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A screen shot from the closing moments of the 2020 virtual degree-granting ceremony (a technologically enabled singing of “Fair Harvard”)—an exercise now being replicated in some form for a second consecutive pandemic spring
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The 370th degree-conferral will be online for the second consecutive year—with Ruth Simmons as guest speaker.
Kate Murtagh, chief compliance officer and managing director of sustainable investing at Harvard Management Company
Photograph by Stephanie Mitchell, Harvard University.
Harvard Management Company issues its first report on the “net-zero” greenhouse-gas emissions goal.
As expected, the anti-affirmative-action advocate appeals after losing in lower court rounds.
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A Harvard grandmother’s—and grandson’s—research
Harvard development partner Tishman Speyer’s proposed massing and configuration of buildings for the first phase of construction on the Enterprise Research Campus in Allston.
From Tishman Speyer's Project Notification Form filing.
Tishman Speyer details the first phase of the “enterprise research campus”—and points to a doubling of the project’s ultimate size.
In a new book, Louis Menand probes the cultural currents of postwar America.
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A Harvard grandmother’s—and grandson’s—research
The Undergraduate balances childhood and maturity.
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A Harvard grandmother’s—and grandson’s—research
Documentarian Lance Oppenheim explores life in The Villages.
Radhika Jones at the helm of Vanity Fair
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Turning your al fresco space into a springtime oasis
A short list of fine
documentaries and feature films
Greater Boston’s small cinemas strive to engage film-goers during the pandemic.
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A short list of fine
documentaries and feature films
Fiction about “the power that comes to us when we uncloset ourselves”
Documentarian Lance Oppenheim explores life in The Villages.
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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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From the archives
Elizabeth Hinton
Photograph by Stu Rosner
Historian Elizabeth Hinton probes the roots of a gathering crisis.
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A letter from the editor: an MIT vision of its educational future
Taxing carbon, teaching writing, legacy admissions, the sly Slive, louts
A letter from President Faust
A letter from the editor: an MIT vision of its educational future
Taxing carbon, teaching writing, legacy admissions, the sly Slive, louts
A letter from President Faust
Beginning the semester with Freshman Convocation, Morning Prayers, a learning and teaching conference, and cuts in employee benefits
A National Medal of Technology for SEAS dean, National Humanities Medalists, MacArthur Fellows, and more
Vice-presidential vacancies in finance and communications, sexual-assault legislation, grade inflation, and more
Further dialogue on campus, and climate-change actions elsewhere