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Erika Bailey takes notes as Kabir Gandhi '19 delivers the 2019 Latin Salutatory.
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Preparing three student orators for their big day
William F. Lee, senior fellow of the Harvard Corporation
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Senior fellow William F. Lee on the University’s priorities during President Lawrence S. Bacow’s first year
James Breyer (left) with honorand Michael Bloomberg at Harvard’s 2014 Commencement
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Further transition for the senior governing board
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Meredith Rosenthal (center) spoke about pharmaceutical marketing's role in the opioid crisis. She is Gray professor of health economics at the Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health.
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A joint Harvard-University of Michigan summit addresses opioids stigma, drug marketing, and race.
Byerly Hall
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Scholars from diverse disciplines will spend a year devoted to research.
Illustration by David Plunkert
Ben Green warns against simple technological solutions for complex problems.
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Erika Bailey takes notes as Kabir Gandhi '19 delivers the 2019 Latin Salutatory.
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Preparing three student orators for their big day
The Faculty of Arts and Sciences enacts a full agenda of undergraduate academic and social policies.
Harvard College dean Rakesh Khurana
Photograph by Stephanie Mitchell/Harvard Public Affairs and CommunicationsHarvard College’s down payment on universal student public service
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At the Vietnam Veterans Memorial, Joe Brett—veteran and Harvard Kennedy School alumnus—addresses Ukrainian veterans of the Soviet-Afghan War. He writes, “I gave them a pin of my old unit, 24th Corps, which happens to be a blue heart on a white shield…or in this case a symbol for peace. We all wept when I gave this out with the words that it was up to us to all work for peace, now that we have met each other as brothers at this memorial…One former Soviet colonel hugged me and, with tears in his eyes, said that all soldiers should be veterans.”
Photograph courtesy of Joe Brett
A Kennedy School reunioner and Vietnam veteran stresses the need to address moral injury.
A flier for Heat Week
Students, faculty, and alumni urge the ditching of corporations linked to climate change.
The author’s father, Noah Gibson, playing fiddle with friends at an Irish music session
Photoraph courtesy of Lydialyle Gibson
A personal story about caregiving and empathy
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Garden in the Woods features the white spring ephemerals, such asTrillium grandiflorum, during Trillium Week (May 5-11).
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Springtime at New England’s native-plant haven
Tatte Bakery’s pastry counter
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At the Vietnam Veterans Memorial, Joe Brett—veteran and Harvard Kennedy School alumnus—addresses Ukrainian veterans of the Soviet-Afghan War. He writes, “I gave them a pin of my old unit, 24th Corps, which happens to be a blue heart on a white shield…or in this case a symbol for peace. We all wept when I gave this out with the words that it was up to us to all work for peace, now that we have met each other as brothers at this memorial…One former Soviet colonel hugged me and, with tears in his eyes, said that all soldiers should be veterans.”
Photograph courtesy of Joe Brett
A Kennedy School reunioner and Vietnam veteran stresses the need to address moral injury.
Lawrence S. Bacow
President Bacow on friendships formed among and between scholars and students
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Sarah Lewis
Photograph by Melissa BlackallAt a seminal conference, black creative intellectuals explore white supremacy, the arts, and justice.
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Her book Amity and Prosperity: One Family and the Fracturing of America is the choice in general nonfiction.
Jocelyn and Chris Arndt, siblings from Fort Plain, New York, balanced a full-time tour schedule and undergraduate life.
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For two Harvard siblings, studying and songwriting went hand in hand.
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Red Rocks Conservation Area, in Gloucester, Massachusetts
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Rock climbing in Greater Boston—and beyond
Noah Kirkwood ’22, the Ivy League Rookie of the Year, emerged as one of Harvard’s top offensive threats.
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Basketball teams fall short of NCAAs again.
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Click arrow on right for full image: German President Richard von Weizsäcker, the featured Commencement speaker in 1987—the fortieth anniversary of the historic Marshall Plan address
It helps to be a high official of a powerful European nation—and to have resonant things to say about your American allies.
Illustration by Mark Steele
Demonstrating for equality…and other headlines from Harvard’s history
After graduating from the College in 1861, Holmes obtained a commission as first lieutenant in the Twentieth Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry, known as the “Harvard Regiment.”
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A new biography of Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. illuminates the Supreme Court during the centennial of his most momentous dissent.
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Bibliophile behind the footlights: Harry Widener (front row, far left) acted in high school in an English version of a French farce.
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Brief life of a theater-loving bibliophile: 1885-1912
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American activists unfurl a banner in front of the Supreme Court.
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Letters
The meaning of life, diabetes, Gandhi, burlesque
The College Pump
Treasure
In this Issue
Reducing our dependence on imported oil—while addressing the threat of climate change
Letters
The meaning of life, diabetes, Gandhi, burlesque
Right Now
Stephen Greenblatt traces the influence of Lucretius, through De Rerum Natura, on modern thought.
Harvard scientists have discovered how to extinguish flames by pushing them off their fuel source with an electric field.
New England Regional
John Harvard's Journal
An omnium-gatherum of notes and statistics, vital and otherwise
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.
Montage
Historian Sophia Rosenfeld examines the origins of politicians' appeals to "common sense."
Recent books with Harvard connections
Correspondence on not-so-famous lost words
Alumni
Marjorie Thomas '42 and Donald F. Brown '30 led the alumni parade on Commencement afternoon.
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.
Summer events hosted by Shared Interest Groups
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