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  U.S. Representative Elise Stefanik Removed from IOP Advisory Committee
  
  “Elise has made public assertions about voter fraud in November’s presidential election that have no basis in evidence,” Harvard Kennedy School dean Doug Elmendorf wrote.
  
  1.12.21
  
  Top row, left to right: Christiana Goh Bardon, Mark J. Carney, Kimberly Nicole Dowdell, Christopher B. Howard. Bottom row, left to right: María Teresa Kumar, Raymond J. Lohier Jr., Terah Evaleen Lyons, Sheryl WuDunn
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  Another Competitive Overseers’ Election Takes Shape
  
  Nominating committee slate announced, as Harvard Forward slate seeks petition signatures.
  
  1.12.21
  
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  Will Spring Education Plans Slip?
  
  Administrators sound cautious note about on-campus learning amid the intensifying pandemic.
  
  1.11.21
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  From left to right: Marc Lipsitch, William Hanage, Barry Bloom
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  Coronavirus Mutations Threaten to Worsen Pandemic
  
  Despite vaccines, Harvard scientists warn, more-transmissible variants make COVID-19 harder to control.
  
  1.7.21
  
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  How Acupuncture Relieves Inflammation
  
  “Fine-tuning” an ancient practice to heal, not harm
  
  January-February 2021
  
  Cassandra Albinson
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  Cassandra Albinson
  
  A curator takes a fresh look at portraits of aristocratic European women.
  
  January-February 2021
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  An adept passer and gritty defender, Zeng also finished fifth in the Ivy League in service aces.
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  Laying Out
  
  Volleyball captain Sandra Zeng’s defensive focus
  
  January-February 2021
  
  Though WHRB had to initiate its newest members over Zoom, each student picked a traditional five-character radio name.
  
  The Shows Go On
  
  Extracurriculars cope despite COVID-19.
  
  January-February 2021
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  The Belfer Center at the Harvard Kennedy School
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  U.S. Representative Elise Stefanik Removed from IOP Advisory Committee
  
  “Elise has made public assertions about voter fraud in November’s presidential election that have no basis in evidence,” Harvard Kennedy School dean Doug Elmendorf wrote.
  
  1.12.21
  
  Top row, left to right: Christiana Goh Bardon, Mark J. Carney, Kimberly Nicole Dowdell, Christopher B. Howard. Bottom row, left to right: María Teresa Kumar, Raymond J. Lohier Jr., Terah Evaleen Lyons, Sheryl WuDunn
  Photographs courtesy of Harvard Alumni Association
  
  Another Competitive Overseers’ Election Takes Shape
  
  Nominating committee slate announced, as Harvard Forward slate seeks petition signatures.
  
  1.12.21
  
  Philip W. Lovejoy, executive director, Harvard Alumni Association
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  Reunions, Alumni Meeting to Be Virtual
  
  The alumni association announces the inevitable.
  
  12.15.20
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  Create Your Own Spectacular Staycation
  
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  January-February 2021
  
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  (1 of 2) Among the 107 ensembles are an ornate mantua, c. 1760-65
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  “Made It: The Women Who Revolutionized Fashion”
  
  Highlighting 250 years of women in fashion
  
  January-February 2021
  
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  Berkshire East offers majestic views of the Deerfield River Valley. (1 of 8)
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  Defying the Doldrums
  
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  January-February 2021
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  At Home With Harvard: Editors' Favorite Stories of 2020
  
  Our editors choose their favorite stories from the year.
  
  12.16.20
  
  Lawrence S. Bacow
  
  Making Space
  
  As SEAS moves to Allston, President Bacow highlights the University’s newest innovation hub.
  
  January-February 2021
  
  Three Pairs of Shoes by Vincent van Gogh
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  A Common Underground
  
  Redrawing community at Harvard
  
  January-February 2021
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  Cassandra Albinson
  Photograph by Stu Rosner; Painting: Jeanne-Antoinette Poisson, Marquise de Pompadour (1750) by François Boucher/Courtesy of the Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Bequest of Charles E. Dunlap
  
  Cassandra Albinson
  
  A curator takes a fresh look at portraits of aristocratic European women.
  
  January-February 2021
  
  Jeff Schaffer (in the center) on the set of Curb Your Enthusiasm with its star, Larry David, and fellow cast members
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  “Magical Digressions”
  
  TV writer and producer Jeff Schaffer on how to be funny
  
  January-February 2021
  
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  (1 of 2) Among the 107 ensembles are an ornate mantua, c. 1760-65
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  “Made It: The Women Who Revolutionized Fashion”
  
  Highlighting 250 years of women in fashion
  
  January-February 2021
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  An adept passer and gritty defender, Zeng also finished fifth in the Ivy League in service aces.
  Photograph by Gil Talbot/Harvard Athletic Communications
  
  Laying Out
  
  Volleyball captain Sandra Zeng’s defensive focus
  
  January-February 2021
  
  Roberts pauses during a visit to the Watertown Riverfront Park Braille Trail, not far from his home.
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  Defying Limits
  
  David Roberts: A lifetime of adventures, risks, and rewards
  
  January-February 2021
  
  Crimson receiver and returner Andrew Fischer breaks loose for a 58-yard run in the second quarter—one of several huge plays on the day.
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  Harvard Great Performances: Andrew Fischer ’16
  
  A sensational performance leads Harvard over Yale.
  
  11.20.20
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  The Board of Editors for volume 70 of the Harvard Law Review (1956-1957), immortalized on the steps of Austin Hall. The author, only the third woman admitted to Review membership, stands in the fourth row, at upper left.
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  The Education of a Harvard Lawyer
  
  An alumna looks back.
  
  January-February 2021
  
  Rob Gogan
  
  Crimson’s Mr. Green
  
  The campus’s Mr. Green, accessing acronyms, mathematician at work, and a distracted astronomer
  
  January-February 2021
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  11.30.20
  
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  11.23.20
  
  Rebecca Henderson: Does Capitalism Need to be Reimagined?
  
  11.16.20
  
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  11.9.20
  
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Election Results

November-December 2020

Six new elected directors of the Harvard Alumni Association (HAA) were voted in earlier this year; each will each serve three-year terms. They are:

Santiago Creuheras, A.L.M. ’00, A.L.M. ’01, C.S.S. ’01, Mexico City. Senior consultant on sustainable infrastructure and energy, Inter-American Development Bank

Kelsey Trey Leonard ’10, Hamilton, Ontario. Banting Postdoctoral Fellow, McMaster University

Michael D. Lewis ’93, Cambridge. Strategic technology adviser, iCorps Technologies

Mallika J. Marshall ’92, Weston, Massachusetts. Medical reporter, CBS Boston; physician, Massachusetts General Hospital

Benjamin D. Wei ’08, New York City. CEO, Nova Invite

Joyce Y. Zhang Gray ’09, San Francisco. CEO, Alariss Global

Click here for detailed information on the University’s newly elected Overseers.

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