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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.
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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.
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Endowment taxes, final clubs, Chapter and Verse
President Drew Faust on Allston
Ideas from Harvard’s presidential search
Alain Locke in an undated photograph
Photograph courtesy of Moorland-Spingarn Research Center/Howard University
Rediscovering Alain Locke and the project of black self-realization
Boston Children’s Hospital physician-in-chief Mary Ellen Avery at work in the mid 1970s
Photograph copyright Georgia Litwack
Brief life of a groundbreaking neonatologist: 1927-2011
Endowment taxes, final clubs, Chapter and Verse
President Drew Faust on Allston
Ideas from Harvard’s presidential search
Illustration by Dan Page
Observations from Twitter prove that even the smallest news outlets can shape public opinion.
Illustration by Daniel Baxter
Research with infants suggests the ability to understand abstract relationships.
April’s Little Poland Festival
Courtesy of the Little Poland Festival, New Britain, Connecticut
New Britain’s “Little Poland” and museum of American art
A flyer Gorey illustrated for a 1952 Poets' Theatre performance.
Edward Gorey/ Announcement for The Poets’ Theatre performance in Fogg Museum Court, May, 1952/ Offset lithography on paper, 5 1/2 x 14 in./©The Edward Gorey Charitable Trust
Edward Gorey’s own art collection at the Wadsworth Atheneum
The new tax law boosts financial pressures.
The Corporation decides.
Allston development, advanced standing, Medical School monies
Photograph by Kris Snibbe/Harvard Public Affairs and Communications
Grad-student unionization, sexual assault, and more
Seth Towns ’20 is one of the team’s most versatile offensive threats.
Photograph by Eric Miller/Harvard Athletic Communications
A young men’s basketball team battles inconsistency.
Theresa McCulla in the archives center of the Smithsonian National Museum of American History
Photograph by T.J. Kirkpatrick
A historian tracks the craft-beer boom, and the evolution of American taste.
Nell Scovell
Photograph by Robert Trachtenberg
TV writer Nell Scovell looks back on Just the Funny Parts.
Silhouette by Joseph Cranston Jones from The Tree Named John by John B. Sale, The University of North Carolina Press, 1929
The power and legacy of African-American folktales
The Pursuit (1771-72), from Jean-Honoré Fragonard’s series The Pursuit of Love, designed for a chateau belonging to Mme. Du Barry, mistress of Louis XV
Painting from Bridgeman Art Library
Recent books with Harvard connections
Illustration by Peter Horvath
Steven Pinker’s Enlightenment Now defends science from modern-day foes.
Correspondence on not-so-famous lost words
Erica Walker
Photograph by Stu Rosner
Erica Walker aims to put “tools and data into the hands of people who can use it.”
A celebration of significant alumni and shared interest groups
The official 2018 slates