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Courtesy of the Education Redesign LabA conversation on the crisis and its outcomes with the Graduate School of Education’s Paul Reville
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Photograph by Mancala/WikipediaStudents urge closer attention to care on campus this fall.
Attack U.S. Department of Homeland Security and Immigration and Customs Enforcement directive
Facing legal challenges, the University does away with its controversial regulations on final clubs, fraternities, and sororities.
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Philip Caruso, J.D-M.B.A '19, helped coordinate the military's response to COVID-19 in New York.
Photo courtesy of Philip CarusoHarvard affiliates aid the Defense Department's response to COVID-19 in New York.
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The rise and fall of Charleston’s John C. Calhoun statue, a monument to white supremacy
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The league becomes first in Division I to scrap fall competition.
Beds were set up for Spanish flu patients outside the Harvard-affiliated Peter Bent Brigham Hospital in 1918.
Photograph courtesy of the Brigham and Women's Hospital ArchivesFall semester interrupted, a century ago
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March-April 2009
Letters
Letters from our readers
The College Pump
A vandalized pump, a fumbled swearing-in, and lessons about life from Professor John H. Finley
Treasure
In this Issue
With a new interdisciplinary center, Harvard turns its focus to the earliest years of life.
The United States must refresh the marriage of excellence and opportunity that characterizes American higher education at its best, argue sociologists Theda Skocpol and Suzanne Mettler.
Playwright Christopher Durang, a “native American absurdist,” writes black comedies that turn painful events into hilarity.
Letters
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Right Now
Harvard Business School’s Peter Tufano says simplifying savings-bond purchases for small savers will benefit citizens and government alike.
History professor Daniel Lord Smail explores the role of psychotropic mechanisms in human evolution and history.
The Internet, by allowing like-minded individuals to self-segregate, has had a polarizing effect on democracy, suggests Harvard Law School’s Cass Sunstein..
In Laughing Fit to Kill: Black Humor in the Fictions of Slavery, Glenda Carpio describes how slavery has provided a background and a source of raw material for African-American humor.
New England Regional
Some comments on cohabitation
John Harvard's Journal
Harvard assesses the feasibility of completing capital projects now under way, and the timing of other parts of its institutional master plan.
Harvard and its schools are preparing for broad and potentially deep cost reductions.
An update on the University’s financial contribution
A University-wide task force recommends new degree programs, courses, and spaces for art production.
Africa Map, a project of Harvard’s Center for Geographic Analysis, brings GIS capabilities to research on the entire continent.
Happenings at Harvard in March and April of years past
Harvard marks the sixtieth anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
A new interdisciplinary decision-science lab will host experiments from psychology, economics, and beyond.
Of archives, libraries, personal memories, and Sylvia Plath
Ice-hockey update
Montage
Harvard science labs and master chef Ferran Adrià confect a mutually beneficial partnership.
John Matteson, who left the law to pursue literature, won a Pulitzer Prize for <em>Eden’s Outcasts,</em> his double biography of Bronson and Louisa May Alcott.
In this excerpt from his new book, <em>The Art and Politics of Science,</em> Nobel laureate Harold Varmus reflects on his switch from graduate work in English to medical school.
Paul M. Barrett reviews <em>The Invisible Constitution</em>, by Loeb University Professor Laurence H. Tribe.
Recent books with Harvard connections
A new film by G. Wayne Miller looks back to a time when tuberculosis gripped America.
Correspondence on not-so-famous lost words
Alumni
Robert Burke’s nonprofit Ladder Up offers tax help and financial advice to the working poor.
This spring, alumni will choose five new Harvard Overseers and six new directors for the Harvard Alumni Association (HAA) board.
The HAA clubs committee awards were presented February 5
Comings and Goings; Return to Harvard Day; and a special notice regarding Harvard's Commencement Exercises
News from Shared Interest Groups
The College Pump
A vandalized pump, a fumbled swearing-in, and lessons about life from Professor John H. Finley