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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.
From the archives
Shelby Meyerhoff uses body paint and photography to transform herself into creatures and scenes from the natural world. Photograph: a blue-ringed octopus
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Shelby Meyerhoff’s liminal, liberating body painting
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Letters on Angela Davis, the Bureau of Study Counsel, climate change, and more
President Bacow describes the potential for Harvard’s new Allston campus to benefit both gown and town.
Articulating a vision for Crimson athletes—and fellow students
Sarah Richardson
Photograph by Stu Rosner
Historian and philosopher Sarah Richardson interrogates the science of sex and gender.
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At a gathering, circa 1920, of members of the Liberty League, Trotter sits in the first row (fifth from right).Photograph courtesy of Columbia University Library
Brief life of a black radical: 1872-1934
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(1 of 12) Adál Maldonado’s The Passport, 1995, from the series The Spirit Republic of Puerto Rico.Transfer from the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies, Harvard University, Gift of the artist, 2012.178. © ADзL. Image courtesy of Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum
The ubiquity of movement across man-made borders
Letters on Angela Davis, the Bureau of Study Counsel, climate change, and more
President Bacow describes the potential for Harvard’s new Allston campus to benefit both gown and town.
Articulating a vision for Crimson athletes—and fellow students
Illustration by Jason Blower
Education policy should focus on schools as a whole, not individual teachers, argues Susan Moore Johnson.
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(1 of 7) Sheila Jordan performs with the Yoko Miwa Trio at The Mad Monkfish, in Cambridge.Photograph by Janice Tsai
A look at the live-music scene: traditional trios to experimental student performers
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Russian ballerina Lubov Tchernicheva, 1920 production of Cleopatra
Russian ballerina Lubov Tchernicheva in Cleopatra, 1920. © E.O. Hoppé Estate Collection/Curatorial Assistance Inc.
Elegant photographs of dancing’s stars
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(1 of 3) “God’s Trombones, Harlem,” 2009
Photograph by Frank Stewart/Courtesy of the Cooper Gallery of African and African American Art
“The Sound of My Soul: Frank Stewart’s Life in Jazz,” at Harvard
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(1of 6) A vibrant nightclub scene at La FábricaPhotograph by Isabel Lopez/Courtesy of La Fábrica
La Fábrica’s Latin-Caribbean flair
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(1 of 7) Bow Street’s festive courtyard lit up at night.Photograph by Emily Tirella/Courtesy of Bow Market
Somerville’s Bow Market makes its mark.
President Lawrence S. Bacow at Morning Prayers
Photograph by Rose Lincoln/Harvard Public Affairs and Communications
Opening-days messages focus on free speech and civil discourse within Harvard.
The College’s admissions office does not discriminate against Asian-Americans, a federal judge ruled on October 1.
A spirited moment for the women’s lacrosse players. Harvard athletics plays an important role in the lives of the nearly one-fifth of undergraduates participating in intercollegiate sports.
Photograph courtesy of Harvard Athletic Communications
Tackling harassment, athletics, and barriers to international scholars and students
Giang T. Nguyen
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New HUHS director, public-service pair, social-club-sanctions lawsuit, and more
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(1 of 4) Harrison Greenbaum’s What Just Happened? combines his two creative obsessions: comedy and magic.Photograph by Todd Seidenberg
For Harrison Greenbaum, it began with “Pick a card….”
Close to home: Jimmy Hoffa (foreground) and Chuckie O’Brien near the federal courthouse, March 1, 1964, after Hoffa’s trial for jury-tampering
Photograph by Robert W. Kelley/The LIFE Picture Collection via Getty Images
A new look at “one of the greatest unsolved crimes in American history”
Where there are still plenty of real books: the Harvard Depository
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A visit to the Harvard Depository
Sublime seaweed: nature photographer Josie Iselin’s cyanotype of Pikea californica
Photograph by Cyanotype by Josie Iselin
Recent books with Harvard connections
President and supporter: Maricopa County sheriff Joe Arpaio, pardoned by President Trump
Photograph by Scott Olson/Getty Images
…and don’t always forgive
Correspondence on not-so-famous lost words
Colin Cabot takes heart in the traditional skills, like woodworking, that are preserved at Sanborn Mills Farm.
Photograph by Jim Harrison
Promoting craftsmanship and agrarian skills in an idyllic New Hampshire setting