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Emma Dench, dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences
Photograph coutresy of Harvard University
Harvard continues to change with the coronavirus.
Indoor gatherings increase the risk of SARS-CoV-2 transmission.
Art by Niko Yaitanes/Harvard Magazine; images by iStock.
Seasonality and SARS-CoV-2
The Engine’s logo
Courtesy MIT
Neighboring institutions collaborate in a venture-capital firm seeing to tackle tough technological challenges.
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In a year like no other, read a selection of Harvard Magazine stories on the forces that will shape the presidential election outcome.
Indoor gatherings increase the risk of SARS-CoV-2 transmission.
Art by Niko Yaitanes/Harvard Magazine; images by iStock.
Seasonality and SARS-CoV-2
Caroline Buckee
Anonymized location data can help guide strategies for protecting public health in a pandemic.
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Professor of government Dustin Tingley (bottom right), faculty director of the Harvard Initiative for Learning and Teaching and deputy vice provost for advances in learning, introduces HILT conference panelists (clockwise from top left): Sherri Ann Charleston, Anthony Jack, María Luisa Parra, and Clint Smith.
Screen capture by Harvard Magazine/LG
The Harvard Initiative for Learning and Teaching conference considers classroom inclusion and equity.
Illustration by Amelia Flower/Folio Art
The Undergraduate considers friendships on and away from campus.
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Harvard professional schools continue (mostly) online learning during the next semester—and other indicators for 2021.
Michael Fabiano, A.L.M. ’16, in the AP newsroom.
Photo courtesy of the AP
The AP’s Michael Fabiano on the 2020 election
Dan Chiasson at home in front of a “sometimes delightful, sometimes disturbing” mural by David Teng Olsen, which appears in The Math Campers.
Photograph by Jim Harrison
Poet-critic Dan Chiasson and The Math Campers
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Colorful bow ties from The Andover Shop
Photograph courtesy of The Andover Shop
Harvard Square venues offer warmth, cheer, and appetizing fare.
At first glance, Hammond’s Gloucester home could be mistaken for a transplanted European castle.
Photograph by Lovely Valentine Photography/Courtesy of Hammond Castle
Gothic surroundings, spiritualism, and science: Hammond Castle Museum’s eclectic appeal
Craigie on Main was remade into Craigie Next Door
Photograph by Rachel Manzier/Metter Media/Courtesy of Craigie on Main
Independent restaurants struggle in the pandemic.
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Lawrence S. Bacow
President Bacow on the engaged upside to online teaching and learning
Educational, financial, political, and values issues challenge Harvard’s leaders—and the University community.
Illustration by Amelia Flower/Folio Art
The Undergraduate considers friendships on and away from campus.
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Photograph by Fabrizio Amoroso/Aperture
Confronting “some of the most challenging images in the history of photography”
At first glance, Hammond’s Gloucester home could be mistaken for a transplanted European castle.
Photograph by Lovely Valentine Photography/Courtesy of Hammond Castle
Gothic surroundings, spiritualism, and science: Hammond Castle Museum’s eclectic appeal
Photograph courtesy of the Harvard Art Museums/Promised gift of Robert S. and Betsy G. Feinberg
This folding fan enfolds two sacred mountains.
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In 2012, Colton Chapple ’13 threw five touchdowns in Harvard's 39-34 loss to Princeton. Photograph courtesy of Harvard Athletic Communications
An all-time performance in an all-time loss
Charles Brickley
Photo collage by Harvard Magazine/JC. Photograph in the public domain.
A Harvard great with an all-time boot
Eighteen seasons after his final reception for the Crimson, Morris still has a firm hold on almost every significant Harvard pass-catching record. Photograph by Simon Bruty/Sports Illustrated via Getty Images
2000-02: a Crimson Wide Receiver's Fab Four
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Master Yon Lee leads a beginner tai chi course on the MAC Quad.
Photograph by Kris Snibbe/HPAC
The healing of Master Yon Lee
Photograph courtesy of W. Todd Groce
A Civil War image and an Empire State Building homage
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Sellers at the John Brown Fort, at Harpers Ferry National Historical Park
Photograph by T.J. Kirkpatric
William Sellers aims to expose a new generation to America’s origins.
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Alumni
The Harvard Alumni Association invites all reunion-year alumni and their families to return to the College to experience an undergraduate’s academic day on April 5, 2012. Attend classes and lectures, have lunch in the House dining halls, tour the campus, attend a student-led panel discussion on undergraduate life, then join students for a reception. For details, contact the HAA at 617-496-7001.
Lorenzo Tañada as a senator (in an undated portrait)
Portrait courtesy of the National Library of the Philippines /Wikipedia/Public Domain
Lorenzo Tañada as a senator (in an undated portrait)
Portrait courtesy of the National Library of the Philippines /Wikipedia/Public Domain
