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Edward Blum, founder of Students for Fair Admissions (SFFA), speaks to reporters at a rally in Boston on October 14, one day ahead of the start of the trial.
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First day of trial for the case that could restrict affirmative action in college admissions
Harvard Kennedy School
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Panelists discuss what it looks like, what led us here, and what can be done to fix it.
Bruce Walker, Dyann Wirth, moderator George Q. Daley, Angela DePace, and Samir Mitragotri at a symposium on “Life Sciences Innovation and the Future of Medicine.”
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Eight symposiums highlight faculty research across Harvard’s schools and realms of discovery.
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Bruce Walker, Dyann Wirth, moderator George Q. Daley, Angela DePace, and Samir Mitragotri at a symposium on “Life Sciences Innovation and the Future of Medicine.”
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Eight symposiums highlight faculty research across Harvard’s schools and realms of discovery.
Illustration by Jim Frazier
Could place-based policies solve regional economic and social problems?
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Richard Montañez
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Flamin’ Hot Cheetos inventor Richard Montañez shares lessons from his rags-to-riches story.
“Connections” and “Transformations” are both organized around frequent critique sessions,…
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Design courses enlarge the College curriculum.
At Harvard African Students Association’s Africa Night (from left): Tom Osborn ’20 of Kenya; Joshua Benjamin ’21, of Phoenix, Arizona (whose ancestors are Angolan but were first brought to Charleston, South Carolina, in the late seventeenth century); Tawanda Mulalu ’20 of Botswana; and Mfundo Radebe ’20 of South Africa
Photograph by Christabel Narh
The Undergraduate looks at Harvard through an African filter.
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Sandler relishes having her office within MoMA.
Photograph courtesy of Alexis Sandler
Solving legal challenges at MoMA
Recollections and Reflections from the Harvard class of 1957—a benchmark reunion project
In the 1980s, future U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan ’86 and future Stemberg Family Coach Tommy Amaker faced off on the basketball court, Amaker as a Duke point guard and Duncan as a Harvard forward. This image of the two greeted attendees at a Kennedy School Forum event with Duncan.
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Arne Duncan ’86 discusses education, politics, and Harvard basketball at the Institute of Politics.
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Creative Classes in Cambridge and Boston
Autumnal mist over Spot Pond
Photograph by Mike Ryan
Just north of Boston, a wild park is filled with forests, lakes, and rocky hills.
Nighttime in the North End
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“Stories the Chamber of Commerce doesn’t want you to hear”
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At Harvard African Students Association’s Africa Night (from left): Tom Osborn ’20 of Kenya; Joshua Benjamin ’21, of Phoenix, Arizona (whose ancestors are Angolan but were first brought to Charleston, South Carolina, in the late seventeenth century); Tawanda Mulalu ’20 of Botswana; and Mfundo Radebe ’20 of South Africa
Photograph by Christabel Narh
The Undergraduate looks at Harvard through an African filter.
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(Click on arrow at right to see a gallery of images.) Maurice Lalau image for “The Juggler of Notre Dame,” by Anatole France (1924)
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A Dumbarton Oaks exhibition connects “an enchanted past” to the human condition.
Bruce Walker, Dyann Wirth, moderator George Q. Daley, Angela DePace, and Samir Mitragotri at a symposium on “Life Sciences Innovation and the Future of Medicine.”
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Eight symposiums highlight faculty research across Harvard’s schools and realms of discovery.
Lawrence S. Bacow and Adele Fleet Bacow, stage center at Sanders Theatre, congratulate, thank, and celebrate the performers at the Thursday evening inaugural concert and performances.
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Students, faculty members, and visiting artists perform music, song, drama, and even a work of visual art in real time.
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One hand, two points: Tight end Adam West fended off Holy Cross’s Cullen Honohan with his right hand and caught the ball with his left for a conversion catch that made the list of Top 10 plays on ESPN’s SportsCenter.
Photograph by Tim O’Meara/The Harvard Crimson
A loss turns into a win—just in the kick of time.
Crimson streak: Aaron Shampklin sails past Cornell defenders on a 47-yard touchdown jaunt that gave the Crimson a 7-0 lead. The sophomore sensation finished with a career-high 191 yards.
Photograph by Tim O’Meara/The Harvard Crimson
A galling defeat
On tippytoes: Harvard’s Justice Shelton-Mosley performs a sideline balancing act after one of his game-high 10 catches. The senior wideout moved into third place on the career receptions list.
Photograph by Tim O’Meara/The Harvard Crimson
A quick and aggressive opponent makes the Crimson look sluggish.
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Students at the Graduate School of Design created the lion’s share of posters used by student activists in 1969.
Poster courtesy of the Harvard University Archives
An exhibit on Harvard in 1969 opens at Pusey Library this fall.
Illustration by Taylor Callery
The “Tenth Justice” and the polarization of the Supreme Court
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The “Tenth Justice” and the polarization of the Supreme Court
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American activists unfurl a banner in front of the Supreme Court.
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An historian tracks the death penalty’s persistence in America.
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Sandler relishes having her office within MoMA.
Photograph courtesy of Alexis Sandler
Alexis Sandler, associate general counsel at MoMA: a profile
Sandler relishes having her office within MoMA.
Photograph courtesy of Alexis Sandler
Alexis Sandler, associate general counsel at MoMA: a profile
