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  Meredith Rosenthal (center) spoke about pharmaceutical marketing's role in the opioid crisis. She is Gray professor of health economics at the Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health.
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  "Effective Treatment Everywhere"
  
  A joint Harvard-University of Michigan summit addresses opioids stigma, drug marketing, and race.
  
  5.14.19
  
  What They Earned
  
  The University discloses top employees’ pay in its annual tax filing.
  
  5.10.19
  
  Jorge Dominguez
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  Jorge Domínguez Loses Emeritus Status after Misconduct Investigation
  
  The former government professor was found to have engaged in sexual harassment for nearly 40 years.
  
  5.9.19
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  Meredith Rosenthal (center) spoke about pharmaceutical marketing's role in the opioid crisis. She is Gray professor of health economics at the Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health.
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  "Effective Treatment Everywhere"
  
  A joint Harvard-University of Michigan summit addresses opioids stigma, drug marketing, and race.
  
  5.14.19
  
  Byerly Hall
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  Radcliffe Institute Announces 2019-2020 Fellows
  
  Scholars from diverse disciplines will spend a year devoted to research.
  
  5.9.19
  
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  Rethinking the American High School
  
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  May-June 2019
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  Harvard Adopts Quantitative Reasoning, Studies Preregistration
  
  The Faculty of Arts and Sciences enacts a full agenda of undergraduate academic and social policies.
  
  5.7.19
  
  Harvard College dean Rakesh Khurana
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  “Service Starts with Summer”
  
  Harvard College’s down payment on universal student public service
  
  4.28.19
  
  Coming to Terms with Sexual Harassment
  
  Winthrop House tensions and government department concerns
  
  May-June 2019
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  Divest Harvard Makes Case for Dropping Fossil Fuels
  
  Students, faculty, and alumni urge the ditching of corporations linked to climate change.
  
  4.23.19
  
  The author’s father, Noah Gibson, playing fiddle with friends at an Irish music session
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  4.19.19
  
  Alan Gilbert ’65, Ph.D. ’74 (twice suspended, separated, and readmitted in 1973 by a two-thirds faculty vote) speaks at a gathering of current and former student activists three days before Friday’s conference.
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  4.17.19
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  Garden in the Woods features the white spring ephemerals, such asTrillium grandiflorum, during Trillium Week (May 5-11).
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  May-June 2019
  
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  May-June 2019
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  “No more pencils, no more books…”
  
  Students’ Top 10 list: it’s not academic
  
  May-June 2019
  
  Lawrence S. Bacow
  
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  President Bacow on friendships formed among and between scholars and students
  
  May-June 2019
  
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  The Work of Art
  
  At a seminal conference, black creative intellectuals explore white supremacy, the arts, and justice.
  
  5.1.19
  
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  Nieman Fellow Eliza Griswold Wins Pulitzer Prize
  
  Her book Amity and Prosperity: One Family and the Fracturing of America is the choice in general nonfiction.
  
  4.16.19
  
  Jocelyn and Chris Arndt, siblings from Fort Plain, New York, balanced a full-time tour schedule and undergraduate life.
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  Weekend Rock Stars
  
  For two Harvard siblings, studying and songwriting went hand in hand.
  
  May-June 2019
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  Red Rocks Conservation Area, in Gloucester, Massachusetts
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  May-June 2019
  
  Chapter and Verse
  
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  May-June 2019
  
  Noah Kirkwood ’22, the Ivy League Rookie of the Year, emerged as one of Harvard’s top offensive threats.
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  A Cathedral of Sweat
  
  Basketball teams fall short of NCAAs again.
  
  May-June 2019
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  May-June 2019
  
  After graduating from the College in 1861, Holmes obtained a commission as first lieutenant in the Twentieth Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry, known as the “Harvard Regiment.”
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  America’s Great Modern Justice
  
  A new biography of Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. illuminates the Supreme Court during the centennial of his most momentous dissent.
  
  May-June 2019
  
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  Paper Persists
  
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  May-June 2019
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After graduating from the College in 1861, Holmes obtained a commission as first lieutenant in the Twentieth Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry, known as the “Harvard Regiment.”
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Barry Mazur Awarded National Medal of Science

1.7.13

Barry Mazur

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Gade University Professor Barry Mazur will be awarded the National Medal of Science—one of 12 honorands who will be recognized in a ceremony at the White House early this year. The medal, the nation's highest recognition for scientists and mathematicians, will be conferred by President Barack Obama.

Mazur is a leading number theorist. For a review of his book Imagining Numbers, read “On Mathematical Imagination,” from this magazine’s archives.

Read the Boston Globe story on the National Science medalists here.

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