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A screen shot from the closing moments of the 2020 virtual degree-granting ceremony (a technologically enabled singing of “Fair Harvard”)—an exercise now being replicated in some form for a second consecutive pandemic spring
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The 370th degree-conferral will be online for the second consecutive year—with Ruth Simmons as guest speaker.
Kate Murtagh, chief compliance officer and managing director of sustainable investing at Harvard Management Company
Photograph by Stephanie Mitchell, Harvard University.
Harvard Management Company issues its first report on the “net-zero” greenhouse-gas emissions goal.
As expected, the anti-affirmative-action advocate appeals after losing in lower court rounds.
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A Harvard grandmother’s—and grandson’s—research
Harvard development partner Tishman Speyer’s proposed massing and configuration of buildings for the first phase of construction on the Enterprise Research Campus in Allston.
From Tishman Speyer's Project Notification Form filing.
Tishman Speyer details the first phase of the “enterprise research campus”—and points to a doubling of the project’s ultimate size.
Compact and persistent, DNA could one day compress all human knowledge into a 15-gallon drum.
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A Harvard grandmother’s—and grandson’s—research
The Undergraduate balances childhood and maturity.
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A Harvard grandmother’s—and grandson’s—research
The Xfund helps young entrepreneurs launch companies and careers.
Jeannie Suk Gersen on the law, trauma, and “the rhetoric of believing”
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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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A short list of fine
documentaries and feature films
In a new book, Louis Menand probes the cultural currents of postwar America.
At Houghton and Lamont libraries, a creative new entry into the Yard
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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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Classy masks, dapper archaeologist, saving H.H. Richardson’s house
At Houghton and Lamont libraries, a creative new entry into the Yard
From the archives
<p class="caption">A serpentine proximal tubule (light pink) snakes through the center of a multi-layer network of blood vessels (hot pink), all created using a 3-D printer.</p>
<p class="credit">Image from Scientific Reports</p>
3-D-printing pioneer Jennifer Lewis aims to fabricate replacement organs.
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College crises, energy options, reefs at risk, home cooking, and more
Reunion reflections from David Souter, and a tribute to Carroll Wood
College crises, energy options, reefs at risk, home cooking, and more
By reading Darwin, a business school professor has found a unifying way to think about human motivation.
Veils have seen a resurgence among young Muslim women worldwide. Is this a step backward, or a marker of progressive politics?
As a redesigned museum rises, curators choose works for display and plan to increase faculty involvement in the process.
What’s in a (Latin) name?
Reunion reflections from David Souter, and a tribute to Carroll Wood