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The Undergraduate returns to student life, altered by the pandemic and a year spent apart.
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Letters on compromise, constitutional revision, voting fraud, American democracy, and students and cigarettes
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Right Now
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.
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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