, about 19 million adult Americans report the onset of depression, according to the National Institute of Mental Health. That’s...
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When Tom Brady joined the New England Patriots as a sixth-round draft pick in 2000, he told the team’s owner, Bob Kraft, “I’m...
Last December’s devastating tsunami leveled building walls that faced the sea in Sri Lanka—but walls perpendicular to the shoreline...
New England Regional
For years, Robert I. Owens ’68 and his wife, Elizabeth, lived with their children in the grand 1837 Greek Revival row house with hardly...
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In general, Italian food has been so thoroughly assimilated into the American diet that it no longer counts as “ethnic” fare. Pizza...
John Harvard's Journal
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Evelynn M. Hammonds has become Harvard’s first senior vice provost for faculty development and diversity. She will direct implementation...
Conrad K. Harper resigned from Harvard’s senior governing board on July 14. In an interview following the official announcement two weeks...
The revelation last autumn that the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) had made offers of tenured professorships to only four women during...
With a near-term goal of establishing an expanded campus footprint across the Charles River during the next decade, Harvard released on June 2 a...
“The sense of smell was very poorly understood,” says professor of molecular and cellular biology Catherine Dulac, until a seminal...
Kim B. Clark’s move from Allston to Idaho—he became president of Brigham Young University-Idaho on August 1, in response to a call...
Jay O. Light Harvard Business School Jay O. Light, Dwight P. Robinson Jr. professor of business administration, became acting dean of...
More than 300 units of new housing (500 beds), primarily for graduate students but some for faculty and staff, are being built on two sites in...
1920 The Graduate School of Education registers its first female students, making them the first women ever admitted to candidacy for a Harvard...
Homi Bhabha tells a story about corn flakes to illustrate the relevance of the humanities to international commerce. “For many years in...
The provost’s office (www.provost.harvard.edu) continues to add staff to cover more areas of University-wide planning and coordination...
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The charismatic, maverick field anthropologist Patrick Tracy Lowell Putnam ’25 moved to what was then the Belgian Congo in the 1930s to...
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Silent Justice John G. Roberts Jr. Harvard Year Book Publications U.S. Senators seeking a paper trail of the career and views of...
In its report issued in May, the University's Task Force on Women in Science and Engineering dramatically highlighted the "leaky...
Grinning, the new head coach of women’s soccer, 29-year-old Stephanie Erickson, says she has friends “who would call me a typical...
“It’s such a crazy position,” says Katie Shields ’06, who has tended goal for the Harvard women’s soccer team...
On a rainy summer’s night in New York City, a month after graduation, a group of my college friends meet for dinner...
Alumni
Nicholas Lemann ’76 seems an unlikely candidate for the role of higher-education reformer. Best known as a columnist and Washington...
The new president of the Harvard Alumni Association (HAA) Yuki Moore Laurenti ’79, plans to expand on the organization’s...
Once we were The Corporate Empires. Today, Bob does fiber-optics research in Arizona. Chester works at the U.S. Patent Office, refereeing...
Six alumni are to receive this year’s Hiram S. Hunn Memorial Schools and Scholarships Awards, presented by the Harvard College Office of...
Alumni colleges scheduled for this fall center on South Asia, career tactics, and the historic role of women during wartime. The events...
The University has printed 11,000 new alumni directories, most of which were scheduled to be shipped in mid August. The hardback volume lists...
As of August 1, users of Post.Harvard—the University’s on-line alumni community—may note some changes that make the system...
Navin Kumar ’06, of Kirkland House, and Joshua Reyes ’05, of Leverett House, are this year’s David Aloian Memorial Scholars...
The College Pump
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Treasure
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