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Pfizer and Moderna vaccines
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A head-to-head comparison in 440,000 vaccinated veterans finds Moderna’s vaccine is slightly more effective than Pfizer’s at preventing a range of COVID-19 outcomes.
At last, an opportunity for the coronavirus-affected classes to proceed into Tercentenary Theatre and partake of the festival rites
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The coronavirus short-circuited their Commencement. Harvard plans a do-over.
University Hall, home to the Faculty of Arts and Sciences leadership
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The Faculty of Arts and Sciences’ annual report portrays a good foundation for its academic future.
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Pfizer and Moderna vaccines
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A head-to-head comparison in 440,000 vaccinated veterans finds Moderna’s vaccine is slightly more effective than Pfizer’s at preventing a range of COVID-19 outcomes.
Newly elected members include a dozen Harvard faculty affiliates.
A sample of Physarum polycephalum sends out slimy, finger-like tendrils to sense information about its petri dish environment.
Image courtesy of Nirosha Murugan, Levin lab, Tufts University, and Wyss Institute at Harvard University
A seemingly primitive creature’s complex ability to detect mass from a distance.
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Illustration by Angelo Dolojan
The Undergraduate returns to student life, altered by the pandemic and a year spent apart.
Fariba Mahmud and Courtney Rabb
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Enriching life at the Houses
Harvard Yard
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A recent graduate visits Harvard during a semi-normal semester
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Carolyn Gold intended her book to be a resource for other brain-injury patients.
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Alumna Carolyn Gold on finding a “new self” after West Nile encephalitis
Elisabeth Sharp McKetta
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Elisabeth Sharp McKetta ’01 finds truth in the border between fact and fiction.
Goodman preps for her show in the studio.
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At Democracy Now! Amy Goodman goes “where the silence is.”
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Hurricane LXXXIV
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Stunning works by Clifford Ross at the Portland Museum of Art
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This holiday, discover safely spectacular ways to celebrate the season.
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Evoking Horton Hears a Who
Photograph courtesy of Springfield Museums
Art, science, sports—and fanciful holiday lights—in the Connecticut River Valley
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Risky entanglements in the political arena—and the potential for major new academic investments
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Stuart Little, with hat and cane. The idea of a mouse being "born" into a human family proved controversial in 1945. In later additions, he merely "arrived."
Photograph courtesy of Houghton Library; Illustration by Garth Williams
“Animals Are Us” contextualizes Houghton’s new treasures.
spalding as "Iphigenia of the Open Tense" in production previews at MASS MoCA
Photograph by Jon Fine
Two jazz legends collaborate on an operatic reimagination of a Greek tragedy.
During her Norton Lectures, Laurie Anderson sometimes dances with herself or plays a violin of her own invention.
Screenshot by Lily Scherlis
Artist Laurie Anderson delivers her fifth virtual Norton Lecture on Wednesday.
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The Conquering Hero: Harvard quarterback Luke Emge was only 14-for-32 passing but was at his best at crunch time, leading the Crimson to their last-minute, go-ahead score.
Photograph by Angela Dela Cruz/The Harvard Crimson
Harvard wins The Game in emphatic fashion.
Touchdown strut: Leaving Penn's Matthew McElroy in his wake, Harvard's Aaron Shampklin gambols toward the end zone on a 72-yard jaunt. Shampklin later put the game away with a 16-yard smash up the middle.
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The Crimson wins, keeping title hopes alive.
Mason and McKenzie Forbes
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Mason and McKenzie Forbes work together on and off the court.
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Richard Lewontin, Richard Zeckhauser, diplomatic security, diverse inclusion, and admissions agita lampooned
(1) Carnations. (2) Gillyvors.
Perdita: The fairest flower o' the season
Are our Carnations and streaked Gillyvors,
Which some call Nature's bastards
Winter's Tale, Act IV, sc. 4
(3) Willow.
Queen: There is a Willow grows aslant a brook,
That shows his hoar leaves in the glassy stream.
There on the pendent boughs her coronet weeds
Clamoring to hang, an envious sliver broke.
Hamlet, Act IV, sc. 7Artwork by Rosa M. Towne and photograph by Edward Tabor
The discovery of Rosa M. Towne’s paintings in the Harvard Botanical Museum
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Emily Broad Leib combats wasted food worldwide.
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Dani Rodrik’s views on trade, development, and democracy enter the mainstream.
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Returning visitors may find themselves disoriented as familiar haunts undergo major makeovers, shown here in mid November. The triangle between JFK and Brattle Streets (foreground) is being rebuilt as a high-end retail mall. The offices over Brattle (plywooded windows to the rear), also in new ownership, are being renovated. And Out of Town News has closed.
At last, an opportunity for the coronavirus-affected classes to proceed into Tercentenary Theatre and partake of the festival rites
Photograph by Jennifer Beaumont/Harvard Magazine
University Hall, home to the Faculty of Arts and Sciences leadership
Photograph by Niko Yaitanes/Harvard Magazine
Claudine Gay, dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences
Photograph courtesy of Harvard Public Affairs and Communications
At last, an opportunity for the coronavirus-affected classes to proceed into Tercentenary Theatre and partake of the festival rites
Photograph by Jennifer Beaumont/Harvard Magazine
University Hall, home to the Faculty of Arts and Sciences leadership
Photograph by Niko Yaitanes/Harvard Magazine
Claudine Gay, dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences
Photograph courtesy of Harvard Public Affairs and Communications
