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Claudine Gay announces the advisory committee for successor to Frank Doyle.
Long COVID Symptoms
Healthy lifestyle factors may reduce the risk of long COVID symptoms, including fatigue, attention disorders, memory loss, shortness of breath, digestive disorders, and anxiety and depression.
Harvard researchers find that lifestyle factors like weight and sleep are associated with reduced risk.
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Long COVID Symptoms
Healthy lifestyle factors may reduce the risk of long COVID symptoms, including fatigue, attention disorders, memory loss, shortness of breath, digestive disorders, and anxiety and depression.
Harvard researchers find that lifestyle factors like weight and sleep are associated with reduced risk.
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.
Photomontage illustration by Niko Yaitanes/Harvard Magazine; photographs by Unsplash
What fossil fuel interests knew about climate change, and when
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Harvard Law students, and others, critique legal practice.
The complicated return to campus post-pandemic
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Lessons from Bangkok presented at the Harvard Graduate School of Design
Top row, left to right: Sylvia Mathews Burwell, Jeffrey D. Dunn, Arturo Elizondo, Srishti Gupta Narasimhan
Bottom row, left to right: Fiona Hill, Vanessa W. Liu, Robert L. Satcher Jr., Luis A. UbiñasPhotographs courtesy of HAA; photomontage by Harvard Magazine
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.
Photograph courtesy of Julie Chung
A Harvard singing class that's about more than music
The honorees will visit Cambridge next week for a parade, a show, and a (loving) roast.
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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.
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Shelby Meyerhoff uses body paint and photography to transform herself into creatures and scenes from the natural world. Photograph: a blue-ringed octopus
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Shelby Meyerhoff’s liminal, liberating body painting
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Acupuncture, climate change, renaming
President Bacow on speech on campus
What Ivy institutions’ diverging paths reveal
Photograph by Aaron Conway/aaconn studio
Back in his hometown: Stephen Gray in downtown Cincinnati
Stephen Gray pioneers equitable urban design.
Jeannie Suk Gersen
Photograph by Stu Rosner
Jeannie Suk Gersen on the law, trauma, and “the rhetoric of believing”
Bryant at work, captured in an undated photograph.
Image courtesy of the Museum of Comparative Zoology/Harvard University
Brief life of an underappreciated arachnologist
Acupuncture, climate change, renaming
President Bacow on speech on campus
What Ivy institutions’ diverging paths reveal
Illustration by Alex Williamson.
In a new book, Louis Menand probes the cultural currents of postwar America.
The persistence of a giant storm on Jupiter—the planet’s iconic red spot—has perplexed scientists for generations.
Image courtesy of NASA/JPL-Caltech/SwRI/MSSS
The gas giant’s storms could be driven by processes thousands of kilometers below the surface.
Coolidge Corner Theater offers small-group rentals.
Photograph courtesy of Coolidge Corner Theater
Greater Boston’s small cinemas strive to engage film-goers during the pandemic.
Shen Wei in his New York studio, 2014
Photograph by Jeffrey Sturges
“Shen Wei: Painting in Motion,” at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum
Solomon Gate in its typical open position
At Houghton and Lamont libraries, a creative new entry into the Yard
Nancy Coleman, dean of continuing education
Photograph by Michelle dunham Photography
Pandemic-driven virtual learning booms—and perhaps promises improved residential education, too.
Prospective candidates and their diverse views of Harvard’s future and the Board’s role
Patrick Chung
Photograph courtesy of Patrick Chung
The Xfund helps young entrepreneurs launch companies and careers.
Judith and Sean Palfrey
Photograph courtesy of Judith and Sean Palfrey
Adams House changing of rhe guard, Institute of Politics controversy, an avalanche of applications, and more
Pandemic precautions: safety procedures prevail as students return for spring term.
Photograph by Meena Venkataramanan
Reports on the pandemic spring semester, policing reform, Allston enlargement, and cell-manufacturing
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(1of 4) Details from The Sistine Chapel: Michelangelo’s ceilingPhotograph © Vatican Museum
Nicholas Callaway publishes the Sistine Chapel in closeup.
The heap: a mound of scrap fabric documents an industry, and a term.
Photograph courtesy of Hanna Rose Shell
“From Devil’s Dust to the Renaissance of Rags”—a surprising account of scrap
Illustration by Matt Chase, from the book
Reinterpreting the distinctive psychology of the human West