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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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Shelby Meyerhoff’s liminal, liberating body painting
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Health care, St. Louis, pioneering astronomer
President Bacow on Harvard’s history of confronting—and helping conquer—pandemics
What Harvard has already learned from the pandemic—and strategic challenges to come
Ethnographer Roberto Gonzales spent 12 years following the lives of undocumented young people.
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Sociologist Roberto Gonzales on the predicament of undocumented young people
(Click on arrow at right to view full image) No true likeness of Callimachus is known to exist, but the Libyan-born poet probably resembled the men whose faces appear on the Hellenistic coffins unearthed in Fayum, Egypt, including this one.
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Brief life of a multifaceted poet: c. 310 B.C.E. - c. 240 B.C.E.
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(1 of 4) Bill Clinton with Yasser Arafat, King Hussein, and Benjamin Netanyahu, October 1, 1996, at the White HousePhotograph by Ron Sachs/CNP/Getty Images
On restoring American leadership through diplomacy
Health care, St. Louis, pioneering astronomer
President Bacow on Harvard’s history of confronting—and helping conquer—pandemics
What Harvard has already learned from the pandemic—and strategic challenges to come
Illustration by Paul Boston
Researchers hope to tease out the effects of breeding and training on dog brain structure.
Illustration by Gary Neill
If the press is essential to democracy, what can be done to save news organizations?
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(1 of 4) Ipswich River Sanctuary (Mass Audubon)Photograph courtesy of Mass Audubon/Kelly Moffett
Getting away and outside safely this summer
Salisbury Beach State Reservation
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Strict lines in the sand
Melissa Dell
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“In the 1960s, 1970s, 1980s, people in academic institutions like Harvard predominantly studied the U.S. and Europe,” says the development economist.
The factors influencing the fall semester—and beyond
The University adopts a new goal for managing the endowment.
The general counsel’s report recommended—and prompted—action.
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Illustration by Nicolas Ogonosky
The Undergraduate faces up to a postgraduate life without handrails.
The cast of The Hot Wing King
Photograph by Monique Carboni
Playwright Katori Hall on the joy—and trauma—of black life
A spontaneous photo of Zevin and her late dog Nico taken on a sofa trashed in Los Angeles. “As soon as we were done, a random guy loaded it into his truck.”
Photograph by Hans Canosa
A prescient novelist is hopeful that “after great change, amazing things can happen.”
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