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Rapid COVID-19 tests, of the kind that Michael Mina has been advocating since last year, are finally approved for home use.
Harvard admits a record-low 3.4 percent of applicants
Bill Kristol discusses the future of the Republican Party and the survival of American constitutional democracy.
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A professor and a marketing professional have teamed up to raise awareness of the climate problem through the nonpartisan, nonprofit Potential Energy Coalition.
From the potentialenergycoalition.org website
A professor and a marketing professional try a new tack in climate-change communications.
Alumni scientist-filmmakers bring the Harvard Computers’ story to the screen.
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Harvard admits a record-low 3.4 percent of applicants
Cabot House members cheered up the wintry Quad with their hand-crafted ice lanterns.
Photograph courtesy of Cabot House faculty dean Ian Miller and resident dean Meg Lockwood.
Undergraduate Houses experiment and innovate in attempts to revive the effervescence that once characterized their student communities.
March 2018, Randolph Courtyard: The author (center) and her two future roommates, Sreya at left and Pranati at right, have just run over from the Yard on Housing Day, having learned they’d been assigned to Adams House.
Photograph courtesy of Meena Venkataramanan.
The College’s annual “Housing Day” dramas, conducted online.
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The annual election of Overseers and alumni association directors is under way.
Alumni scientist-filmmakers bring the Harvard Computers’ story to the screen.
A Harvard grandmother’s—and grandson’s—research
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Turning your al fresco space into a springtime oasis
A short list of fine
documentaries and feature films
“Shen Wei: Painting in Motion,” at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum
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March 2018, Randolph Courtyard: The author (center) and her two future roommates, Sreya at left and Pranati at right, have just run over from the Yard on Housing Day, having learned they’d been assigned to Adams House.
Photograph courtesy of Meena Venkataramanan.
The College’s annual “Housing Day” dramas, conducted online.
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Alumni scientist-filmmakers bring the Harvard Computers’ story to the screen.
A short list of fine
documentaries and feature films
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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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From the archives
Illustration by Dan Page
Observations from Twitter prove that even the smallest news outlets can shape public opinion.
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Gun violence, drug laws, climate change and more
President Bacow on Nobel honorands and curiosity-driven research
On the University’s fiscal position and academic aspirations
James Collins
Photograph by by Jim Harrison
For synthetic biologists, there appears to be no limit to what they can build.
Illustration by Gary Neill
David Hemenway advocates a pragmatic, public-health-based solution to gun homicides and suicides.
Photograph by Marc F. Henning / Alamy Stock Photo
New models for newspaper journalism in the Internet era
Gun violence, drug laws, climate change and more
President Bacow on Nobel honorands and curiosity-driven research
On the University’s fiscal position and academic aspirations
Illustration by Taylor Callery
A potential “paradigm shift” in developing new diagnostic tests in mental health
Illustration by Adam Niklewicz
David Deming says existing federal higher-education subsidies, if redeployed, could make public colleges free.
Provincetown’s winter harbor
Photograph by Age Fotostock/Alamy Stock Photo
Just enough art, culture, terrific food, and lively conversation....
John Christian Anderson’s Sacrificial Lamb
Photograph by Will Howcroft
Revealing sculptures at the Fuller Craft Museum, in Brockton
From the New York City production
Photograph by Joan Marcus
“Gloria: A Life,” at the American Repertory Theater
The casual Map Room Tea Lounge offers “bar bites,” like the charcuterie board and tartines
Photograph by Binita Patel
The Boston Public Library’s cozy winter hideout
Walking the line: Graduate Student Union picketers in Harvard Yard on December 3, the morning their strike began.
Photograph by Jonathan Shaw/Harvard Magazine
HGSU-UAW members go out on strike two days before reading period.
Shawon Kinew
Photograph by Stu Rosner
Connecting European Old Masters with the new landscape of art history
A faculty debate, and a challenge slate for the Board of Overseers
An appreciation for outstanding work
Robert L. Scalise
Photograph by Stephanie Mitchell/Harvard Public Affairs and Communications
Sexual-misconduct survey results, and the athletics director to retire
Online summer programs get students ready for inclusive M.B.A., J.D., and M.Ed. studies.
Nobel laureates, HBS dean stepping down, Allston options, and more
Four score: With Yale’s Melvin Rouse II in vain pursuit, Harvard’s Aidan Borguet heads for the goal line. Against the Elis, the Crimson freshman back rushed for a series single-game record 269 yards and amassed four touchdowns on only 11 carries, a performance that helped earn him the Ivy League Rookie of the Year award.
Photographs by Tim O’Meara/The Harvard Crimson
Dreadful defeats—and a heartbreaking Game—produced the Crimson’s first losing season of the century.
The Kupermans choreographed the 2019 musical Alice By Heart, a retelling of Alice in Wonderland set during the London Blitz
Photograph by Deen Van Meer
The brothers Kuperman—choreographers, directors, and storytellers
When the president cared about poverty: LBJ visits Tom Fletcher in Inez, Kentucky, April 24, 1964—an iconic image from the Great Society era
Photograph by Bettmann/Getty Images
The world’s richest nation tolerates “basically the highest child poverty rates in the developed world.”
At the 2019 Artlake Festival in Germany, Chen (in red skirt) and artist Annique Delphine (pink skirt) lead Heal Her, a traveling workshop of collective storytelling and art for sexual-violence survivors.
Photograph by Molly Baber
Lena Chen transforms trauma into art and performance.
From early on, Americans held urban ideals: Mulberry Street, New York City, c. 1900.
Photograph courtesy of the Library of Congress
Recent books with Harvard connections
Fowler, with phones old and new. The dozens in his desk drawer are useful when reviewing current models. “I put a lot of work into trying not to fall into the trap of buying a thing because it’s new,” he says.
Photograph by Patrick Tehan
Geoffrey Fowler tackles the “great reckoning” with privacy.
Alumni describe their challenges in leaving home and coming to the College.