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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.
Photograph courtesy of Harvard Athletics Communications
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.
From the archives
Shelby Meyerhoff uses body paint and photography to transform herself into creatures and scenes from the natural world. Photograph: a blue-ringed octopus
Photograph courtesy of Shelby Meyerhoff
Shelby Meyerhoff’s liminal, liberating body painting
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Readers comment on Harvard and slavery, scientists and sex, final clubs, Seamus Heaney, and more
President Faust on Harvard Divinity School's bicentennial
How Harvard might better explain itself to faculty, friends, and the world at large
A distinctive Harvard Magazine voice remembered
Welcoming an accomplished new editorial colleague
Illustration by Adam Niklewicz
Making the case for charter schools and other choice options to boost educational performance
George Bucknam Dorr on the Beachcroft Path on Huguenot Head
Photograph courtesy of Friends of Acadia and the National Park Service and NPS/Archive
Brief life of a persistent conservationist: 1853-1944
As Jerry Mitrovica demonstrates, the weight of ice sheets in polar regions can actually flatten the earth’s rocky mantle, altering the speed of the planet’s rotation and changing sea levels.
Photograph by Jim Harrison
Connecting climate change to the planet’s shifting crust
Readers comment on Harvard and slavery, scientists and sex, final clubs, Seamus Heaney, and more
President Faust on Harvard Divinity School's bicentennial
How Harvard might better explain itself to faculty, friends, and the world at large
A distinctive Harvard Magazine voice remembered
Welcoming an accomplished new editorial colleague
Illustration by Wesley Bedrosian
Evolution shaped humans to rest—and to run only when absolutely necessary.
A 3-D printer “draws” a coiled antenna in the air. What allows the printer to work this way is a laser that hardens an “ink” of silver nanoparticles as they emerge from the nozzle.
Image courtesy of Mark Skylar-Scott
A new kind of 3-D printer forms wires in midair.
The Saugus Iron Works sits on a tidal basin about a 10-minute drive off Interstate 95.
Photograph courtesy of the National Park Service
The Saugus Iron Works highlights early U.S. industrial history
Workers flood the cranberry bog, then collect and bag the berries that float to the top.
Photograph by Andrew W. Griffith/A.D. Maekpeace Company
Learn how New England’s iconic berries are cultivated at this annual event.
Figureheads, like this 1970s reproduction, often adorned fire stations in the 1800s.
Photograph by Harvard Magazine/JC
Children and adults alike are drawn to this eclectic array of firefighting artifacts.
Assembling the Harvard Life Lab, on Western Avenue, at the edge of the Business School campus
Photograph by Jim Harrison
Harvard's sweeping building boom.
Michael Brenner
Photograph by Stu Rosner
Applied mathematician Michael Brenner on not knowing anything
An existing frame home begins its transformation into the new Winthrop House faculty dean’s residence.
Photograph by Jim Harrison
Three projects in, some physical and financial assessments
Douglas Elmendorf
Photograph by Stephanie Mitchell/Harvard Public Affairs and Communications
New HKS dean Douglas Elmendorf talks progressive policy and economics.
Advocate editors playing to the camera circa 1900-1910
Courtesy of Harvard University Archives
The Harvard Advocate turns 150.
Chao Center
Photograph by Jim Harrison
Chao Center, a Law School alumnus as vice-presidential nominee, sexual-assault lexicon, Gen Ed transition, and more
Photograph by Harvard Magazine/JB
Continuing challenges to undergraduate-admissions policies, and diversifying faculties
The magazine’s Berta Greenwald Ledecky Undergraduate Fellows for the 2016-2017 academic year will be Matthew Browne ’17 and Lily Scherlis ’18.
Photograph by Stu Rosner
The magazine's Ledecky Fellows provide an undergraduate perspective.
Could Science Prove There’s a God? (2014) is part of artist Judith Brodsky's ongoing series about science and philosophy, The Twenty Most Important Scientific Questions of the 21st Century.
Image courtesy of Judith Brodsky
From the beginning, artist and advocate Judith Brodsky felt “pulls in different directions.”
Composer Nicholas Britell has written scores for films including Moonlight, A Tale of Love and Darkness, and The Seventh Fire. He is also a pianist and producer (most recently of Whiplash, by Damien Chazelle ’07).
Courtesy of Nicholas Britell
A film composer's career, from annotating Sneakers to doing “archaeology” for 12 Years a Slave
Autumn harvest: a honeybee on Solidago gigantea (goldenrod)
Photograph by Helga R. Heilmann
Thomas D. Seeley on the craft and science of bee hunting
Joseph Finder at the Boston Athenaeum, a membership library. The private investigator hero of his Nick Heller series is also based in the city, where Finder lives with his family.
Photograph by Stu Rosner
Joseph Finder makes technology the texture of his new thriller, Guilty Minds.
Illustration by James Steinberg
A focused briefing on degree-attainment, democracy, and economic opportunity
Correspondence on not-so-famous lost words
Posing with a tool of the trade, Alcorn can revel in her job’s reflection of film noir.
Photograph by Jim Harrison
Boston-based private investigator Sarah Alcorn is “a bit of an oddball in this business.”
Martin J. Grasso Jr.
Photograph by Jim Harrison
President Martin J. Grasso boosts alumni volunteerism.
(From left) Annalee Perez ’17 and Brittany Wang ’17
Courtesy of the Harvard Alumni Association
The Aloian Memorial Scholars contribute to House life.
Harvard Alumni Association awards honor volunteer service to the University.