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Nancy Hopkins (center) stands with Salvador Luria (left) and David Baltimore at the MIT Cancer Center in the 1980s.
Photograph courtesy of MIT Museum
New book on Nancy Hopkins speaks to women's fight for equality then—and their fight now
The human rights advocate co-founded Partners In Health in 1987.
Spanning more than 50 years, the conceptual artist’s work explores race, class, gender, and identity.
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Horsemanship appears to have played a key role in the spread of the Yamnaya people.
Photograph by istock and altered by Jennifer Carling/Harvard Magazine
New evidence on domestication of horses—and the spread of an ancient Eurasian culture
The Salata Institute has chosen five teams to pursue solutions to a variety of climate-change impacts.
Logo courtesy of Salata Institute; solar panel photograph by Unsplash
Teams of Harvard researchers will develop concrete proposals for addressing specific climate impacts.
As the ranks of the elderly swell, there are too few housing options for seniors who want to “age in place.”
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Brief life of a Harvard-educated Buddhist scholar: 1854-1899
Alexandra Petri introduces the poet to tech support for help with her keyboard.
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Pursuing their individual brands, colleges neglect the needs of higher education.
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Spanning more than 50 years, the conceptual artist’s work explores race, class, gender, and identity.
Patricia and Edmund Michael Frederick have been collecting and restoring historical pianos since the 1970s.
Photograph by Jim Harrison
An instrument restorer’s beautiful obsession
A new novel from foreign correspondent Wendell Steavenson
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Harmoni Turner '25 had 21 points, 13 assists, and 10 rebounds, making her just the sixth player in Ivy League history to earn a triple-double.
Photograph courtesy of Harvard Athletics
Women’s basketball demolishes Towson in the first round of the WNIT.
Chris Ledlum makes a breakaway dunk after stealing the ball during a game last November against Loyola Chicago.
Photograph by Gil Talbot/Harvard Athletics
Chris Ledlum ’23 makes his mark on the hardcourt.
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Brief life of a Harvard-educated Buddhist scholar: 1854-1899
Cornhole at HBS, prayer and meditation at SEAS, minerologist’s meter, eclipse aficionado
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Illustration by Darrel Rees
Researchers studying 95 million Medicare records find new fine-particle impacts in the blood, gut, skin, kidneys, and other organs.
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A letter from the editor
On Mary Sears, Gen Ed, football concussions, and more
A letter from President Faust
In Nigeria, Tomato Jos hopes to help improve farmers’ practices and sales, to boost their incomes.
Photograph courtesy of Tomato Jos
Addressing human needs at the base of the economic pyramid through private enterprise
Andrew Bujalski
Photograph by Jay L. Clendenin/Contour by Getty Images
The perfect pitch of filmmaker Andrew Bujalski
With her 1964 screenprint the juiciest tomato of all, Corita Kent created a word portrait of the Virgin Mary as a tomato. This print seems to establish the artist nun as an apostate: in fact, she was responding both to liberalizing changes taking place within the Catholic Church as part of the Second Vatican Council and to Pop art’s appropriation of commercial language, images, and symbols to create fine art.
Collection of Jason Simon, New York, TL41302. © Corita Art Center, Immaculate Heart Community, Los Angeles; Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of John and Kimiko Powers, M15531. © / courtesy of the Harvard Art Museums/ © President and Fellows of Harvard College
A Harvard exhibit situates her work in the Pop art movement.
A letter from the editor
On Mary Sears, Gen Ed, football concussions, and more
A letter from President Faust
Illustration by Mike Lester
Overly aggressive physicians account for significant healthcare cost, according to a recent study.
Fossil river deltas on Mars, such as this one in Eberswalde Crater, bear many similarities to river deltas on Earth. Such features suggest that Mars once had flowing liquid water on the surface, motivating study of the planet’s early climate.
Photograph by NASA/JPL/Malin Space Science Systems
Researchers suspect ancient Martian climate was cold and icy.
The Crane Estate’s palatial abode and hillside Casino Complex
Photograph Courtesy of the Trustees
Restorations revive the grand spirit of a North Shore estate.
Masks, mariachi music, and sugar skulls at Harvard’s Peabody Museum
Roger D. Metcalf/Courtesy of the Peabody Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology
The Peabody Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology highlights the holiday on November 1.
Animaris Adulari (2012)
Photographs courtesy of Theo Jansen
Dutch artist Theo Jansen's otherworldly strandbeests
Heavy construction under way in the Harvard Kennedy School's (former) courtyard
Photograph by Harvard Magazine/JC
Overhauling the Kennedy School campus, the Business School’s new executive-education center, and College House renewal
On the first day of the new curriculum’s launch, Gordon professor of medical education Richard Schwartzstein (at far right, and in subsequent photographs) leads an orientation in a large group classroom equipped with interactive technologies that facilitate case-based collaborative learning.
Photograph by Stu Rosner
Harvard Medical School's new curriculum emphasizes the process of learning to learn rather than rote memorization.
Catherine Brekus
Photograph by Stu Rosner
A Harvard Divinity School specialist on women in early America
Robin J. Ely
Photograph by Kris Snibbe/Harvard Public Affairs and Communications
The Business School looks at gender effects within organizations—and its own walls.
One of Chiang’s covers for Wonder Woman
Image by Cliff Chiang
A comics artist tries his hand at a new story.
Forrest O’Connor (at left), Kate Lee, and Jim Shirey
Photograph by Wayne Ebinger
A folk trio finds their harmony, on the road.
Correspondence on not-so-famous lost words
Olmsted's 1867 plan for “Fort Green or Washington Park, in the city of Brooklyn,” New York Plan from Design for Laying Out Grounds Known as Fort Green or Washington Park, in the City of Brooklyn, 1897
Courtesy of the Prospect Park Alliance
Olmsted's parks, Putin and Ukraine, climate shock, and more
Record Hospital veteran Peter Menz tests a rock-and-roll 45.
Photograph by Stu Rosner
For 75 years, WHRB has moved beyond the “warhorses.”
An 1840 etching of the alumni procession during Harvard’s bicentennial celebration in 1836
Courtesy of the Harvard Universty Archives
The Harvard Alumni Association celebrates its founding.