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Michael Mina maintains a new testing regimen could end the COVID-19 pandemic—in three weeks.
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Courtesy of the Education Redesign LabA conversation on the crisis and its outcomes with the Graduate School of Education’s Paul Reville
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Photograph by Mancala/WikipediaStudents urge closer attention to care on campus this fall.
Attack U.S. Department of Homeland Security and Immigration and Customs Enforcement directive
Facing legal challenges, the University does away with its controversial regulations on final clubs, fraternities, and sororities.
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Philip Caruso, J.D-M.B.A '19, helped coordinate the military's response to COVID-19 in New York.
Photo courtesy of Philip CarusoHarvard affiliates aid the Defense Department's response to COVID-19 in New York.
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Getting away and outside safely this summer
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How to plan your staycation summer
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(1 of 4) Crabapple specimens, with views of Boston, on Peters HillPhotograph by Jon Hetman/Courtesy of the Arnold Arboretum
Summertime at the Arnold Arboretum
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A statue of John C. Calhoun is removed on June 24 in Charleston, South Carolina.
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The rise and fall of Charleston’s John C. Calhoun statue, a monument to white supremacy
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The U.S. Army's 24th Infantry Regiment, an African-American regiment, arriving at Camp Wikoff in Montauk, New York, 1898
Roosevelt Class No. 560.3, Theodore Roosevelt Collection, Harvard College Library, Harvard UniversityA Houghton Library project to digitize thousands of African-American records and artifacts
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The league becomes first in Division I to scrap fall competition.
Beds were set up for Spanish flu patients outside the Harvard-affiliated Peter Bent Brigham Hospital in 1918.
Photograph courtesy of the Brigham and Women's Hospital ArchivesFall semester interrupted, a century ago
Georgina Milne tucks and flips, helping Harvard defeat Brown.
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Diver Georgina Milne pictures a post-pandemic return.
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Beds were set up for Spanish flu patients outside the Harvard-affiliated Peter Bent Brigham Hospital in 1918.
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July-August 2020
(Click on arrow at right to view full image) No true likeness of Callimachus is known to exist, but the Libyan-born poet probably resembled the men whose faces appear on the Hellenistic coffins unearthed in Fayum, Egypt, including this one.
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Brief life (via Platonic dialogue) of a multifaceted poet: c. 310 B.C.E. - c. 240 B.C.E.
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Tom Nichols dissects the dangerous antipathy to expertise.
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Land-use restrictions lead to growing income disparities between states, Kennedy School researchers find.
The breeding behavior of tropical cuckoos, in which unrelated adults share a communal nest, proves an exception to the theory of kin selection.
Harvard scientists have developed a tiny, lightweight, distortion-free lens that focuses light without glass.
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The institutional master plan notification form Harvard filed in October 2012 no longer relies on debt-financing or unrealistic endowment payouts.
A blunt picture of universities' altered circumstances—and a forecast of changed operations to come
A reporting change reflects the upheaval in Harvard's finances.
From the pages of the <i>Harvard Alumni Bulletin</i> and <i>Harvard Magazine</i>
The first University-wide Sustainability Impact Report reveals challenging goals.
I-Lab students work in interdisciplinary teams to address urban and civic challenges in the Dudley and Upham’s Corner neighborhoods.
The Undergraduate discovers that doubt is the place from which to start.
Montage
In <i>Brothers: On His Brothers and Brothers in History,</i> George Howe Colt offers autobiography and biography both.
Correspondence on not-so-famous lost words
Alumni
The dazzling beauty and strangely human behavior of one of the world’s most diverse bird families.
Alumni, an alumna, and a former Law School professor will join the 113th Congress.
Rachel Cox ’74 pays written tribute to an uncle and his friends with <i>Into Dust and Fire: Five Young Americans Who Went First to Fight the Nazi Army.</i>
Shared Interest Group events in January and February
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