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Peabody Museum
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Dean Claudine Gay on the Native American hair clippings in Harvard’s holdings
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A business school study finds hybrid workers generate more novel and useful information.
The proposed performing arts center, as seen from across North Harvard Street.
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The project will also include Harvard housing.
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Illustration by Nathan Daniels
A business school study finds hybrid workers generate more novel and useful information.
Ieva Jusionyte spoke at the Radcliffe Institute on the effect of American firearms on Mexican society.
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On the “exit wounds” of America’s gun industry in Mexico
Tulip trees of Eastern North America and Eastern Asia, which last shared a common ancestor 14 million years ago.
Photographs by William (Ned) Freedman
Exploring the “plant humanities” at Harvard’s Dumbarton Oaks
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At Freshman Convocation, the class of 2026 banner is unfurled for the first time.
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Speakers’ remarks reflect the urgencies of a turbulent time.
Harvard Business School
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Ten percent of MBA students to receive full tuition scholarships
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Sarah Karmon, new HAA executive director
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An HAA veteran will succeed Philip Lovejoy as executive director.
Hansjörg Wyss
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The philanthropist makes a fourth gift to support basic and translational research.
Ben S. Bernanke
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Three scholars honored for work on banking and financial crises.
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Twins (Subway), 2018, by Jordan Casteel
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A new exhibit at the Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston
Downtown’s snowy pedestrian mall
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Exploring Burlington, Vermont
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The proposed performing arts center, as seen from across North Harvard Street.
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The project will also include Harvard housing.
Twins (Subway), 2018, by Jordan Casteel
Courtesy of the artist and Casey Kaplan Gallery, New York. © Jordan Casteel
A new exhibit at the Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston
Seligson’s “gallery” above her sofa at home
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Painter Judith Seligson’s creative juxtapositions
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(1/5) DOG DAY AFTERNOON Yale's Handsome Dan XIX and a Harvard University Police dog wondered what the ruckus was all about.
Photographs by Julian Giordano/The Harvard Crimson
A tough finish to a quirky season
SPREADING THE WEALTH Enjoying one of the best days for a quarterback in Harvard annals, Charlie Dean (11) surveys the Penn defense. The Crimson senior signal-caller riddled the Quakers, completing 29 of 38 passes for 316 yards and four touchdowns while connecting with nine receivers.
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Dean passes the Quakers silly—and Eli’s coming!
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(1/4) CRUNCH TIME Harvard's Joe Young is converged upon by a beehive of Columbia tacklers. The Crimson senior wideout snared three passes, one for 22 yards.
Photograph by Angela Dela Cruz/The Harvard CrimsonSloppy play and a wily Lion create a nightmarish loss.
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The official portrait captures its subject’s “intensity and even restlessness.”
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Celebrating the twenty-seventh president—and assessing his legacy
George Reisner, 1924
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Brief life of a pioneering Egyptologist: 1867-1942
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A young girl jumps rope on the sidewalk next to her family’s belongings after they received a court order of eviction that was carried out by McLennan County deputy constables in Waco, Texas. Families like hers are the kind of clients badly in need of legal representation—and most often unlikely to receive it.
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America’s unfulfilled promise of “equal justice under law”
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Letters
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The College Pump
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New gateways into the humanities for students “still fully molten as human beings”
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During a quarter-century of engagement in Vietnam's economic development, Harvard scholars create a unique educational institution.
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Attentive Schlesinger, “Bellboys,” bigger data
A letter from the editor
A letter from President Faust
Right Now
Under pressure, getting excited yields better results than remaining calm.
Historian Maya Jasanoff says fiction can capture the subjective experience of the past.
John Harvard's Journal
After a multiyear renovation, Harvard Art Museums make ready for a November reopening.
The first analyses of online-course registrants—and "dropouts"—and other MOOC news
Two new Corporation members, College tuition and admissions, Allston teaching spaces, and more
A landmark gift for financial aid, and other campaign gains
Distance runner Maksim Korolev has set Harvard and Ivy League records in cross-country and track.
Harvard’s men’s basketball team lost, 80-73, to Michigan State in the NCAA tournament, giving them a scare.
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2014 candidates for Harvard Overseer and HAA elected directors
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