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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.
Jeannie Suk Gersen on the law, trauma, and “the rhetoric of believing”
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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
Bryant at work, captured in an undated photograph.
Image courtesy of the Museum of Comparative Zoology/Harvard University
Brief life of an underappreciated arachnologist
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Turning your al fresco space into a springtime oasis
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documentaries and feature films
“Shen Wei: Painting in Motion,” at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum
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A short list of fine
documentaries and feature films
In a new book, Louis Menand probes the cultural currents of postwar America.
At Houghton and Lamont libraries, a creative new entry into the Yard
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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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Letters on opioids, the Bauhaus, legacy admissions, and more
President Bacow on friendships formed among and between scholars and students
Students’ Top 10 list: it’s not academic
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A jar from the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Kongo culture, 1898 or earlierObject courtesy of the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology. Photograph courtesy of the Harvard Art Museums ©President and Fellows of Harvard College
Pliable arts from across the continent
Bibliophile behind the footlights: Harry Widener (front row, far left) acted in high school in an English version of a French farce.
Photograph courtesy of the Hill School Archives
Brief life of Harry Elkins Widener, theater-loving bibliophile: 1885-1912
After graduating from the College in 1861, Holmes obtained a commission as first lieutenant in the Twentieth Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry, known as the “Harvard Regiment.”
Photograph courtesy of the Harvard Law School Library, Historical & Special Collections
A new biography of Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. illuminates the Supreme Court during the centennial of his most momentous dissent.
Letters on opioids, the Bauhaus, legacy admissions, and more
President Bacow on friendships formed among and between scholars and students
Students’ Top 10 list: it’s not academic
Illustration by Dave Cutler
Corporate reports contain clues to predicting a firm’s future performance.
Garden in the Woods features the white spring ephemerals, such asTrillium grandiflorum, during Trillium Week (May 5-11).
Photograph courtesy of Native Plant Trust and Garden in the Woods/Photography by Dan Jaffe
Springtime at New England’s native-plant haven
Woman Running to Escape a Sudden Shower, c. 1765-70, by Suzuki Harunobu
Image courtesy of the Harvard Art Museums ©President and Fellows of Harvard College.
Harvard’s enticing Japanese woodblock prints
Red Rocks Conservation Area, in Gloucester, Massachusetts
Photograph by Vladislav Sevostianov
Rock climbing in Greater Boston—and beyond
Houghton Library’s redesigned exterior will feature a fully accessible entrance with ramped walkways.
Rendering courtesy of Ann Beha Architects
A renovation to make Houghton Library “open to all”
Allan Bakke’s admissions suit began four decades-plus of protests and litigation.
Photographs from Bettmann/Getty Images
Closing arguments in the admissions lawsuit, and affirmative action in broader context
Winthrop House tensions and government department concerns
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Source: Data from Office of Faculty Development & Diversity
A tenure track, resources for recruiting and retention, childcare, and more contribute to changes in the professoriate.
Transitions, appointments, and honors
A toehold for the arts in Allston
Photograph by Clare O’Keefe
ART to Allston and dual-degree decision
Timothy R. Barakett and Mariano-Florentino (Tino) Cuéllar
Photograph courtesy of Harvard Public Affairs and Communications
New Corporation members, renewing Adams House, and more University news
Howard Gardner and Wendy Fischman, now analyzing interviews from 10 campuses
Photograph courtesy of Howard Gardner
Howard Gardner and colleagues release a seven-year study of higher education in the twenty-first century.
After missing the first few games of the 2019 season with a concussion, Skinner has been among the Ivy League leaders in on-base percentage.
Photograph courtesy of Harvard Athletic Communications
For speedy center fielder Ben Skinner, slowing down is key.
Click arrow for full image: Kieran Tuntivate ’20, shoeless and in the lead
Photograph by Gavin Baker/Sideline Photos
7,700 meters of grit and pain
Jocelyn and Chris Arndt, siblings from Fort Plain, New York, balanced a full-time tour schedule and undergraduate life.
Photograph courtesy of Shore Fire Media
For two Harvard siblings, studying and songwriting went hand in hand.
Harper Lee
Photograph by Donald Uhrbrock/The LIFE Images Collection/Getty Images
Casey Cep’s debut book, on a murder trial and Harper Lee
National Women’s Party members picket the White House, 1917. In the years leading up to the Nineteenth Amendment’s passage, the protesters were a regular presence in Lafayette Square.
Photograph courtesy of the Library of Congress
Fresh portraits of U.S. foot soldiers for women’s right to vote
Modern psychiatrists revived the effort to link mental illness to biology, begun in the 1840s by scientists like Emil Kraepelin.
Photograph Wikipedia/Public Domain
A history of psychiatry’s troubled search for the biology of mental illness
Correspondence on not-so-famous lost words
Moffett—who has trekked across the globe in search of unusual creatures—with an ants’ nest in Australia
Photograph courtesy of Mark W. Moffett
Naturalist Mark W. Moffett investigates insects—and now, evolving human societies.
The official 2019 slates
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A jar from the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Kongo culture, 1898 or earlierObject courtesy of the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology. Photograph courtesy of the Harvard Art Museums ©President and Fellows of Harvard College
Pliable arts from across the continent