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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.
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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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Beautiful math, guns, sexual harassment, and more
The perils of noncommunication
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Hu believes a plant-based diet can help feed a growing population in a healthy, sustainable way.
Photograph by Jim Harrison
Frank Hu confronts the triple threats of obesity, undernutrition, and climate change.
Pippa Norris
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Harvard political scientist Pippa Norris chronicles the rise of populist authoritarians in Western democracies.
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(1 of 5) Iconography of an author: Karl May as his famous character Old Shatterhand, with silver rifle (ca. 1900)Photograph by Ullstein bild Dtl./Contributor/Getty Images
Brief life of a myth-making writer: 1842-1912
Beautiful math, guns, sexual harassment, and more
The perils of noncommunication
Illustration by Darrel Rees
Researchers studying 95 million Medicare records find new fine-particle impacts in the blood, gut, skin, kidneys, and other organs.
Illustration by Michal Steich
Index funds cast a large proportion of proxy votes in U.S. companies, but take a hands-off approach with management.
Illustration by Phil Foster
The right to rule depends not only on the way power is gained, but how it is wielded.
A common plasticizer causes infertility, and fructose affects fat metabolism.
At The Homestead
Photograph by Norman Eggert/Alamy Stock Photo
Delving into the world of Emily Dickinson
At the French Windows. The Artist’s Wife, (1897), by Laurits Andersen Ring
Courtesy of the Bruce Museum
Images that help unveil the truth of what we can see
Mind the net: Sophomore goalie Lindsay Reed, flanked by teammates Ali Peper (13) and Nicki Lutschaunig (12), homes in on a speeding puck during a January win against Union College. Last year, Reed averaged more than 30 saves per game.
Photograph by Gil Talbot/Courtesy of Harvard Athletics Communications
The many saves of a six-foot goalie
Labor law experts Benjamin Sachs and Sharon Block, co-leaders of Clean Slate
Photograph by Stephanie Mitchell/Harvard Public Affairs and Communications
A Harvard Law School initiative calls for a revitalized labor law “to shift power from corporations to workers.”
Alan Jenkins
Photograph by Jim Harrison
A brief look at a Harvard Law School professor's long journey
Elisa New began teaching online humanities courses in 2013.
Photograph by Rose Lincoln/Harvard Public Affairs and Communications
Literature professor Elisa New spearheads an online poetry course for talented students in underserved high schools.
A professor arrested, gift-giving guidelines, and an update on the graduate-student union
Rendering courtesy of Tishman Speyer
The Law School launches a “Shield Working Group,” Allston update, keeping tabs on “fake news,” and more
Actors Jon Michael Hill (seated) and Namir Smallwood in the Lincoln Center Theater production of Pass Over
Photograph by Jeremy Daniel
Playwright Antoinette Nwandu confronts race, religion, and her personal history.
Bookworms often start young.
Photograph by Fox Photos/Stringer/Hulton Archive/Getty Images
An addiction to reading
Choi and supporters gathered at the New York state capitol last year to urge passage of new driver’s license legislation.
Photograph courtesy of the New York Immigration Coalition
Steven Choi, J.D. ’04, works—and fights—at the vitriolic epicenter of immigration politics.
The HAA recognizes those who bolster Harvard clubs and SIGs.
The official 2020 slates
At his seventieth Harvard-Yale game, in 2012, Paul Lee ’46 proudly carried the replica Little Red Flag. Steve Goodhue ’51 is beside him; Spencer Ervin ’54 and Jeff Lee ’74 stand behind.
Photograph courtesy of Judy Goodhue
Are you eligible to carry the (replica) Little Red Flag?
A possible film about cardiologist Paul Dudley White