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Rapid COVID-19 tests, of the kind that Michael Mina has been advocating since last year, are finally approved for home use.
Harvard admits a record-low 3.4 percent of applicants
Bill Kristol discusses the future of the Republican Party and the survival of American constitutional democracy.
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A professor and a marketing professional have teamed up to raise awareness of the climate problem through the nonpartisan, nonprofit Potential Energy Coalition.
From the potentialenergycoalition.org website
A professor and a marketing professional try a new tack in climate-change communications.
Alumni scientist-filmmakers bring the Harvard Computers’ story to the screen.
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Harvard admits a record-low 3.4 percent of applicants
Cabot House members cheered up the wintry Quad with their hand-crafted ice lanterns.
Photograph courtesy of Cabot House faculty dean Ian Miller and resident dean Meg Lockwood.
Undergraduate Houses experiment and innovate in attempts to revive the effervescence that once characterized their student communities.
March 2018, Randolph Courtyard: The author (center) and her two future roommates, Sreya at left and Pranati at right, have just run over from the Yard on Housing Day, having learned they’d been assigned to Adams House.
Photograph courtesy of Meena Venkataramanan.
The College’s annual “Housing Day” dramas, conducted online.
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The annual election of Overseers and alumni association directors is under way.
Alumni scientist-filmmakers bring the Harvard Computers’ story to the screen.
A Harvard grandmother’s—and grandson’s—research
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Turning your al fresco space into a springtime oasis
A short list of fine
documentaries and feature films
“Shen Wei: Painting in Motion,” at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum
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March 2018, Randolph Courtyard: The author (center) and her two future roommates, Sreya at left and Pranati at right, have just run over from the Yard on Housing Day, having learned they’d been assigned to Adams House.
Photograph courtesy of Meena Venkataramanan.
The College’s annual “Housing Day” dramas, conducted online.
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Alumni scientist-filmmakers bring the Harvard Computers’ story to the screen.
A short list of fine
documentaries and feature films
At Houghton and Lamont libraries, a creative new entry into the Yard
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David Melly rounds Harvard Stadium. Running the loop counterclockwise, he acknowledges, is controversial.
Photograph by Molly Malone
A legendary route’s disputed distance
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A letter from the editor: the Harvard-Stanford competition grows more intense.
Social science, diversity, harpsichords, divestment, hemlocks, and more
A letter from President Faust
A letter from the editor: the Harvard-Stanford competition grows more intense.
Social science, diversity, harpsichords, divestment, hemlocks, and more
A letter from President Faust
Tanya Smith is a biological anthropologist who uses scientific methods to study human and primate teeth.
Math and science honorands, and a new development dean
Honorand Seymour Slive’s passing, Presidents Faust and Summers together, sexual-assault reforms, and more
Harvard evaluates “blended” courses that draw on MOOC material.
Norman Hayes explains how he plays defense for the Harvard football team as a cornerback and nickel back.
Football scribe John T. Bethell hangs up his cleats after 43 seasons; Dick Friedman goes on duty.