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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.
Photograph courtesy of Meena Venkataramanan.
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
Photo by Lauren Greenfield ’87
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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From the filmA short list of fine
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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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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.
Photograph by Gil Talbot/Harvard Athletic Communications
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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July-August 2015
Letters
A letter from the editor
Scarcity, energy options, David Ferry, home schooling, and more
A letter from President Faust
The College Pump
Treasure
In this Issue
An economic analyst of sports dissects the assumptions behind Boston's bid for the 2024 Olympics.
Letters
A letter from the editor
Scarcity, energy options, David Ferry, home schooling, and more
A letter from President Faust
Right Now
The Harvard Football Players Health Study aims to treat athletes’ medical problems, from head injuries to torn ACLs.
Harvard Squared
John Harvard's Journal
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
Sharpening your mind during the summer months with a HarvardX course or a faculty profile.
A Gen Ed course teaches a booklover about science, and her parents.
Montage
Correspondence on not-so-famous lost words
Alumni
Singer Candice Hoyes reinterprets Duke Ellington songs in her new album On a Turquoise Cloud.
Newly elected directors of the Harvard Alumni Association
Four Harvard seniors have won scholarships to study at Cambridge University
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