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How Harvard reunions are cast in Ceridwen Dovey’s Life After Truth
Clockwise from top left: Stephen Cook, Albert Fishlow, Helen Vendler, and Margaret Kivelson.
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The Graduate School of Arts and Sciences honors four alumni whose contributions to society emerged from their study at Harvard.
An acute casualty of the COVID-19 pandemic
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Tests in macaques show robust protection against the SARS-CoV-2 virus induced by either vaccines or natural infection.
Essential workers at highest risk of SARS-CoV-2 infection include cab drivers and police officers.
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Nearly half of early COVID-19 transmission was work-related—a cautionary note as the economy reopens.
Evelynn Hammonds and Paul Farmer
A conversation on health disparities, with Paul Farmer and Evelynn Hammonds
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A selection of stories covering the admission of women, the Harvard-Radcliffe merger, the rise of women in the faculty ranks, Harvard’s first woman president, and more
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Ceridwen Dovey
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How Harvard reunions are cast in Ceridwen Dovey’s Life After Truth
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(1 of 5) Untitled, Toni Morrison, 2006 by Robert McCurdy
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Alumnus-commissioned paintings of global luminaries are now a landmark gift to the National Portrait Gallery.
Our favorite stories on the legal minds reshaping American law
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“Rohan Duck” at Talulla
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Where to (eventually, again) feast with friends and family in Greater Boston
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(1 of 3) Exhibits, like this replica of a textile-mill floor, reveal long days of grueling work on dangerous mill machinery.Photograph courtesy of the Museum of Work & Culture
Woonsocket’s historic French-Canadian community
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(1 of 3) Lawman Captain Harry Love and two of his California Rangers (the state’s first law-enforcement agency), circa 1853Photograph courtesy of the Peabody Essex Museum
“Gold Rush: Daguerreotypes of Early California,” at the Peabody Essex Museum
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“The ‘ideal’ classroom never existed anyway, at least not in a perfectly equitable manner,” writes Julie Chung ’20.
A YouTube screenshot from the author’s virtual lab course
“The biggest obstacle to our collective learning is the elephant in the room: a global pandemic, taking place amid existing inequalities,” writes Drew Pendergrass ’20.
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(1 of 5) Untitled, Toni Morrison, 2006 by Robert McCurdy
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Alumnus-commissioned paintings of global luminaries are now a landmark gift to the National Portrait Gallery.
Discover a new series to watch in quarantine, or read about the creator behind your favorite show, in this selection of our TV stories
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Widener Library’s overlooked designer
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Erin McDermott
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McDermott will join Harvard from the University of Chicago July 1.
With 2020 winter sports ending early and the spring collegiate season wiped out almost entirely, we look back at some Crimson highlights from past years.
Senior forward Chris Lewis led the Crimson in rebounding, en route to an All-Ivy League Second Team selection.
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Injuries—and the coronavirus—lead to disappointing basketball seasons.
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Houseboating in Boston Harbor, Apthorp North, and clothing counts
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Walter Johnson’s radical history of St. Louis
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Daniela Lamas and the practice of post-ICU care
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Barrett at a favorite birding site overlooking Turtle Pond, in Central Park, with Manhattan’s Upper East Side beyond
Photograph by Robert Adam Mayer
Barrett at a favorite birding site overlooking Turtle Pond, in Central Park, with Manhattan’s Upper East Side beyond
Photograph by Robert Adam Mayer
