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Michael Mina
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Michael Mina maintains a new testing regimen could end the COVID-19 pandemic—in three weeks.
Harvard Yard
Photograph by Mancala/WikipediaStudents urge closer attention to care on campus this fall.
Federal visa restrictions will prevent freshman international students from living in the United States.
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Paul Reville
Courtesy of the Education Redesign LabA conversation on the crisis and its outcomes with the Graduate School of Education’s Paul Reville
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The U.S. Army's 24th Infantry Regiment, an African-American regiment, arriving at Camp Wikoff in Montauk, New York, 1898
Roosevelt Class No. 560.3, Theodore Roosevelt Collection, Harvard College Library, Harvard UniversityA Houghton Library project to digitize thousands of African-American records and artifacts
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Harvard Yard
Photograph by Mancala/WikipediaStudents urge closer attention to care on campus this fall.
Attack U.S. Department of Homeland Security and Immigration and Customs Enforcement directive
Facing legal challenges, the University does away with its controversial regulations on final clubs, fraternities, and sororities.
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Philip Caruso, J.D-M.B.A '19, helped coordinate the military's response to COVID-19 in New York.
Photo courtesy of Philip CarusoHarvard affiliates aid the Defense Department's response to COVID-19 in New York.
Harvard Magazine’s coverage of the University’s expanding global reach
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Salisbury Beach State Reservation
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Strict lines in the sand
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(1 of 4) Ipswich River Sanctuary (Mass Audubon)Photograph courtesy of Mass Audubon/Kelly Moffett
Getting away and outside safely this summer
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How to plan your staycation summer
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A statue of John C. Calhoun is removed on June 24 in Charleston, South Carolina.
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The rise and fall of Charleston’s John C. Calhoun statue, a monument to white supremacy
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The U.S. Army's 24th Infantry Regiment, an African-American regiment, arriving at Camp Wikoff in Montauk, New York, 1898
Roosevelt Class No. 560.3, Theodore Roosevelt Collection, Harvard College Library, Harvard UniversityA Houghton Library project to digitize thousands of African-American records and artifacts
Beds were set up for Spanish flu patients outside the Harvard-affiliated Peter Bent Brigham Hospital in 1918.
Photograph courtesy of the Brigham and Women's Hospital ArchivesFall semester interrupted, a century ago
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The league becomes first in Division I to scrap fall competition.
Beds were set up for Spanish flu patients outside the Harvard-affiliated Peter Bent Brigham Hospital in 1918.
Photograph courtesy of the Brigham and Women's Hospital ArchivesFall semester interrupted, a century ago
Georgina Milne tucks and flips, helping Harvard defeat Brown.
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Diver Georgina Milne pictures a post-pandemic return.
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Beds were set up for Spanish flu patients outside the Harvard-affiliated Peter Bent Brigham Hospital in 1918.
Photograph courtesy of the Brigham and Women's Hospital ArchivesFall semester interrupted, a century ago
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Tom Nichols dissects the dangerous antipathy to expertise.
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July-August 2011
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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