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Lessons from Bangkok presented at the Harvard Graduate School of Design
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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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Harvard Law students, and others, critique legal practice.
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Lessons from Bangkok presented at the Harvard Graduate School of Design
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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.
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A Harvard singing class that's about more than music
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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.
From the archives
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“Fine-tuning” an ancient practice to heal, not harm
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Readers’ views on immigration, the pandemic, the Electoral College, and more
President Bacow on Harvard’s challenge to federal efforts banning international students
Time to rethink the campus-development agenda?
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A biological anthropologist explains why and how exercise works to combat senescence.
Professor Noah Feldman arrives to testify during a House Judiciary Committee hearing on the constitutional grounds for the impeachment of President Donald Trump, December 4, 2019.
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Harvard Law School professor Noah Feldman’s constitutionalism is a branch of the humanities.
Jones at work in the offices of the West Indian Gazette in Brixton, South London, in 1962
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Brief life of an intersectional activist: 1915-1964
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President Bacow on Harvard’s challenge to federal efforts banning international students
Time to rethink the campus-development agenda?
Illustration by Blair Kelly
In his freshman seminar, Cumrun Vafa uses puzzles to help students understand complex physics.
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(1 of 4) Essex Bay reflects New England’s history and reliance on the natural world.Photograph courtesy of Essex River Cruises Inc.
Exploring the coastal wonders of Essex, Massachusetts
Classic Cape Cod sand, water, and sky
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Swim, walk, and picnic along cycling routes
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(1 of 4) The Georgian mansion and adjacent slave quarters were once part of a 500-acre farm just north of Boston.Photograph by Theresa Kelliher/Courtesy of the Royall House and Slave Quarters museum
Preserving black history as “an act of liberation”
Venkatesh Murthy
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A brief look at what animals’ sense of smell reveals about the brain
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A gift policy, and peer institutions’ new climate schools
Sherri Ann Charleston
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New diversity and inclusion officer, new University Professor, and more
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The 2020-2021 Ledecky Undergraduate Fellows
A correspondence corner for not-so-famous lost words
Megha Majumdar
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Megha Majumdar’s novel of India resonates in the United States.