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Michael Mina holds up a rapid test during a Zoom call with journalists
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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's acceptance rate drops as applications rise.
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Harvard admits a record-low 3.4 percent of applicants
William "Bill" Kristol.
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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.
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A professor and a marketing professional try a new tack in climate-change communications.
Harvard Computers and Radcliffe students in 1925
Photograph courtesy of the Harvard Library ArchivesAlumni scientist-filmmakers bring the Harvard Computers’ story to the screen.
Harvard Law School students Anna Vande Velde and William Roberts
Photograph courtesy of Harvard Law SchoolA Law School report offers the City of Boston recommendations for reform.
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Harvard's acceptance rate drops as applications rise.
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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.
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The College’s annual “Housing Day” dramas, conducted online.
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Loeb House, where the governing boards convene
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The annual election of Overseers and alumni association directors is under way.
Harvard Computers and Radcliffe students in 1925
Photograph courtesy of the Harvard Library ArchivesAlumni scientist-filmmakers bring the Harvard Computers’ story to the screen.
Noah Evers ’22 and his grandmother Patricia Greenfield ’62, Ph.D. ’66
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A Harvard grandmother’s—and grandson’s—research
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Turning your al fresco space into a springtime oasis
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Shen Wei in his New York studio, 2014
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“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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Harvard Computers and Radcliffe students in 1925
Photograph courtesy of the Harvard Library ArchivesAlumni scientist-filmmakers bring the Harvard Computers’ story to the screen.
A still from The Painter and the Thief
From the filmA short list of fine
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Solomon Gate in its typical open position
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.
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A legendary route’s disputed distance
An adept passer and gritty defender, Zeng also finished fifth in the Ivy League in service aces.
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Volleyball captain Sandra Zeng’s defensive focus
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Solomon Gate in its typical open position
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David Melly rounds Harvard Stadium. Running the loop counterclockwise, he acknowledges, is controversial.
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A legendary route’s disputed distance
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Letters
A letter from the editor: the Harvard-Stanford competition grows more intense.
Social science, diversity, harpsichords, divestment, hemlocks, and more
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Letters
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
Right Now
A new theory posits that as the brain grew, some regions were freed from necessary tasks
Harvard Squared
The last home and private garden of Frederick Law Olmsted, the father of modern landscape architecture
Boston’s chamber orchestra A Far Cry merges genres at the Gardner Museum.
Fall travel to New England’s seacoast offers art, history, biking, and great restaurants
John Harvard's Journal
Harvard Management Company’s president steps down, as the endowment faces new challenges.
Tanya Smith is a biological anthropologist who uses scientific methods to study human and primate teeth.
Professors’ contentments—and concerns about diversity and demands on their time for academic advances
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.
On second-guessing and seeking one’s passion
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.
Montage
In Uncertain Justice, Laurence Tribe and Joshua Matz examine the current Supreme Court.
Novelist and outdoorsman John Casey’s two new books look at teaching writing and his athletic exploits.
Correspondence on not-so-famous lost words
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