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Elijah DeVaughn ’21 marched in Los Angeles last weekend.
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As demonstrations grow in the wake of George Floyd’s death, students mobilize against racism and police brutality
and the endowment distribution is decreased, as the College completes its plans.
The author (right) sitting with blockmates Mike Shirek (left) and Ernie Omondi (center) as they watched virtual Commencement
Photograph courtesy of Caroline Englemayer
A return to campus, to take in virtual graduation with friends
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Selections from Harvard Magazine's extensive coverage of racism, inequality, and incarceration
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Tests in macaques show robust protection against the SARS-CoV-2 virus induced by either vaccines or natural infection.
Essential workers at highest risk of SARS-CoV-2 infection include cab drivers and police officers.
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Nearly half of early COVID-19 transmission was work-related—a cautionary note as the economy reopens.
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Elijah DeVaughn ’21 marched in Los Angeles last weekend.
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As demonstrations grow in the wake of George Floyd’s death, students mobilize against racism and police brutality
The author (right) sitting with blockmates Mike Shirek (left) and Ernie Omondi (center) as they watched virtual Commencement
Photograph courtesy of Caroline Englemayer
A return to campus, to take in virtual graduation with friends
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Ceridwen Dovey
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How Harvard reunions are cast in Ceridwen Dovey’s Life After Truth
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(1 of 5) Untitled, Toni Morrison, 2006 by Robert McCurdy
© Robert McCurdy/National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution; Gift of Ian M. and Annette P. Cumming
Alumnus-commissioned paintings of global luminaries are now a landmark gift to the National Portrait Gallery.
Our favorite stories on the legal minds reshaping American law
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(1 of 3) Lawman Captain Harry Love and two of his California Rangers (the state’s first law-enforcement agency), circa 1853Photograph courtesy of the Peabody Essex Museum
“Gold Rush: Daguerreotypes of Early California,” at the Peabody Essex Museum
Bright-red clackers helped public-health degree candidates promote hand-washing on Commencement morning in 2019.
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Harvard’s 369th Commencement goes virtual.
“Rohan Duck” at Talulla
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Where to (eventually, again) feast with friends and family in Greater Boston
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The author is first row, second from left; Professor Mel Chen is second row, second from right.
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“The ‘ideal’ classroom never existed anyway, at least not in a perfectly equitable manner,” writes Julie Chung ’20.
A YouTube screenshot from the author’s virtual lab course
“The biggest obstacle to our collective learning is the elephant in the room: a global pandemic, taking place amid existing inequalities,” writes Drew Pendergrass ’20.
Lawrence S. Bacow
President Bacow on encountering—and coming to terms with—COVID-19
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Jenny Odell
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Artist Jenny Odell speaks at the Graduate School of Design Class Day ceremony.
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(1 of 5) Untitled, Toni Morrison, 2006 by Robert McCurdy
© Robert McCurdy/National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution; Gift of Ian M. and Annette P. Cumming
Alumnus-commissioned paintings of global luminaries are now a landmark gift to the National Portrait Gallery.
Discover a new series to watch in quarantine, or read about the creator behind your favorite show, in this selection of our TV stories
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Erin McDermott
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McDermott will join Harvard from the University of Chicago July 1.
With 2020 winter sports ending early and the spring collegiate season wiped out almost entirely, we look back at some Crimson highlights from past years.
Senior forward Chris Lewis led the Crimson in rebounding, en route to an All-Ivy League Second Team selection.
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Injuries—and the coronavirus—lead to disappointing basketball seasons.
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Ceridwen Dovey
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How Harvard reunions are cast in Ceridwen Dovey’s Life After Truth
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Widener Library’s overlooked designer
Bunting Fellows in conversation, circa 1964-1972; Tillie Olsen, holding a cup, is at right.
Photograph by Olive Pierce (circa 1964-1972). Copyright © the Pierce family. Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe Institute, Harvard University
From “women’s confinement” to “women’s liberation” at the Radcliffe Institute
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(1 of 7) The St. Louis, Missouri, skyline on the Mississippi River, as seen from East St. Louis, IllinoisPhotograph by Visions of America/Education Images/Universal Images Group via Getty Images
Walter Johnson’s radical history of St. Louis
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Jack Szostak, in his lab at Massachusetts General Hospital, holds a model of a nucleic acid.
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Jack Szostak’s pursuit of the biggest questions on Earth
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A (snowless) late-winter aerial view of the Fogg Art Museum reconstruction shows a huge crane—put in place once new subsurface floors were built—beginning to place the steel frame for the new Prescott Street entrance. In April, the reopening was deferred; it is now scheduled for fall 2014.
InThis is Love,filmmakers John Alexander and JC Guest document Rudy Love’s scattered, euphoric, tumultuous life.
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John Alexander follows the ups and downs of funk musician Rudy Love.
The artistic mission of the renovated Chelsea Theatre is partly informed by its public-housing neighborhood.
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Artistic director Joshua McTaggart and the redesigned Chelsea Theatre
InThis is Love,filmmakers John Alexander and JC Guest document Rudy Love’s scattered, euphoric, tumultuous life.
Image courtesy of The Love Story LLC
John Alexander follows the ups and downs of funk musician Rudy Love.
The artistic mission of the renovated Chelsea Theatre is partly informed by its public-housing neighborhood.
Photograph by Maurice Savage/Alamy Stock Photo
Artistic director Joshua McTaggart and the redesigned Chelsea Theatre
