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Michael Mina holds up a rapid test during a Zoom call with journalists
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Rapid COVID-19 tests, of the kind that Michael Mina has been advocating since last year, are finally approved for home use.
Harvard's acceptance rate drops as applications rise.
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Harvard admits a record-low 3.4 percent of applicants
William "Bill" Kristol.
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Bill Kristol discusses the future of the Republican Party and the survival of American constitutional democracy.
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A professor and a marketing professional have teamed up to raise awareness of the climate problem through the nonpartisan, nonprofit Potential Energy Coalition.
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A professor and a marketing professional try a new tack in climate-change communications.
Harvard Computers and Radcliffe students in 1925
Photograph courtesy of the Harvard Library ArchivesAlumni scientist-filmmakers bring the Harvard Computers’ story to the screen.
Harvard Law School students Anna Vande Velde and William Roberts
Photograph courtesy of Harvard Law SchoolA Law School report offers the City of Boston recommendations for reform.
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Harvard's acceptance rate drops as applications rise.
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Harvard admits a record-low 3.4 percent of applicants
Cabot House members cheered up the wintry Quad with their hand-crafted ice lanterns.
Photograph courtesy of Cabot House faculty dean Ian Miller and resident dean Meg Lockwood.
Undergraduate Houses experiment and innovate in attempts to revive the effervescence that once characterized their student communities.
March 2018, Randolph Courtyard: The author (center) and her two future roommates, Sreya at left and Pranati at right, have just run over from the Yard on Housing Day, having learned they’d been assigned to Adams House.
Photograph courtesy of Meena Venkataramanan.
The College’s annual “Housing Day” dramas, conducted online.
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Loeb House, where the governing boards convene
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The annual election of Overseers and alumni association directors is under way.
Harvard Computers and Radcliffe students in 1925
Photograph courtesy of the Harvard Library ArchivesAlumni scientist-filmmakers bring the Harvard Computers’ story to the screen.
Noah Evers ’22 and his grandmother Patricia Greenfield ’62, Ph.D. ’66
Photo by Lauren Greenfield ’87
A Harvard grandmother’s—and grandson’s—research
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Turning your al fresco space into a springtime oasis
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From the filmA short list of fine
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Shen Wei in his New York studio, 2014
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“Shen Wei: Painting in Motion,” at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum
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March 2018, Randolph Courtyard: The author (center) and her two future roommates, Sreya at left and Pranati at right, have just run over from the Yard on Housing Day, having learned they’d been assigned to Adams House.
Photograph courtesy of Meena Venkataramanan.
The College’s annual “Housing Day” dramas, conducted online.
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Harvard Computers and Radcliffe students in 1925
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A still from The Painter and the Thief
From the filmA short list of fine
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Illustration by Alex Williamson.
In a new book, Louis Menand probes the cultural currents of postwar America.
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David Melly rounds Harvard Stadium. Running the loop counterclockwise, he acknowledges, is controversial.
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A legendary route’s disputed distance
An adept passer and gritty defender, Zeng also finished fifth in the Ivy League in service aces.
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Volleyball captain Sandra Zeng’s defensive focus
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Solomon Gate in its typical open position
At Houghton and Lamont libraries, a creative new entry into the Yard
David Melly rounds Harvard Stadium. Running the loop counterclockwise, he acknowledges, is controversial.
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A legendary route’s disputed distance
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September-October 2010
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The Farlow Library's new online exhibits highlight the death cap mushroom and mycological illustration.
In this Issue
Harvard professors and students take aim at the social and behavioral factors that contribute to HIV.
Psychologist Ellen Langer's unconventional research. Plus, read about applying mindfulness techniques to eating.
Two Beijing photographers interpret China's breakneck change from Communist revolution to market-based consumerism.
Father and son, lawyer and philosopher debate torture, surveillance, and presidential power
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Neurobiologist Michael Greenberg investigates how memories form at a molecular level, and discovers a new class of RNA.
Robert Pringle says the grid-like distribution of Kenyan termite mounds helps answer an old question about ecosystems.
David Scadden studies the environmental cues that can cause normal cells to become diseased.
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John Harvard's Journal
As corporate relationships with researchers and doctors come under more scrutiny, Harvard Medical School updates its policies.
Revised promotion policies transform younger faculty members' lives—and promise sweeping changes in the professoriate as a whole.
Executive vice president Katie Lapp is swiftly altering the ways Harvard budgets, builds, computes, and more.
Headlines from Harvard history
Waiting to hear about faculty retirements; a new HUCTW contract; and a cash infusion for the Medical School from its affiliated hospitals
The Undergraduate, halfway through the College, finds time speeding up, in academics and in life.
Two sterling student writers join the magazine as Berta Greenwald Ledecky Undergraduate Fellows.
Montage
Painter George Oommen creates distinctive images of Kerala, India—his homeland. With video of the artist at work.
Pediatrician T. Berry Brazelton's breakthrough in understanding newborns as complex, capable beings
Francine Prose writes fiction and nonfiction in many forms. With an audio clip of the author discussing her writing process.
Correspondence on not-so-famous lost words
Recent books with Harvard connections
Alumni
Harvard Alumni Association president Robert R. Bowie Jr. is passionate about the “Harvard network.”
President Drew Faust will welcome attendees as the Shared Interest Group hosts its inaugural conference (October 15-17).
Nine alumni will be recognized by the College admissions office for their long and loyal service in recruiting and interviewing prospective students.
Early fall Shared Interest Group events
Entrepreneur and author Michael Fertik aims to help folks keep their reputations safe online.
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The College Pump
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The Farlow Library's new online exhibits highlight the death cap mushroom and mycological illustration.