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Ten percent of MBA students to receive full tuition scholarships
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Targeting the wrong buyers—and producing more greenhouse-gas emissions
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The high costs of environmental, historic-preservation, and other good intentions
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Understanding “low response to training”—and searching for solutions for diabetics and others
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Ten percent of MBA students to receive full tuition scholarships
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The Supreme Court will hear arguments this fall.
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Kallaugher’s “Dark Web” (2021), published in The Economist
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Kevin Kallaugher on the art of editorial cartooning
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A lifelong struggle with body image led Juna Gjata to podcasting.
Gardner Cox’s unconventional 1960 Frankfurter portrait
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Justice Felix Frankfurter, to great controversy, said yes.
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Opportunities for discovery this fall
Birches Over Pine (1966)
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Exhibit at Vermont's Shelburne Museum offers beauty and vitality
The music center, sited on a bucolic hill in Groton
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A new regional music center opens in Groton, Massachusetts.
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The commercial "enterprise research campus" will begin rising on the gray parcel at the center, above—but Harvard's broader strategy is not widley known.
Image from Google EarthThe Corporation’s role in communicating University strategies—and the magazine’s 125th
President Lawrence S. Bacow
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Birches Over Pine (1966)
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Exhibit at Vermont's Shelburne Museum offers beauty and vitality
esperanza spalding performs at the 2018 New York Live Arts Gala, sporting her signature “Life Force” outfit.
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The musician and "songwright" invites the listener in
Kallaugher’s “Dark Web” (2021), published in The Economist
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Kevin Kallaugher on the art of editorial cartooning
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Shahbo lunges for a save during NCAA tournament warmup.
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Field hockey goalie Ellie Shahbo’s quiet dominance
Christine Mansour at the 2022 World Games in Birmingham, Alabama
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How Christine Mansour became a beach handball star
Charles Altchek
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Charles Altchek ’07 moves from the field to the front office.
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Parry in Paris circa 1925-1928
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Brief life of a Homeric scholar with a big idea: 1902-1935
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Letters
Letters on compromise, constitutional revision, voting fraud, American democracy, and students and cigarettes
Additional September-October issue letters to the editor
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Letters
Letters on compromise, constitutional revision, voting fraud, American democracy, and students and cigarettes
Additional September-October issue letters to the editor
Right Now
Shawn Douglas of the Wyss Institute is developing drug-delivering machines that target designated cells.
New England Regional
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Summer construction—on the Fogg Art Museum, the Business School’s Tata Hall, Old Quincy, and more—renews the campus.
Harvard will build housing and resume construction of a science building, submitting a new Institutional Master Plan by October.
An exhibition from Harvard Business School's historical library collections documents the first wave of U.S. trade with imperial China.
David Jones, Ackerman professor of the culture of medicine, works in both history and medicine.
Harvard's largest solar installation, edX develops, Drew Faust’s research becomes a TV program, the <i>Gilgamesh</i> sculpture, and more
Dunster House will get the first makeover as part of a project to renovate Harvard's Houses. Students will take up temporary residence at the Inn at Harvard.
Headlines from Harvard history
The Undergraduate proctors high-schoolers and looks back on her own high-school days—and her discovery of American liberal-arts education.
Cherone Duggan ’14 and Kathryn Reed ’13 are the magazine’s new Berta Greenwald Ledecky Undergraduate Fellows.
For many decades, placekickers weren’t specialists
He coached for the past 17 seasons and won five Ivy League championships.
Montage
Laurie Krasny Brown crafts colorful works from an “accessible, flexible, beautiful” material.
Interoperability, rebuilding New Orleans, the Brothers Grimm, and other books with Harvard connections
For his new CD, <i> Wisteria,</i> jazz pianist Steve Kuhn proves good things come in trios.
Andrea Louise Campbell reviews <i>The Unheavenly Chorus,</i> by Kay Lehman Schlozman, Sidney Verba, and Henry E. Brady.
A correspondence corner for not-so-famous lost words
Alumni
A Shared Interest Group aims to support undergraduates whose parents didn't attend a four-year college.
A financial-aid initiative and other College programs help first- generation undergraduates feel at home.
David Bisno ’61 has spearheaded the creation of a mini-museum of horology in the Santa Barbara Courthouse.
Sue Minter ’83 is helping her state recover from the devastation of Hurricane Irene.
Shared Interest Group events in September and October
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