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The actor and filmmaker will be Harvard’s guest speaker on May 25.
Nancy Hopkins (center) stands with Salvador Luria (left) and David Baltimore at the MIT Cancer Center in the 1980s.
Photograph courtesy of MIT Museum
New book on Nancy Hopkins speaks to women's fight for equality then—and their fight now
The human rights advocate co-founded Partners In Health in 1987.
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Horsemanship appears to have played a key role in the spread of the Yamnaya people.
Photograph by istock and altered by Jennifer Carling/Harvard Magazine
New evidence on domestication of horses—and the spread of an ancient Eurasian culture
The Salata Institute has chosen five teams to pursue solutions to a variety of climate-change impacts.
Logo courtesy of Salata Institute; solar panel photograph by Unsplash
Teams of Harvard researchers will develop concrete proposals for addressing specific climate impacts.
As the ranks of the elderly swell, there are too few housing options for seniors who want to “age in place.”
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Brief life of a Harvard-educated Buddhist scholar: 1854-1899
Alexandra Petri introduces the poet to tech support for help with her keyboard.
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Spring is the perfect time to touch up your property
A glimpse of the shops and restaurants across from the town green
Photograph by Stan Tess/Alamy Stock Photo
Visiting America’s first formal law school
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Pursuing their individual brands, colleges neglect the needs of higher education.
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Spanning more than 50 years, the conceptual artist’s work explores race, class, gender, and identity.
Patricia and Edmund Michael Frederick have been collecting and restoring historical pianos since the 1970s.
Photograph by Jim Harrison
An instrument restorer’s beautiful obsession
A new novel from foreign correspondent Wendell Steavenson
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Harmoni Turner '25 had 21 points, 13 assists, and 10 rebounds, making her just the sixth player in Ivy League history to earn a triple-double.
Photograph courtesy of Harvard Athletics
Women’s basketball demolishes Towson in the first round of the WNIT.
Chris Ledlum makes a breakaway dunk after stealing the ball during a game last November against Loyola Chicago.
Photograph by Gil Talbot/Harvard Athletics
Chris Ledlum ’23 makes his mark on the hardcourt.
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Brief life of a Harvard-educated Buddhist scholar: 1854-1899
Cornhole at HBS, prayer and meditation at SEAS, minerologist’s meter, eclipse aficionado
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David Garza on the roof of Henry Street Settlement’s youth-services building, with public housing and St. Augustine’s Episcopal Church beyond
Photograph by Robert Adam Mayer
At Henry Street Settlement, David Garza ’86 is not locking anyone out.
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Letters on Justice Holmes, another shoeless feat, athletic admissions, and more
An admissions scandal further damages the reputation of selective institutions of higher education.
Jack Szostak, in his lab at Massachusetts General Hospital, holds a model of a nucleic acid.
Photograph by Jim Harrison
Jack Szostak’s pursuit of the biggest questions on Earth
Ellen N. La Motte as a young woman
Courtesy of the Alan Mason Chesney Medical Archives of the Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions
Brief life of a bold activist: 1873-1961
Dani Rodrik
Photograph by Stu Rosner
Dani Rodrik’s views on trade, development, and democracy enter the mainstream.
Letters on Justice Holmes, another shoeless feat, athletic admissions, and more
An admissions scandal further damages the reputation of selective institutions of higher education.
A European roe deer caught by researchers’ cameras
Image courtesy of Nathan Ranc
Ecologists aim to understand how deer form their home ranges.
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(1 of 6) W.E.C. Eustis’s library, with its bay window overlooking the locust alléePhotograph by Eric Roth/Courtesy of Historic New England
Historic New England’s Eustis Estate
Community-focused jazz concerts in the Seaport
Photograph courtesy of the Boston Jazz Festival
The Boston Jazz Fest offers local and international artists.
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(1 of 9) Bright-red clackers helped public-health degree candidates promote hand-washing.Photograph by Jim Harrison
At the 368th Commencement, sober talk about the times—and life lessons from a cohort of powerful women
The honorands of 2019
President Bacow’s first baccalaureate
Photograph by Kris Snibbe/HPAC
Commencement remarks on character and conduct by President Lawrence S. Bacow, Chancellor Angela Merkel, Teju Cole, and more
President Bacow’s lighter, and personal, side during Commencement week
Davóne Tines
Photograph by Jim Harrison
Short takes from Commencement, from a stirring “Lift Every Voice and Sing” and powerful reunion moments to Mme. Caller and a neglected feline would-be honorand
HUDS leadership meets with Red’s Best CEO Jared Auerbach in the organization’s headquarters on Boston Fish Pier. From left to right: David Davidson (HUDS managing director), Bruce Calvert (director for residential dining operations), Martin Breslin (director for culinary operations), Jared Auerbach, Crista Martin (HUDS director for strategic initiatives and communications), and Akeisha Hayde (executive chef for residential dining)
Photograph by Jim Harrison
Dining…and learning
Faculty Dean denouement, Domínguez disinvitation, fencing issues, and updates on undergraduate education and public service
Teaching stars, new academicians, a memorable May Day, and more
Sarah Whiting
Photograph by Tommy LaVergne/Rice University
A new Design dean, disruptive divestment activism, Radcliffe fellows, and more
Dance theater company ANIKAYA’s The Conference of the Birds explores movement, self-knowledge, and human interdependence.
Photograph by Gary Alpert
Choreographer Wendy Jehlen’s “dance diplomacy”
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Pablo Picasso’s Les Demoiselles d’Avignon, 1907
©2019 Estate of Pablo Picasso/Artist Rights Society (ARS), New York. Image from the Bridgeman Art Library
A Harvard scholar presents the “untold origins of a modern masterpiece.”
The master architects: Hall for Worship of the Ancestors, Beijing, early fifteenth century with many later repairs
Photograph by Nancy Shatzman Steinhardt
Recent books with Harvard connections
Chinese refugees stream through the wrecked streets of Chongqing, heavily bombed by the Japanese from 1938 to 1943 during the Second Sino-Japanese War.
Photograph from Central Press/Getty Images
The parallel, perilous, histories of China and Japan
Correspondence on not-so-famous lost words
Truman French and Tucker Pforzheimer amid stacks of prime shiitake-growing oak logs at their Martha’s Vineyard farm
Photograph by Randi Baird Photography
The farmers at MV Mycological hope so.
From left: Teresita Alvarez-Bjelland, Dan H. Fenn Jr., Tamara Elliott Rogers
Photographs from left by: Jim Harrison; Kris Snibbe/HPAC; Jim Harrsion
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