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A screen shot from the closing moments of the 2020 virtual degree-granting ceremony (a technologically enabled singing of “Fair Harvard”)—an exercise now being replicated in some form for a second consecutive pandemic spring
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The 370th degree-conferral will be online for the second consecutive year—with Ruth Simmons as guest speaker.
Kate Murtagh, chief compliance officer and managing director of sustainable investing at Harvard Management Company
Photograph by Stephanie Mitchell, Harvard University.
Harvard Management Company issues its first report on the “net-zero” greenhouse-gas emissions goal.
As expected, the anti-affirmative-action advocate appeals after losing in lower court rounds.
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A Harvard grandmother’s—and grandson’s—research
Harvard development partner Tishman Speyer’s proposed massing and configuration of buildings for the first phase of construction on the Enterprise Research Campus in Allston.
From Tishman Speyer's Project Notification Form filing.
Tishman Speyer details the first phase of the “enterprise research campus”—and points to a doubling of the project’s ultimate size.
In a new book, Louis Menand probes the cultural currents of postwar America.
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A Harvard grandmother’s—and grandson’s—research
The Undergraduate balances childhood and maturity.
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A Harvard grandmother’s—and grandson’s—research
Documentarian Lance Oppenheim explores life in The Villages.
Radhika Jones at the helm of Vanity Fair
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Turning your al fresco space into a springtime oasis
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Greater Boston’s small cinemas strive to engage film-goers during the pandemic.
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Fiction about “the power that comes to us when we uncloset ourselves”
Documentarian Lance Oppenheim explores life in The Villages.
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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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3-D-printing pioneer Jennifer Lewis aims to fabricate replacement organs.
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President Bacow looks ahead to his new freshman year.
Making the most of Harvard’s “ultimate option”
Lawrence S. Bacow and Adele Fleet Bacow, shortly before the February 11 announcement that he would become president.
Photograph by Kai-Jae Wang/©President and Fellows of Harvard College
Lawrence S. Bacow, a career educator, is schooled in making decisions.
Davis relaxing in 1910 at Devil’s Thumb, on the Continental Divide near Corona, Colorado
Photograph courtesy of the Houghton Library
Brief life of William Morris Davis, pioneering geomorphologist
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President Bacow looks ahead to his new freshman year.
Making the most of Harvard’s “ultimate option”
Illustration by Sam Falconer
New research on extinctions shows that their ecological impact can’t be measured in numbers of species lost.
Autumnal mist over Spot Pond
Photograph by Mike Ryan
Just north of Boston, a wild park is filled with forests, lakes, and rocky hills.
Every human-powered vehicle must stand the test of traveling on asphalt, through mud, and into the Merrimack River.
Photograph by Lucinana Calvin/Courtesy of the Lowell Kinetic Sculpture Race
Watch human-powered machines prevail—or not—in Lowell.
Diners, bar-loungers, and chefs share one big room at Comedor.
Photograph courtesy of Comedor
An intimate place for Chilean-American food in Newton
Photograph by Rose Lincoln/Harvard Public Affairs and Communications
With greetings to the community, and a major faculty appointment, new Harvard president Lawrence S. Bacow sets to work.
New filings in a lawsuit against Harvard over admissions allege discrimination against Asian-Americans.
Durba Mitra
Photograph courtesy of Durba Mitra
Harvard’s first professor appointed solely in gender studies
“Connections” and “Transformations” are both organized around frequent critique sessions,…
Image courtesy of Megan Panzano
Design courses enlarge the College curriculum.
A Medical School real-estate deal, and a busy post-presidency for Drew Faust
Students at the Graduate School of Design created the lion’s share of posters used by student activists in 1969.
Poster courtesy of the Harvard University Archives
An exhibit on Harvard in 1969 opens at Pusey Library this fall.
Photograph by Stephanie Mitchell/Harvard Public Affairs and Communications
New FAS dean, biomedical momentum, and more University news
At Harvard African Students Association’s Africa Night (from left): Tom Osborn ’20 of Kenya; Joshua Benjamin ’21, of Phoenix, Arizona (whose ancestors are Angolan but were first brought to Charleston, South Carolina, in the late seventeenth century); Tawanda Mulalu ’20 of Botswana; and Mfundo Radebe ’20 of South Africa
Photograph by Christabel Narh
The Undergraduate looks at Harvard through an African filter.
Isa Flores-Jones and Catherine Zhang
Photographs courtesy of the subjects
The Ledecky Fellows provide an undergraduate perspective on life at Harvard.
Arguably the Ivy League’s most dangerous offensive weapon, the Crimson’s return man and wideout Justice Shelton-Mosley ‘19 is a threat to score every time he touches the ball.
Photograph by Gil Talbot/Courtesy of Harvard Athletic Communications
Justice Shelton-Mosley needs only the tiniest bit of space to go the distance.
Nell Painter, a professor emerita of American history at Princeton, now works as an artist in Newark, New Jersey.
Photograph by John Emerson
Nell Painter reflects on leaving the ivory tower for art school at age 64.
Sharmila Sen
Photograph courtesy of Sharmila Sen
A “first-gen” American explores race and assimilation in the United States.
Laura van den Berg
Photograph by Paul Yoon
In Laura van den Berg’s fiction, the deeply strange is ordinary.
Illustration by Phil Foster
Jill Lepore excavates the history of America, down to its bedrock values.
Gerald López on a pedestrian bridge two blocks from his childhood home in East Los Angeles. For him, rebellious lawyering is not just a legal theory, but a way of being.
Photograph by Coral von Zumwalt
Gerald López’s radical theory—and practice