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Artist Jenny Odell speaks at the Graduate School of Design Class Day ceremony.
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Harvard medical- and dental-school graduates on the front lines of a worldwide crisis
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At Harvard Business School’s virtual class day, a call for a new Marshall Plan
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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.
Evelynn Hammonds and Paul Farmer
A conversation on health disparities, with Paul Farmer and Evelynn Hammonds
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A selection of stories covering the admission of women, the Harvard-Radcliffe merger, the rise of women in the faculty ranks, Harvard’s first woman president, and more
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How Harvard reunions are cast in Ceridwen Dovey’s Life After Truth
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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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(1 of 3) Exhibits, like this replica of a textile-mill floor, reveal long days of grueling work on dangerous mill machinery.Photograph courtesy of the Museum of Work & Culture
Woonsocket’s historic French-Canadian community
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(1 of 3) Lawman Captain Harry Love and two of his California Rangers (the state’s first law-enforcement agency), circa 1853Photograph courtesy of the Peabody Essex Museum
“Gold Rush: Daguerreotypes of Early California,” at the Peabody Essex Museum
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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“The ‘ideal’ classroom never existed anyway, at least not in a perfectly equitable manner,” writes Julie Chung ’20.
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“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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Artist Jenny Odell speaks at the Graduate School of Design Class Day ceremony.
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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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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.
Senior forward Chris Lewis led the Crimson in rebounding, en route to an All-Ivy League Second Team selection.
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Injuries—and the coronavirus—lead to disappointing basketball seasons.
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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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Walter Johnson’s radical history of St. Louis
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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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At a press conference, new Boston Red Sox starting pitcher Daisuke Matsuzaka is flanked by translator Masafumi Hoshino ’02 (left) and agent Scott Boras (right). [See PDF for photograph.] The Red Sox retained Hoshino, an environmental-sciences concentrator in college, to serve as personal Japanese-English translator for Matsuzaka, whom the Red Sox signed in a deal worth a reported $103 million.
