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Rapid COVID-19 tests, of the kind that Michael Mina has been advocating since last year, are finally approved for home use.
Harvard admits a record-low 3.4 percent of applicants
Bill Kristol discusses the future of the Republican Party and the survival of American constitutional democracy.
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A professor and a marketing professional have teamed up to raise awareness of the climate problem through the nonpartisan, nonprofit Potential Energy Coalition.
From the potentialenergycoalition.org website
A professor and a marketing professional try a new tack in climate-change communications.
Alumni scientist-filmmakers bring the Harvard Computers’ story to the screen.
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Harvard admits a record-low 3.4 percent of applicants
Cabot House members cheered up the wintry Quad with their hand-crafted ice lanterns.
Photograph courtesy of Cabot House faculty dean Ian Miller and resident dean Meg Lockwood.
Undergraduate Houses experiment and innovate in attempts to revive the effervescence that once characterized their student communities.
March 2018, Randolph Courtyard: The author (center) and her two future roommates, Sreya at left and Pranati at right, have just run over from the Yard on Housing Day, having learned they’d been assigned to Adams House.
Photograph courtesy of Meena Venkataramanan.
The College’s annual “Housing Day” dramas, conducted online.
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The annual election of Overseers and alumni association directors is under way.
Alumni scientist-filmmakers bring the Harvard Computers’ story to the screen.
A Harvard grandmother’s—and grandson’s—research
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Turning your al fresco space into a springtime oasis
A short list of fine
documentaries and feature films
“Shen Wei: Painting in Motion,” at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum
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March 2018, Randolph Courtyard: The author (center) and her two future roommates, Sreya at left and Pranati at right, have just run over from the Yard on Housing Day, having learned they’d been assigned to Adams House.
Photograph courtesy of Meena Venkataramanan.
The College’s annual “Housing Day” dramas, conducted online.
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Alumni scientist-filmmakers bring the Harvard Computers’ story to the screen.
A short list of fine
documentaries and feature films
In a new book, Louis Menand probes the cultural currents of postwar America.
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David Melly rounds Harvard Stadium. Running the loop counterclockwise, he acknowledges, is controversial.
Photograph by Molly Malone
A legendary route’s disputed distance
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From the archives
Elizabeth Hinton
Photograph by Stu Rosner
Historian Elizabeth Hinton probes the roots of a gathering crisis.
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Readers comment on linguistics and sign language, academic class gaps, “Fair Harvard,” final clubs, and more.
President Drew Faust on scientific research and federal funding
The administration’s potentially costly misunderstanding about science
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A 1948 record from Frederick C. Packard’s Harvard Vocarium label, T. S. Eliot: Reading His Own Poetry, on a turntable in a console designed by Alvar Aalto and engineer Jack L. Weisman.Objects courtesy of the Woodberry Poetry Room. Photographs by Stu Rosner
In the Woodberry Poetry Room, a landmark audio collection waits to be heard.
Blanche Ames
Photograph courtesy of the Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe Institute, Harvard University
Brief life of an intrepid botanical illustrator: 1878-1969
Andrew LeClerc in his home garden
Photograph by Stu Rosner
Harvard geneticists seek the biological basis for schizophrenia.
Readers comment on linguistics and sign language, academic class gaps, “Fair Harvard,” final clubs, and more.
President Drew Faust on scientific research and federal funding
The administration’s potentially costly misunderstanding about science
Illustration by Jungyeon Roh
Studying how a movement went from activist activity to aspirational lifestyle
Illustration by John Holcroft
Domestic outsourcing, not globalization, has redefined employer-employee ties.
Lone paddlers take in the sunset
Photograph courtesy of UMass Lowell Kayak Center
Paddling the Merrimack in Lowell and Lawrence
A summer exhibit at the deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum (above) highlights abstract art…
Photograph courtesy of the deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum
Lincoln offers rich history, nature trails, local food, and art.
Haiyang Zhao, LL.M. ’17, adjusts a rain poncho from the Law School.
Photograph by Jim Harrison
Harvard’s wet 366th Commencement proved the occasion for thoughtful conversations about social media, inclusion, and the political landscape.
The 2017 honorands
Mark Zuckerberg
Photograph by Jim Harrison
Words of wisdom from Joe Biden, Drew Faust, Mark Zuckerberg, student speakers, and more
Photograph by Jim Harrison
Regalia update, alumni who serve alma mater, family ties, notable guests, and more features from the festival rites
The status of a contested election
Click to see full graphic: An evolving, and increasingly tenured, professoriate emerges from these data published by the office of the senior vice provost for faculty development and diversity. “URM” means underrepresented minority. More data and details appear at faculty.harvard.edu.
Documenting a decade of gradual evolution in the professoriate
Scott A. Abell and Tracy P. Palandjian
Photographs courtesy of Scott A. Abell and Tracy P. Palandjian
New Board of Overseers leaders, top teachers, Pulitzer Prize winners, and more
The vexatious business of defining a gen-ed course in quantitative literacy
The College’s final-club sanctions: an update
Photograph by Stephanie Mitchell/Harvard Public Affairs and Communications
New Law School dean, new House leaders, Harvard’s top salaries, and more
From HarvardX to the classroom, Harvard Medical teaching online, and more
Jaunts to Nashville and Italy aside, Master of None stays, and is filmed, in New York City. On set in the subway, castmates Lena Waithe (left) and James Ciccone confer with co-creators Aziz Ansari and Yang.
Photograph by KC Bailey/Universal Television/NBCU Photo Bank via Getty Images
Alan Yang serves up warm, epicurean comedy.
Tahmima Anam
Photograph courtesy of Tahmima Anam
Tahmima Anam’s Bengal trilogy finds a resting place.
Where the coastal “professional-managerial elite” are not: view of a closed coal facility from Green Mount Cemetery, Waynesburg, Pennsylvania
Photograph by Brendan Smialowski/AFP/Getty Images
A review of Joan Williams’s powerful book on the resentments reshaping American politics
Children’s grotto cave at the Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center, Austin, Texas
Images from The Magic of Children’s Gardens: Inspiring Through Creative Design, by Lolly Tai. Used by permission of Temple University Press. © 2017 by Temple University. All Rights Reserved.
Beach reading, the West, segregation, gardening with children, and more
Correspondence on not-so-famous lost words
Debbie Bial
Photograph by Robert Adam Mayer
Harvard alumna Debbie Bial's Posse Foundation and a “new national leadership pipeline”
Graduate School of Arts and Sciences honorees (from left) Russell A. Mittermeier, Sarah P. Morris, Thomas F. Pettigrew, and Richard Sennett
Photograph by Tony Rinaldo/Courtesy of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences
Honorands whose contributions to society emerged from graduate study
Honorees include an architect, athletics enthusiast, and longtime University administrator.