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Royall House and Slave Quarters in Medford, Massachusetts
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Medford museum spotlights the historic link between wealth and human bondage.
Senator Elizabeth Warren emphasized that workers are making important wins, but corporations are still union busting.
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New Harvard Law center focuses on unionization and equitable labor law
The honorees will visit Cambridge next week for a parade, a show, and a (loving) roast.
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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.
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What fossil fuel interests knew about climate change, and when
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The 2023 nominees detail their experiences and view of Harvard’s challenges and prospects.
Loeb House, where the University’s governing boards convene
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Candidates for the Board of Overseers and Harvard Alumni Association elected directors are announced.
Edwin Bancroft Henderson and the history behind the Harvard-Howard game
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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.
From the archives
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“Fine-tuning” an ancient practice to heal, not harm
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Letters on care after the ICU, artificial intelligence, belonging, and more
President Bacow on Harvard and excellence
Wanted: Big ideas from the humanities
At Brigham and Women’s Hospital, physician Scott Weiner has worked to improve emergency-room guidelines for issuing opioid prescriptions.
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Medicine’s response to America’s largest public-health crisis
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(1 of 9) Typography instructor Herbert Bayer’s design for a cinema (c. 1924-1925) is a stark contrast to the elaborate theaters of the 1920s.
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Exploring the Bauhaus and Harvard
Samuel Stouffer
Photograph courtesy of Ann Stouffer Bisconti ’62.
Brief life of Samuel Stouffer, survey researcher: 1900-1960
Letters on care after the ICU, artificial intelligence, belonging, and more
President Bacow on Harvard and excellence
Wanted: Big ideas from the humanities
Illustration by Rocco Baviera
Advances in editing DNA propel consideration of the technology’s use in humans.
Last year, ArtWeek featured “art in the dark” projections on Boston Common.
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ArtWeek 2019 offers hundreds of events around Massachusetts.
Pianist Angela Hewitt
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Free spring concerts hosted by Harvard’s music department
Semma Therapeutics CEO Bastiano Sanna with Xander University Professor Douglas Melton, scientific founder of the startup. The company is working to commercialize a diabetes therapy.
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Robust licensing revenue and corporate alliances boost translational research.
Amy Wagers
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The skydiving Forst Family professor studies the pathophysiology of aging.
Harvard College Gen Ed curriculum nears, and faculty members rethink course registration.
Anthony Abraham Jack
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Anthony Jack’s new book on the “doubly disadvantaged”
Angela Merkel
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Merkel at Commencement, University Professor Faust, Arts First honorand Tracy K. Smith, and more University news
Since 2016, says showrunner David Mandel, shown here with Veep stars Julia Louis-Dreyfus and Tony Hale (below), it has become increasingly difficult for the show to outrun reality.
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Showrunner David Mandel guides the final season of Veep—and finds himself politicized.
The multitalented Edward Gorey in September 1977, on the distinctive set he designed for the Broadway production of Dracula—for which he won a Tony Award for best costume design
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An idiosyncratic new biography of Edward Gorey
California dreamin’: an 1883 poster extolling land, climate, and the virtues of immigration
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Recent books with Harvard connections
Correspondence on not-so-famous lost words
David Garza on the roof of Henry Street Settlement’s youth-services building, with public housing and St. Augustine’s Episcopal Church beyond
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At Henry Street Settlement, David Garza ’86 is not locking anyone out.
A celebration of notable alumni and shared interest groups
The official 2019 slates