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Matthew Potts, Memorial Church’s new leader
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A successor leader of the Memorial Church
Byerly Hall, where the Radcliffe Institute fellows will be able to convene again once fall semester arrives
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Dean Brown-Nagin emphasizes fellows who will “reckon with this moment and its meaning.”
President Bacow releases directive to the community.
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After renovation, 60 Oxford Street will become the hub for quantum science and engineering at Harvard.
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Renovation of 60 Oxford Street will create a quantum hub where theorists and engineers work side by side.
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Ellen Langer rejects binary thinking, embracing instead a “third way.”
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President Bacow releases directive to the community.
Jeremy Lin
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The former NBA star headlines the undergraduates’ virtual celebration May 26.
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The world's first Victorian passive house, at 60 Stearns Street in Cambridge, Massachusetts
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HBS alumna Betsy Harper develops the first net-zero-energy, Victorian “passive house” in the world.
Kevin Young
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The acclaimed poet and director of the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture will speak at the annual meeting on June 4—and other graduation-week speakers are announced.
From left to right: Walter K. Clair, Nancy-Beth Gordon Sheerr, Preston N. Williams.
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Alumni Association announces Harvard Medalists.
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The evocative Love Potion
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A blend of Russian Orthodox iconography and mythical motifs
Piattini's sunken patio on Newbury Street, in Boston
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Boston's Piattini Wine Café
A 1983 Houston Astros jersey worn by pitcher Joe Niekro
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The Worcester Art Museum spotlights baseball garb.
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Juneteenth pride: commemorating June 19 in 2020, in Greenwood, the site of the Tulsa, Oklahoma, race massacre of 1921
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Annette Gordon-Reed on the real history of Texas, and Juneteenth
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The world's first Victorian passive house, at 60 Stearns Street in Cambridge, Massachusetts
Photograph by Kristina DeMichele/Harvard Magazine.
HBS alumna Betsy Harper develops the first net-zero-energy, Victorian “passive house” in the world.
Click on arrow at right to view full image
The evocative Love Potion
Image courtesy of Alexander Gassel and the Museum of Russian Icons
A blend of Russian Orthodox iconography and mythical motifs
Braxton Shelley
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A gospel scholar shapes music theory.
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A 1983 Houston Astros jersey worn by pitcher Joe Niekro
Courtesy of the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum/Milo Stewart Jr. B-50-83
The Worcester Art Museum spotlights baseball garb.
Martin S. Feldstein
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Wisdom from the Great Depression—plus an accomplished economist, and rowdiness on the Charles
For the energetic Rueb, raising an athlete’s floor is as important as raising his ceiling.
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Andrew Rueb’s experience on the professional tennis circuit informs his coaching.
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University Hall, home to the Faculty of Arts and Sciences offices, where faculty meetings are held
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Honors teaching excellence, and the memory of Nathan Glazer, in last regular meeting of the academic year
Martin S. Feldstein
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Scarcity, energy options, David Ferry, home schooling, and more
A letter from President Faust
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A mannerly, serious-minded 364th Commencement, from Drew Faust and Deval L. Patrick to Ruth Bader Ginsburg
President Drew Faust, Governor Deval L. Patrick, and others weigh in during ROTC and Commencement exercises.
Rakesh Khurana, dean of the College, asks hard questions about the mission of a Harvard education.
Lack of access to surgery globally will cost $12.3 trillion during the next 15 years.
A new dean for engineering and applied sciences, a departing public-health leader, the new CFO, top teachers, and more
Endowing engineering and applied sciences, critiquing Gen Ed, addressing sexual assault, and evolving online
Reconstructing the Kennedy School campus, Toni Morrison lectures, inventing venture capital, administrators’ pay, and more
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Newly elected directors of the Harvard Alumni Association
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