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President Bacow addressed seniors at an in-person Baccalaureate ceremony for the first time since 2019.
Both poet and orator consider the “fundamental threats” facing graduates as Commencement begins.
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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.
IMAGE CREDIT: EHT Collaboration
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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From left: Noah Harris, Lindsay Sanwald, Benjamin Porteous, and Caroline Engelmayer
Photographs (from left to right) Stephanie Mitchell/HPAC, and Kris Snibbe/HPAC; Jon Chase/HPAC; Rose Lincoln/HPAC
Three 2022 graduates—and one from 2020—do the honors.
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
Photograph courtesy of Harvard Graduate School of Arts and Sciences
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.
Photograph by Michigan Athletics/courtesy of Harvard Athletic Communications
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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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.
Photograph by Adam Glanzman
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
Photograph by Georgia P. Zumwalt/Alamy Stock Photo
Strict lines in the sand
Melissa Dell
Photograph by Wess Gray/Courtesy of Melissa Dell
“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.”
Headed to the other Cambridge