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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 admits a record-low 3.4 percent of applicants
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.
From the potentialenergycoalition.org website
A professor and a marketing professional try a new tack in climate-change communications.
Alumni scientist-filmmakers bring the Harvard Computers’ story to the screen.
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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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The annual election of Overseers and alumni association directors is under way.
Alumni scientist-filmmakers bring the Harvard Computers’ story to the screen.
A Harvard grandmother’s—and grandson’s—research
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Turning your al fresco space into a springtime oasis
A short list of fine
documentaries and feature films
“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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Alumni scientist-filmmakers bring the Harvard Computers’ story to the screen.
A short list of fine
documentaries and feature films
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.
Photograph by Molly Malone
A legendary route’s disputed distance
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From the archives
Illustration by Dan Page
Observations from Twitter prove that even the smallest news outlets can shape public opinion.
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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.
Letters from our readers
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.
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.
Painter George Oommen creates distinctive images of Kerala, India—his homeland. With video of the artist at work.
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