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The co-director of the quantum science and engineering initiative receives Harvard's highest faculty honor.
The actor and filmmaker will be Harvard’s guest speaker on May 25.
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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
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Readers respond to articles on eugenics, the Overseers’ election, the Law School shield, and more.
President Faust writes about the Harvard Teacher Fellows
Illustration by Sam Falconer
Most people’s jobs are at risk of becoming robotized, argues labor economist Richard Freeman.
Danielle Allen
Photograph by Jim Harrison
Danielle Allen’s mission to return equality to the heart of American democracy
While on active duty in the Mediterranean Theater in 1944, Dr. Lyons (at left) received the Legion of Merit for exceptionally meritorious conduct in the performance of outstanding services and achievements.
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Brief life of an innovative surgeon: 1907-1965
Flaminia Catteruccia, shown here in the insectary at Harvard’s school of public health, is plumbing the mysteries of mosquito sex.
Photograph by Stu Rosner.
A technique for pushing genetic alterations through entire species of plants and animals may herald a future in which humans manage ecosystems through molecular biology.
Harvard's opportunity for strategic planning
Readers respond to articles on eugenics, the Overseers’ election, the Law School shield, and more.
President Faust writes about the Harvard Teacher Fellows
Illustration by Adam Niklewicz
Economist Claudia Goldin investigates what causes the gender wage gap, and what doesn't.
Illustration by Jude Buffum
Avoid refined sugars and processed carbohydrates, says endocrinologist David Ludwig.
Gardens soften the stark look of the Colonial-era House of the Seven Gables
Photograph courtesy of Frank C. Grace, Trig Photography
Nathaniel Hawthorne's Salem muse was preserved by philanthropist Caroline Emmerton.
Gracie, about a grandson and his ailing grandmother, is playing the 2016 Roxbury International Film Festival (at the Museum of Fine Arts)
Courtesy of the Roxbury International Film Festival
Independent films by and about people of color
The Addison Gallery’s staid façade
Images courtesy of the Addison Gallery of American Art at Phillips Academy
A day trip to Andover: Addison Gallery of American Art, gardens, and hikes
Dance director and senior lecturer Jill Johnson leading Music 12, “The Harvard Dance Project”
Photograph by Stu Rosner
A concentration “400 years in the making,” and two semesters old
Ethan Lasser
Photograph by Jim Harrison
A Harvard Art Museums curator on how artworks talk to one another, and to us
David Malan
Photograph by Rose Lincoln/Harvard Public Affairs and Communications
Harvard’s popular CS50 is being adapted for a new AP course.
A new dean for public health, a new director for the art museums, and more
Free Harvard/Fair Harvard and the Coalition for a Diverse Harvard square off in the Board of Overseers election.
Merrick B. Garland
Photograph by Rex Features/Associated Press
A Supreme Court nominee, Spielberg at Commencement, the class of 2020, and more
Action against sexual assault, the Law School drops its shield, “Faculty Deans” now lead the Houses, and more
Desmond Green ’17, Peryn Reeves-Darby ’18, Lethu Ntshinga ’18 (obscured), Genesis De Los Santos ’19, Angelica Chima ’19, Caleb Lewis ’17, and Jonathan Sands ’17 in rehearsal for Black Magic, a student-written and -directed show on the Loeb mainstage
Photograph by Stu Rosner
The Undergraduate looks at 1969 and Reclaim HLS
Metal Painting, 2015
Photographs by Etienne Frossard
Ellen Harvey's installations offer "complicated gifts" to the viewer.
President Obama welcomes the crown prince of Abu Dhabi. But U.S. politics can pressure a president to use military, rather than diplomatic, foreign-policy tools.
Photograph by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images
Political scientists demystify unseen institutional tensions.
Hopkinson Smith playing the German theorbo built for him by Joel van Lennep
Photograph by Philippe Gontier/Courtesy of Hopkinson Smith
A lutenist pursues what he calls his “lifelong task.”
Correspondence on not-so-famous lost words
Photograph 152, from Agoston’s untitled series
Photographs by Anna Agoston
Artist Anna Agoston grows into her medium with her photographic studies of plants.
Sylvester Turner
Photograph by Aaron M. Sprecher/Bloomberg via Getty Images
Houston’s new mayor, HLS alumnus Sylvester Turner, promises a “transformative” tenure.
Candidates for Harvard Overseers and HAA elected directors