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Harvard Stadium
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An agenda for a new athletic director—and for a wider emphasis on student fitness
Elijah DeVaughn ’21 marched in Los Angeles last weekend.
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As demonstrations grow in the wake of George Floyd’s death, students mobilize against racism and police brutality
and the endowment distribution is decreased, as the College completes its plans.
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Selections from Harvard Magazine's extensive coverage of racism, inequality, and incarceration
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Tests in macaques show robust protection against the SARS-CoV-2 virus induced by either vaccines or natural infection.
Essential workers at highest risk of SARS-CoV-2 infection include cab drivers and police officers.
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Nearly half of early COVID-19 transmission was work-related—a cautionary note as the economy reopens.
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Elijah DeVaughn ’21 marched in Los Angeles last weekend.
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As demonstrations grow in the wake of George Floyd’s death, students mobilize against racism and police brutality
The author (right) sitting with blockmates Mike Shirek (left) and Ernie Omondi (center) as they watched virtual Commencement
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A return to campus, to take in virtual graduation with friends
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Ceridwen Dovey
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How Harvard reunions are cast in Ceridwen Dovey’s Life After Truth
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(1 of 5) Untitled, Toni Morrison, 2006 by Robert McCurdy
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Alumnus-commissioned paintings of global luminaries are now a landmark gift to the National Portrait Gallery.
Our favorite stories on the legal minds reshaping American law
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Bright-red clackers helped public-health degree candidates promote hand-washing on Commencement morning in 2019.
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Harvard’s 369th Commencement goes virtual.
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(1of 7) Old Slater Mill sitePhotograph courtesy of Blackstone River Valley National Historical Park
Tracing America’s industrial roots in the Blackstone River Valley
“Rohan Duck” at Talulla
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Where to (eventually, again) feast with friends and family in Greater Boston
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The author is first row, second from left; Professor Mel Chen is second row, second from right.
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“The ‘ideal’ classroom never existed anyway, at least not in a perfectly equitable manner,” writes Julie Chung ’20.
A YouTube screenshot from the author’s virtual lab course
“The biggest obstacle to our collective learning is the elephant in the room: a global pandemic, taking place amid existing inequalities,” writes Drew Pendergrass ’20.
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Jenny Odell
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Artist Jenny Odell speaks at the Graduate School of Design Class Day ceremony.
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(1 of 5) Untitled, Toni Morrison, 2006 by Robert McCurdy
© Robert McCurdy/National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution; Gift of Ian M. and Annette P. Cumming
Alumnus-commissioned paintings of global luminaries are now a landmark gift to the National Portrait Gallery.
Discover a new series to watch in quarantine, or read about the creator behind your favorite show, in this selection of our TV stories
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Harvard Stadium
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An agenda for a new athletic director—and for a wider emphasis on student fitness
Erin McDermott
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McDermott will join Harvard from the University of Chicago July 1.
With 2020 winter sports ending early and the spring collegiate season wiped out almost entirely, we look back at some Crimson highlights from past years.
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Ceridwen Dovey
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How Harvard reunions are cast in Ceridwen Dovey’s Life After Truth
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Widener Library’s overlooked designer
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Barrett at a favorite birding site overlooking Turtle Pond, in Central Park, with Manhattan’s Upper East Side beyond
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A quest to chronicle New York City’s avian community
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Jack Szostak, in his lab at Massachusetts General Hospital, holds a model of a nucleic acid.
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Jack Szostak’s pursuit of the biggest questions on Earth
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A contributing editor of this magazine, John de Cuevas ’52, is an inveterate perpetrator of puzzles with cryptic clues, and 35 of his creations appeared in these pages between 1986 and 1998. They are now newly gathered on his website, www.puzzlecrypt.com.
