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Claudine Gay announces the advisory committee for successor to Frank Doyle.
Long COVID Symptoms
Healthy lifestyle factors may reduce the risk of long COVID symptoms, including fatigue, attention disorders, memory loss, shortness of breath, digestive disorders, and anxiety and depression.
Harvard researchers find that lifestyle factors like weight and sleep are associated with reduced risk.
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Long COVID Symptoms
Healthy lifestyle factors may reduce the risk of long COVID symptoms, including fatigue, attention disorders, memory loss, shortness of breath, digestive disorders, and anxiety and depression.
Harvard researchers find that lifestyle factors like weight and sleep are associated with reduced risk.
A genetic analysis of long-lived species of rockfish has led to fresh insights into human longevity, and a previously unappreciated pathway governing lifespan.
ExxonMobil scientists' projections of global warming were at least as good as those of government and academic scientists in the period from 1977 to 2003.
Photomontage illustration by Niko Yaitanes/Harvard Magazine; photographs by Unsplash
What fossil fuel interests knew about climate change, and when
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Harvard Law students, and others, critique legal practice.
The complicated return to campus post-pandemic
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Lessons from Bangkok presented at the Harvard Graduate School of Design
Top row, left to right: Sylvia Mathews Burwell, Jeffrey D. Dunn, Arturo Elizondo, Srishti Gupta Narasimhan
Bottom row, left to right: Fiona Hill, Vanessa W. Liu, Robert L. Satcher Jr., Luis A. UbiñasPhotographs courtesy of HAA; photomontage by Harvard Magazine
The 2023 nominees detail their experiences and view of Harvard’s challenges and prospects.
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The author (center) celebrates after her recital performance in Holden Chapel with friends Kelsey Ichikawa ’20 (left) and Stephanie Tang ’20.
Photograph courtesy of Julie Chung
A Harvard singing class that's about more than music
The honorees will visit Cambridge next week for a parade, a show, and a (loving) roast.
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Carrie Moore is in her first year as Delaney-Smith head coach of women's basketball.
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Carrie Moore’s first season coaching the women’s basketball team
Edwin Bancroft Henderson and the history behind the Harvard-Howard game
Trampoline parks—fun for all ages
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The honorees will visit Cambridge next week for a parade, a show, and a (loving) roast.
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Room for improvement in Wintersession
Readers respond to articles on migration, capital punishment, House “masters,” and more.
President Faust on Harvard’s “science and medicine” community
Members of the Dark Room Collective, photographed by Elsa Dorfman in 2013; from left to right: Sharan Strange, Janice Lowe, Danielle Legros Georges, John Keene, Tisa Bryant, Major Jackson, Artress Bethany White, Thomas Sayers Ellis, Patrick Sylvain, and Tracy K. Smith
Photograph © 2016 Elsa Dorfman, RI ’72-’74
How the Dark Room Collective made space for a generation of African-American writers
Chris Green and Kristen Stilt in Austin Hall’s Ames courtroom with Lola, Stilt’s rescue dog from Egypt
Photograph by Stu Rosner
Animal law takes hold at Harvard Law School.
Caleb Strong portrait by Gilbert Stuart, courtesy of Frederick Strong Moseley III ’51
Brief life of an exemplary politician: 1745-1819
The views of Charles William Eliot and Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. (whose images follow) aided the descendants of immigrants in keeping out new immigrants, as depicted in Joseph Keppler’s 1893 “Looking Backward,” from Puck.
Puck, January 11, 1893
When academics embraced scientific racism, immigration restrictions, and the suppression of “the unfit”
Room for improvement in Wintersession
Readers respond to articles on migration, capital punishment, House “masters,” and more.
President Faust on Harvard’s “science and medicine” community
Daniel Nagin, faculty director of the clinic (right), and Andrew Roach, J.D. ’13, meet with a veteran in Jamaica Plain.
Photograph courtesy of the Harvard Law School Veterans Law and Disability Benefits Clinic
Harvard Law students fight for veterans’ rights locally and nationally.
The Asian American Dance Troupe
Photograph by Jon Chase/Harvard Public Affairs and Communications
Harvard's Arts First Festival offers more than 100 events.
A Sherman tank dominates the “America Enters the War” exhibit
Photographs courtesy of the Museum of World War II
As living memory of the war dims, curators shape a modern museum of history.
See new lambs, try out the arts of spinning and weaving, and witness the annual rite of sheep-shearing at Drumlin Farm in Lincoln, Massachusetts.
Photograph courtesy of Drumlin Farm Wildlife Sanctuary
Woolapalooza is held at Mass Audubon’s sanctuary in Lincoln, Massachusetts.
Mather House co-master Michael Rosengarten and master Christie McDonald
Photograph courtesy of Christie McDonald and Michael Rosengarten
The Harvard community confronts the challenges of inclusion.
An Overseers' challenge slate, reengineering admissions, and General Education revised
Shirley M. Tilghman
Photograph courtesy of Shirley M. Tilghman
Shirley Tilghman on the Corporation, Jane Yellen at Radcliffe, encouraging entrepreneurs, aiming at endowments, and more
Illustration by Miguel Davilla
“The absence of prejudice is still a long way from the presence of interest.”
This season Maschmeyer made her 2,108th save, surpassing the Harvard women’s hockey all-time record.
Photograph by Jim Harrison
Hockey goalie Emerance Maschmeyer steadies her team, in record-setting fashion.
A scene from New Line Theatre's production of High Fidelity, from its 2011-2012 season
Photograph © New Line Theatre
A daring musical theater company turns 25.
Looking up: For all their evolutionary advantages, mammalian species have shorter life spans than ants and trees.
Photograph by © JF Tringali/istock
E.O. Wilson on why the human species ought to be a little humble
Correspondence on not-so-famous lost words
Lee leaps down the stage with co-star Kelli O’Hara in The King and I’s iconic polka, “Shall We Dance?”
Photograph by Paul Kolnik
An actor’s rule on stage and screen
Recent books with Harvard connections
Plaintiffs Pablo Girault, Armando Santacruz, and Juan Francisco Torres Landa show off the permits allowing them to grow and use marijuana.
Photograph by Alfredo Estrella/AFP/Getty Images
A new lead on stemming drug-related violence in Mexico
Candidates for Harvard Overseers and HAA directors