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Understanding “low response to training”—and searching for solutions for diabetics and others
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Ten percent of MBA students to receive full tuition scholarships
The Supreme Court will hear arguments this fall.
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Kevin Kallaugher on the art of editorial cartooning
A lifelong struggle with body image led Juna Gjata to podcasting.
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The commercial "enterprise research campus" will begin rising on the gray parcel at the center, above—but Harvard's broader strategy is not widley known.
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The Corporation’s role in communicating University strategies—and the magazine’s 125th
The extraordinary promise of Harvard’s libraries
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Exhibit at Vermont's Shelburne Museum offers beauty and vitality
esperanza spalding performs at the 2018 New York Live Arts Gala, sporting her signature “Life Force” outfit.
Photograph by Noam Galai/Getty Images
The musician and "songwright" invites the listener in
Kevin Kallaugher on the art of editorial cartooning
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Parry in Paris circa 1925-1928
Photograph courtesy of the Milman Parry Collection of Oral Literature, Harvard University.
Brief life of a Homeric scholar with a big idea: 1902-1935
From the archives
Illustration by Mark Steele
The “yeasty” times” when computer research grew at Harvard
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Readers comment on charter schools, final clubs, the doubly disadvantaged, veterans’ memories
President Faust on Harvard’s changing campus
When it pays to rethink a policy
Quan Le ’15 guides a biology lesson.
Photograph by Jill Anderson/Harvard Graduate School of Education
Harvard gets serious about training its graduates to teach in the classroom.
This portrait of Edward Holyoke, Harvard’s ninth president, painted ca. 1759-1761, was Copley’s first commission from the College.
Harvard University Portrait Collection (H6); photograph by Harvard Art Museums Imaging Department/©President and Fellows of Harvard College
When the College commissioned Copley
Illustration by Wesley Bedrosian
Harvesting innovations from around the world to improve American medical care
The poet as French legionnaire in 1916
Photograph: HUD 3567.219.2 no. 296, Harvard University Archives
Brief live of a premonitory poet: 1888-1916
Readers comment on charter schools, final clubs, the doubly disadvantaged, veterans’ memories
President Faust on Harvard’s changing campus
When it pays to rethink a policy
In the past, Moby-Dick marathon-readers gathered, fittingly, beneath whale bones to enjoy the epic tale.
Photograph courtesy of the New Bedford Whaling Museum
Herman Melville’s epic is “brought to life” in New Bedford, Massachusetts.
The Blue Hills Reservation offers treks, along with cross-country and downhill skiing.
Photograph by Lorna Ruby
Appalachian Mountain Club’s winter hiking in the Blue Hills
Winthrop House is being renovated and enlarged.
Photograph by kris snibbe/hpac
Affording House renewal
Photograph by Jim Harrison
Cultural historian Matthew Wittmann makes a home at Harvard's performing-arts library.
MOOC technology in classroom use, for degrees, and more
Portrait of John Adams by Benjamin Blyth, ca. 1766
Courtesy of the Collection of the Massachusetts Historical Society
What he learned and what he made of it
Laura Levis
Photograph courtesy of Harvard Public Affairs and Communications
The untimely death of a former colleague
George Q. Daley
Photograph by Stephanie Mitchell/Harvard Public Affairs and Communications
Medical School dean, humanities and sciences honorands, and an app for thriving at Harvard
New quarterback Joe Viviano ’17 unfurled passes with force and finesse, even as defenses had to account for his dangerous running ability. Photograph courtesy of Harvard Athletic Communications
Photograph courtesy of Harvard Athletic Communications
A successful beginning of the football season
Kathy Delaney-Smith, the winningest coach in Ivy League basketball
Photograph by Stu Rosner
Basketball coach Kathy Delaney-Smith lives up to, and inspires, with her motto.
Working on his 2012 short film, Reckart hangs a puppet upside down from the set’s ceiling. “Head over Heels” took a 40-member crew some 15 months to make.
Photograph courtesy of Timothy Reckart
The director of Head Over Heels and The Star, on animation's different dimensions
The Fight Between Carnival and Lent (1559), by Pieter Bruegel the Elder
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Crowd painting that attracts crowds.
In 2012, Ken Liu’s short story “The Paper Menagerie” swept science fiction’s highest honors: the Hugo, Nebula, and World Fantasy Awards. He has won the Hugo as well for his translations of Cixin Liu’s The Three-Body Problem (the first translated novel to win), and Hao Jingfang’s short story “Folding Beijing.”
Photograph by Lisa Tang Liu
Ken Liu’s hybrid fiction crosses oceans and galaxies.
James Kloppenberg conveys the evolution of democracy from early theorists through Tocqueville’s celebration, written some years before this beatific electoral scene, The Verdict of the People (1854-55), by George Caleb Bingham.
Image from the Bridgeman Art Library
Reviewing a masterwork on the past, and future, of democracy
Correspondence on not-so-famous lost words
Turntables, headphones, a mixer, and his eclectic music collection prevail in Jace Clayton’s home “office.”
Photograph by Robert Adam Mayer; styling by Prellezo
In Uproot, Jace Clayton ’97 explores technological trends in music around the globe.
Plans to overhaul the Board of Overseers’ election procedures
Seven alumni are honored for volunteer College admissions work.