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Ukrainian president urges help from students and institutional leaders.
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This image of Sagittarius A*, captured by the Event Horizon Telescope, is the first direct visual evidence of the presence of this supermassive black hole at the center of our galaxy.
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Scientists affiliated with the Event Horizon Telescope publish the first image of Sagittarius A*, the black hole at the center of the Milky Way Galaxy.
Steven Goldstein, emeritus professor of government at Smith College, with moderator Christopher Li, director of research at the Indo-Pacific Security Project and fellow at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs
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The East Asian implications of the Russia-Ukraine War
This plaque, placed on Wadsworth House in 2016, began Harvard’s public recognition of its legacy of slavery. The report issued today significantly deepens and broadens that understanding.
Photograph by Niko Yaitanes/Harvard Magazine
A searching examination of the places kept “outside history,” and steps to come to terms with the University’s past
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After much debate, the Faculty of Arts and Sciences votes to adopt a system of previous-term registration for classes.
Amid controversy, the representative student body is replaced.
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After more than a decade, an institutional voice departs.
Erin Kelly and Salamishah Tillet honored for “searing” and “stylish” writing in biography and criticism
After much debate, the Faculty of Arts and Sciences votes to adopt a system of previous-term registration for classes.
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The strange, haunting magic of Boston Harbor's Deer Island
Ruby Red horsechestnut (Aesculus x carnea ‘Briotii’)
Photograph by William “Ned” Friedman/The Harvard Arnold Arboretum
Lesser-known plants with tricks up their sleeves (or, rather, stems)
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President Bacow on maintaining University values while adopting the best lessons learned during the pandemic
The gains and losses from changes in Commencement and “shopping week”
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Erin Kelly and Salamishah Tillet honored for “searing” and “stylish” writing in biography and criticism
The 2022 Harvard Horzions scholars
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Ph.D. students discuss subjects from aliens to infrastructural aesthetics.
Actor and producer Alex Molina on filming a feature-length thriller in a single take
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As an assistant coach at the University of Michigan, Moore helped lead the Wolverines to the NCAA Tournament's Elite Eight.
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She succeeds Kathy Delaney-Smith, who led the Crimson for 40 seasons.
Comprehensive modernization to begin this year
In her final season, the Harvard women’s basketball coach stays “in the moment."
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Brief life of a dauntless educator: 1887-1951
Emerson’s oratory backstory, somber reunion notes, and happier days
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Authoritarianism, labor law, climate change, and more
President Bacow on encountering—and coming to terms with—COVID-19
Faculty governance and long-range intellectual planning for Harvard
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(1 of 7) The St. Louis, Missouri, skyline on the Mississippi River, as seen from East St. Louis, IllinoisPhotograph by Visions of America/Education Images/Universal Images Group via Getty Images
Walter Johnson’s radical history of St. Louis
(Click on arrow at right to see the full image) Patricia Watwood’s 2001 posthumous portrait of Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin echoes Vermeer’s The Astronomer.
Painting © Patricia Watwood/From the Harvard University Portrait Collection. Gift of Dudley and Georgene Herschbach
Photograph © President and Fellows of Harvard College
Brief life of a breakthrough astronomer: 1900-1979
President Donald Trump’s fiscal 2021 U.S. budget, pre-COVID-19: add a few trillion dollars of debt
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The politics, policymaking, and public consequences of mounting government debt—and how to cope with it
Authoritarianism, labor law, climate change, and more
President Bacow on encountering—and coming to terms with—COVID-19
Faculty governance and long-range intellectual planning for Harvard
(Click on arrow at right to see full image) Butterflies of six different species, photographed in infrared wavelengths, reveal patterns unseen in visible light.
Image courtesy of Naomi Pierce and Nanfang Yu
A study reveals new dimensions to their function and beauty.
Matthias Nahrendorf uses equipment like this PET/CT imaging scanner to study the role of white blood cells in inflammation.
Photograph by Jim Harrison
Exercise attenuates stem cell production of pro-inflammatory white blood cells.
Illustration by Robert Neubecker
Elizabeth Bartholet highlights risks when parents have 24/7 authoritarian control over their children.
Activity tracking to identify the at-risk elderly, and China’s offshore windfarm potential
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(1of 7) Old Slater Mill sitePhotograph courtesy of Blackstone River Valley National Historical Park
Tracing America’s industrial roots in the Blackstone River Valley
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(1 of 3) Exhibits, like this replica of a textile-mill floor, reveal long days of grueling work on dangerous mill machinery.Photograph courtesy of the Museum of Work & Culture
Woonsocket’s historic French-Canadian community
Bright-red clackers helped public-health degree candidates promote hand-washing on Commencement morning in 2019.
Photograph by Jim Harrison
Harvard’s 369th Commencement goes virtual.
An unseasonable move-out: packing up at Eliot House
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The sudden dispersal from Cambridge and Boston, Commencement postponed, and the looming financial consequences
Bharat N. Anand
Photograph courtesy of Bharat N. Anand
A push to emphasize learning rather than teaching
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Photograph by Stephanie Mitchell/HPAC
Widener Library’s overlooked designer
Developments at Harvard, Brown’s changed investments, and Yale’s engagement with companies in its portfolio
A plot of Lorenz’s “butterfly effect” model: “curves wrapping themselves wildly around the x and y axes ”
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A student scientist contemplates power and the denial of scholarship.
A necessary but brutal blow
Cai (far left) and teammates swarm Filip Dolegiewiez, who clinched their Ivy title.
Photograph courtesy of Crimson Athletic Communications
How Harvard fencers won an Ivy championship
InThis is Love,filmmakers John Alexander and JC Guest document Rudy Love’s scattered, euphoric, tumultuous life.
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John Alexander follows the ups and downs of funk musician Rudy Love.
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The Business School’s Rebecca Henderson reimagines capitalism to save the planet.
“Telephone Poles” (1947): an ordinary landscape, observed and drawn by J.B. Jackson
Courtesy of Helen Lefkowitz Horowitz
Recent books with Harvard connections
The artistic mission of the renovated Chelsea Theatre is partly informed by its public-housing neighborhood.
Photograph by Maurice Savage/Alamy Stock Photo
Joshua McTaggart leads London’s Chelsea Theatre into a new era.
Bunting Fellows in conversation, circa 1964-1972; Tillie Olsen, holding a cup, is at right.
Photograph by Olive Pierce (circa 1964-1972). Copyright © the Pierce family. Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe Institute, Harvard University
From “women’s confinement” to “women’s liberation” at the Radcliffe Institute
A correspondence corner for not-so-famous lost words