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Royall House and Slave Quarters in Medford, Massachusetts
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Medford museum spotlights the historic link between wealth and human bondage.
Senator Elizabeth Warren emphasized that workers are making important wins, but corporations are still union busting.
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New Harvard Law center focuses on unionization and equitable labor law
The honorees will visit Cambridge next week for a parade, a show, and a (loving) roast.
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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.
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What fossil fuel interests knew about climate change, and when
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The 2023 nominees detail their experiences and view of Harvard’s challenges and prospects.
Loeb House, where the University’s governing boards convene
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Candidates for the Board of Overseers and Harvard Alumni Association elected directors are announced.
Edwin Bancroft Henderson and the history behind the Harvard-Howard game
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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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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
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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.
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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
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Recent books with Harvard connections
The artistic mission of the renovated Chelsea Theatre is partly informed by its public-housing neighborhood.
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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