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Currently dean of the Rice University School of Architecture, Whiting will assume her new post on July 1.
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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A conference looks back at Harvard’s 1969 student strike.
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Her book Amity and Prosperity: One Family and the Fracturing of America is the choice in general nonfiction.
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Ben Green warns against simple technological solutions for complex problems.
Howard Gardner and Wendy Fischman, now analyzing interviews from 10 campuses
Photograph courtesy of Howard Gardner
Howard Gardner and colleagues release a seven-year study of higher education in the twenty-first century.
Illustration by Kasia Bogdanska
Could inflammation be the cause of myriad chronic conditions?
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After missing the first few games of the 2019 season with a concussion, Skinner has been among the Ivy League leaders in on-base percentage.
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For speedy center fielder Ben Skinner, slowing down is key.
Red Rocks Conservation Area, in Gloucester, Massachusetts
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Rock climbing in Greater Boston—and beyond
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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.
Photograph by Lydia S.C. Rosenberg/Harvard Magazine
A conference looks back at Harvard’s 1969 student strike.
Click on image for full book cover
Her book Amity and Prosperity: One Family and the Fracturing of America is the choice in general nonfiction.
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Garden in the Woods features the white spring ephemerals, such asTrillium grandiflorum, during Trillium Week (May 5-11).
Photograph courtesy of Native Plant Trust and Garden in the Woods/Photography by Dan Jaffe
Springtime at New England’s native-plant haven
Tatte Bakery’s pastry counter
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A Harvard Squared local business roundup
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President Bacow on friendships formed among and between scholars and students
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Her book Amity and Prosperity: One Family and the Fracturing of America is the choice in general nonfiction.
Jocelyn and Chris Arndt, siblings from Fort Plain, New York, balanced a full-time tour schedule and undergraduate life.
Photograph courtesy of Shore Fire Media
For two Harvard siblings, studying and songwriting went hand in hand.
Accidental comics writer Amy Chu
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Graphic novelist Amy Chu
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Red Rocks Conservation Area, in Gloucester, Massachusetts
Photograph by Vladislav Sevostianov
Rock climbing in Greater Boston—and beyond
Noah Kirkwood ’22, the Ivy League Rookie of the Year, emerged as one of Harvard’s top offensive threats.
Photograph by Gavin Baker/Sideline Photos
Basketball teams fall short of NCAAs again.
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Illustration by Mark Steele
Demonstrating for equality…and other headlines from Harvard’s history
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.”
Photograph courtesy of the Harvard Law School Library, Historical & Special Collections
A new biography of Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. illuminates the Supreme Court during the centennial of his most momentous dissent.
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Poster courtesy of Dumbarton Oaks Archives Ephemera Collection (AR.EP.PS.0669)
Resesarchers’ lengthy labors, “Diploma Riots,” supporting young scholars
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May-June 2019
Bibliophile behind the footlights: Harry Widener (front row, far left) acted in high school in an English version of a French farce.
Photograph courtesy of the Hill School Archives
Brief life of a theater-loving bibliophile: 1885-1912
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American activists unfurl a banner in front of the Supreme Court.
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An historian tracks the death penalty’s persistence in America.
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Philip Lovejoy
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Harvard Alumni Association executive director Philip Lovejoy has plans
Philip Lovejoy
Photograph by Will Halsey/Courtesy of the Harvard Alumni Association
Harvard Alumni Association executive director Philip Lovejoy has plans
