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Ukrainian president urges help from students and institutional leaders.
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Retiring Harvard Corporation senior fellow William F. Lee on the University and its governance
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This image of Sagittarius A*, captured by the Event Horizon Telescope, is the first direct visual evidence of the presence of this supermassive black hole at the center of our galaxy.
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Scientists affiliated with the Event Horizon Telescope publish the first image of Sagittarius A*, the black hole at the center of the Milky Way Galaxy.
Steven Goldstein, emeritus professor of government at Smith College, with moderator Christopher Li, director of research at the Indo-Pacific Security Project and fellow at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs
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The East Asian implications of the Russia-Ukraine War
This plaque, placed on Wadsworth House in 2016, began Harvard’s public recognition of its legacy of slavery. The report issued today significantly deepens and broadens that understanding.
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A searching examination of the places kept “outside history,” and steps to come to terms with the University’s past
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After much debate, the Faculty of Arts and Sciences votes to adopt a system of previous-term registration for classes.
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Amid controversy, the representative student body is replaced.
The 2022 Harvard Horzions scholars
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Ph.D. students discuss subjects from aliens to infrastructural aesthetics.
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Katie Lapp
Photograph by Stephanie Mitchell/HPACAfter more than a decade, an institutional voice departs.
Erin Kelly and Salamishah Tillet honored for “searing” and “stylish” writing in biography and criticism
After much debate, the Faculty of Arts and Sciences votes to adopt a system of previous-term registration for classes.
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Deer Island’s giant steel eggs and wind turbines
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The strange, haunting magic of Boston Harbor's Deer Island
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Lesser-known plants with tricks up their sleeves (or, rather, stems)
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President Bacow on maintaining University values while adopting the best lessons learned during the pandemic
The gains and losses from changes in Commencement and “shopping week”
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Erin Kelly and Salamishah Tillet honored for “searing” and “stylish” writing in biography and criticism
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Ph.D. students discuss subjects from aliens to infrastructural aesthetics.
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Actor and producer Alex Molina on filming a feature-length thriller in a single take
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As an assistant coach at the University of Michigan, Moore helped lead the Wolverines to the NCAA Tournament's Elite Eight.
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She succeeds Kathy Delaney-Smith, who led the Crimson for 40 seasons.
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Comprehensive modernization to begin this year
Kathy Delaney-Smith
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In her final season, the Harvard women’s basketball coach stays “in the moment."
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March-April 2011
Letters
Coup in Iran, Obama's democracy, squash
The College Pump
Treasure
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Ubiquitous on film and TV, Wallace Shawn writes plays that pack the house—with 20.
Letters
Coup in Iran, Obama's democracy, squash
Right Now
Integrated reporting gives stakeholders information about the sustainability of a corporation’s business.
Calestous Juma sees agricultural innovation as a catalyst to promote development.
Polygyny has mainly negative consequences for women, children, and unmarried young men—and is linked to violence among nations.
New England Regional
For your consideration: alternatives to the traditional lawn
John Harvard's Journal
Searches are under way for new Fellows of Harvard College and for a successor to Steven E. Hyman.
Helen Shenton and a new University-wide management will reshape the libraries for the digital future.
Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences Michael D. Smith and his colleagues refocus on their educational mission.
The former smoker turned anti-smoking guru directs Harvard School of Public Health's Center for Global Tobacco Control.
Headlines from Harvard history
University Professorship for Paul Farmer, ROTC after DADT, admissions angst, a higher-education update, and other University news
The Undergraduate takes a chance on a hard and unfamiliar course.
Montage
Analyzing cognition and behaviors to explore how individuals and organizations conduct themselves relative to ethical standards
New collections of poems, prose, and correspondence by Elizabeth Bishop
Law School alumna Dawn LaRochelle left her law practice to become a caterer and restaurateur.
At its sesquicentennial, a fresh, revealing narrative of the advent of the Civil War
Recent books with Harvard connections
Correspondence on not-so-famous lost words
Alumni
A special event on April 6 for reunion-year alumni and their families
The slates of nominees for the Board of Overseers and elected directors of the Harvard Alumni Association are ready.
The Harvard Alumni Association honors outstanding service to, and innovation by, Harvard clubs and Shared Interest Groups.
An update on Harvard matriculants in the 112th Congress
A sampling of Harvard Club events around the country
Shared Interest Group early spring events
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