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The University’s COVID-19 vaccine mandate takes effect December 8.
A 33.6 percent return on endowment investments, as expense controls and donor support buoy the budget in an unprecedented year
Group finds that tenure is not broken but can use improvements.
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A sample of Physarum polycephalum sends out slimy, finger-like tendrils to sense information about its petri dish environment.
Image courtesy of Nirosha Murugan, Levin lab, Tufts University, and Wyss Institute at Harvard University
A seemingly primitive creature’s complex ability to detect mass from a distance.
Illustration by John Tomac
Home prices are a bellwether of efficient spending in local schools
Illustration by Taylor Callery
Rather than shutting down turbines, China can harness surplus wind energy to make “green” hydrogen fuel and industrial chemicals.
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Illustration by Angelo Dolojan
The Undergraduate returns to student life, altered by the pandemic and a year spent apart.
Fariba Mahmud and Courtney Rabb
Photographs courtesy of the Harvard Alumni Association
Enriching life at the Houses
Harvard Yard
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A recent graduate visits Harvard during a semi-normal semester
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Carolyn Gold intended her book to be a resource for other brain-injury patients.
Photograph courtesy of Carolyn Gold; photo collage by Niko Yaitanes
Alumna Carolyn Gold on finding a “new self” after West Nile encephalitis
Goodman preps for her show in the studio.
Photograph courtesy of Democracy Now!
At Democracy Now! Amy Goodman goes “where the silence is.”
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The 1850 former arsenal that now houses the armory museum
Photograph by Stan Tess/Alamy Stock Photo
Springfield Armory National Historic Site
The stein-laden mahogany back bar, and original 1935 booths featuring animal antler sconces
Photograph courtesy of The Student Prince
A Springfield, Massachusetts, tradition lives on
Hurricane LXXXIV
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Stunning works by Clifford Ross at the Portland Museum of Art
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Risky entanglements in the political arena—and the potential for major new academic investments
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Reginald Dwayne Betts performs Felon: A play; A discourse during a virtual lecture at the Harvard Graduate School of Design.
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Poet and lawyer—and MacArthur “genius”—Reginald Dwayne Betts on art and imprisonment
Emily Broad Leib at Cambridge’s Pemberton Farms
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Emily Broad Leib combats wasted food worldwide.
Jason Bouldin in his studio
Photograph by Thad Lee
Jason Bouldin makes the intangible tangible.
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First aid: Helped by the block of wideout Kym Wimberly (1) on Lafayette defensive back Shaikyi Hannah, Harvard running back Aidan Borguet churns goalward. Borguet piled up 169 yards and scored twice.
Photograph by Mairead B. Baker/The Harvard Crimson
The Crimson men overpower Lafayette.
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Over the goal: Harvard junior running back Aaron Shampklin eludes the desperate lunge of Cornell's Kenan Clarke to score the clinching touchdown. It was Shampklin's second score of the day and sixth of the season.
Photograph by Angela Dela Cruz
Harvard remains undefeated with a win over Cornell.
Big leg: A master of placement as well as power, Sot led the Ivies in punting in 2019 with a 42.3-yard average, highlighted by an almost surreal 76-yard boot against Holy Cross.
Photograph by Gil Talbot/Harvard Athletics Communications
Jon Sot “flips the field” and the Crimson excel early.
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Richard Lewontin, Richard Zeckhauser, diplomatic security, diverse inclusion, and admissions agita lampooned
(1) Carnations. (2) Gillyvors.
Perdita: The fairest flower o' the season
Are our Carnations and streaked Gillyvors,
Which some call Nature's bastards
Winter's Tale, Act IV, sc. 4
(3) Willow.
Queen: There is a Willow grows aslant a brook,
That shows his hoar leaves in the glassy stream.
There on the pendent boughs her coronet weeds
Clamoring to hang, an envious sliver broke.
Hamlet, Act IV, sc. 7Artwork by Rosa M. Towne and photograph by Edward Tabor
The discovery of Rosa M. Towne’s paintings in the Harvard Botanical Museum
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For synthetic biologists, there appears to be no limit to what they can build.
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Additional September-October issue letters to the editor
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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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Shawn Douglas of the Wyss Institute is developing drug-delivering machines that target designated cells.
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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.
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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
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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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