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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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Spring is the perfect time to touch up your property
A glimpse of the shops and restaurants across from the town green
Photograph by Stan Tess/Alamy Stock Photo
Visiting America’s first formal law school
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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.
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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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Re-engaging with nature alongside the director of the Arnold Arboretum
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Readers comment on training teachers, global health, climate change, and more
President Faust on Harvard athletes’ international outreach
Tuition income—and what the College can and ought to charge
Celebrating distinguished authors and artists
<p class="caption"> A poster invites citizens to protect protesters from attacks at Maidan Nezalezhnosti, or Independence Square, in Kiev during the 2013-2014 Euromaidan protests.</p>
<p class="credit">Image courtesy of the Ukrainian Research Institute Reference Library</p>
One of the largest Ukrainian-language collections in the world, housed at Harvard
<p class="caption">A serpentine proximal tubule (light pink) snakes through the center of a multi-layer network of blood vessels (hot pink), all created using a 3-D printer.</p>
<p class="credit">Image from Scientific Reports</p>
3-D-printing pioneer Jennifer Lewis aims to fabricate replacement organs.
SKALA SIKAMINEAS, LESBOS, GREECE
Refugees from Syria rest on the coast of the Greek island of Lesbos. Thousands of refugees cross the Aegean Sea from Turkey in rubber boats every day, fleeing conflicts in Syria, Iraq, and Afghanistan.
A Syrian refugee who came to Lesbos that week by one of many boats told me his new life had just started. “New life as a human being,” he added.
I hope he will not question this emotional sentence on the long way to a new home even though there are signs from the first seconds of their arrival that the refugees didn’t land in a paradise.
Every boat that comes to the island is greeted by two groups. There are dedicated volunteers who work in shifts during day and night to help refugees in their first hours in Europe—and then there are also groups of “engine hunters,” as they are called here. Very often they come first. They only care for the boat. The engines are removed before the last person is taken care of. Business is business.
It was a long week full of almost surreal scenes…
Photograph by Maciek Nabrdalik
A Nieman Fellow documents the perilous passage of refugees fleeing war to seek safety in Europe.
Williamina Fleming
Portrait courtesy of Special Collections, Fine Arts Library/Harvard University
Brief life of a spectrographic pioneer: 1857-1911
<p class="caption">Deidre Lynch in her book-lined Barker Center office</p>
<p class="credit">Photograph by Stu Rosner</p>
Deidre Lynch on the cult of Jane Austen and the complexities of loving literature
Readers comment on training teachers, global health, climate change, and more
President Faust on Harvard athletes’ international outreach
Tuition income—and what the College can and ought to charge
Celebrating distinguished authors and artists
<p class="credit">Illustration by Ken Orvidas</p>
Harvard’s Crowd Innovation Lab studies what motivates crowds to solve problems.
Asim Khwaja’s experiments in taxation aim to buttress the legitimacy of government in developing nations.
Photograph by Jim Harrison
Paying Pakistani tax collectors for better performance to increase tax revenue
The screening of Kent Garrett’s Black GI
Photograph by Jim Harrison
Hidden gem: the Harvard Film Archive
<p class="credit">Photograph by Stu Rosner</p>
Night Song soothes the soul at First Church in Cambridge.
<p class="credit">Photograph by Susan Young Photography</p>
Harvard's three-legged encouragement of entrepreneurship
The annual financial report celebrates current strengths, but cautions about a coming revenue squeeze.
<p class="credit">Photograph by Stu Rosner</p>
Harvard’s chief sustainability officer on scaling up green solutions while scaling back its environmental footprint
<p class="caption">Picketing and strike signs appeared on campus for the first time this millennium as dining-hall workers sought a new contract.</p>
<p class="credit">Courtesy of UNITE HERE Local 26</p>
A strike, negotiations, and a vote on wages, benefits, and union recognition
A 30 percent reduction in greenhouse-gas emissions is achieved; a 2050 goal appears more challenging.
<p class="credit">Photograph by Kris Snibbe/Harvard Public Affairs and Communications</p>
Nobel honorands, a new University Professor, the Honor Code, and more
<p class="caption">From left: Michael Balboni, Tyler J. VanderWeele, and Tracy A. Balboni</p>
<p class="credit">Photograph by Stu Rosner</p>
A Harvard initiative studies how spirituality affects patients’ experience at the end of life
Harvard’s congressional contingent gains five new members.
<p class="caption">Frustrated in regulation by Princeton defenders such as Luke Catarius, Harvard’s quarterback Joe Viviano prevailed in overtime, diving for a one-yard touchdown that gave the Crimson a 23-20 victory.</p>
<p class="credit">Matthew Deshaw/The Harvard Crimson</p>
After living on the edge, the football team confronts a shocking season-ending upset.
<p class="caption">The title character of <i>Madame White Snake</i> and her companion, in the opera's prologue</p>
<p class="credit">Photograph by James Daniel/Courtesy of Beth Morrison Projects</p>
In the “final phase” of her life, Cerise Lim Jacobs builds herself an oeuvre.
Clint Smith
Photograph courtesy of Clint Smith
“It doesn’t even make sense to me that art and protest would be separate.”
<p class="caption">The Classical Theatre of Harlem premiered <i>Fit for a Queen,</i> Shamieh's most recent play, in October.
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<p class="credit">Photograph by Leland Durond Thompson</p>
A playwright making those overlooked by history into lore
<p class="caption">A contemporary rendering of the Springfield arsenal attack during Shays’s Rebellion—a shaping event for the Founders</p>
<p class="credit">Image from Bridgeman Images</p>
The anti-democratic origins of the Constitution
Correspondence on not-so-famous lost words
<p class="caption"> A poster invites citizens to protect protesters from attacks at Maidan Nezalezhnosti, or Independence Square, in Kiev during the 2013-2014 Euromaidan protests.</p>
<p class="credit">Image courtesy of the Ukrainian Research Institute Reference Library</p>
One of the largest Ukrainian-language collections in the world, housed at Harvard