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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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Noah Evers ’22 and his grandmother Patricia Greenfield ’62, Ph.D. ’66
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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.
Illustration by Alex Williamson.
In a new book, Louis Menand probes the cultural currents of postwar America.
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Noah Evers ’22 and his grandmother Patricia Greenfield ’62, Ph.D. ’66
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A Harvard grandmother’s—and grandson’s—research
Tucson, Arizona
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The Undergraduate balances childhood and maturity.
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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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Documentarian Lance Oppenheim explores life in The Villages.
Radhika Jones
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Radhika Jones at the helm of Vanity Fair
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Turning your al fresco space into a springtime oasis
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From the filmA short list of fine
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Coolidge Corner Theater offers small-group rentals.
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Greater Boston’s small cinemas strive to engage film-goers during the pandemic.
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From the filmA short list of fine
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Justin Deabler
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Fiction about “the power that comes to us when we uncloset ourselves”
A senior cheer group
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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
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
At Houghton and Lamont libraries, a creative new entry into the Yard
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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Historian Elizabeth Hinton probes the roots of a gathering crisis.
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November-December 2014
Letters
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
The College Pump
Treasure
In this Issue
James Laughlin’s transit to Harvard and Europe—and pioneering literary publishing
Letters
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
Right Now
Researchers at Mclean Hospital develop a magnet that treats depression and bipolar disorder
Harnessing civic data makes governments more responsive to citizens.
Harvard Squared
Gospel choir concert offers Christmas songs and other inspirational music at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
A new exhibit at Harvard’s Peabody Museum highlights decorative weaponry through the ages.
The greenhouses at Wellesley College Botanic Gardens offer greenery and blossoms in winter.
John Harvard's Journal
Harvard’s Art Museums reopen, poised to fulfill their pedagogical purpose.
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
Harvard's endowment nearly returns to its peak value—and welcomes new investment leadership.
Vice-presidential vacancies in finance and communications, sexual-assault legislation, grade inflation, and more
Further dialogue on campus, and climate-change actions elsewhere
Wesley Saunders of basketball excels at anticipation, just as he did in chess.
Montage
In To Make Men Free, Heather Cox Richardson seeks to explain the back-and-forth history of Republican Party goals.
Rejecting the “tyranny of competence,” John Payne helps musicians bloom.
Correspondence on not-so-famous lost words
Alumni
Harvard’s World War I participants are honored in an updated volume edited by Douglass M. Carver ’59.
“Harvard-Hiring-Harvard” helps students find employment.
Filmmakers seek visual material from the early days of Partners In Health.
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