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Ukrainian president urges help from students and institutional leaders.
The annual report on leaders’ compensation
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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.
Photograph by Niko Yaitanes/Harvard Magazine
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.
Amid controversy, the representative student body is replaced.
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After 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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The strange, haunting magic of Boston Harbor's Deer Island
Ruby Red horsechestnut (Aesculus x carnea ‘Briotii’)
Photograph by William “Ned” Friedman/The Harvard Arnold Arboretum
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
The 2022 Harvard Horzions scholars
Photograph courtesy of Harvard Graduate School of Arts and Sciences
Ph.D. students discuss subjects from aliens to infrastructural aesthetics.
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.
Photograph by Michigan Athletics/courtesy of Harvard Athletic Communications
She succeeds Kathy Delaney-Smith, who led the Crimson for 40 seasons.
Comprehensive modernization to begin this year
In her final season, the Harvard women’s basketball coach stays “in the moment."
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Brief life of a dauntless educator: 1887-1951
Emerson’s oratory backstory, somber reunion notes, and happier days
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The meaning of life, diabetes, Gandhi, burlesque
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An experienced Stanford administrator, an expert on health policy and economics, returns to take a big job at his alma mater.
Faculty consulting for the Qaddafi government prompts a debate on academic principles.
Headlines from Harvard's history
The psychology professor returns to Harvard, but not to teaching.
Arrivals, appointments, awards
In two new books, E.O. Wilson and his coauthors introduce pioneer myrmecologist José Celestino Mutis, and the ants that are "the most complex socially of all animals, except for humans."
Radcliffe Institute's dean steps down, FAS's fitter fisc, renovation for Old Quincy, J-term update, and other Harvard news
A senior ponders cultural capital, socioeconomic realities, and career choices.
The newly elected members of the Board of Overseers and new directors of the Harvard Alumni Association
Four new graduates head back to school—in the other Cambridge
A record-breaking fiftieth-reunion total is one among many contributions.
Janny Scott '77 introduces Barack Obama's mother to a wider audience.
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