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Lessons from Bangkok presented at the Harvard Graduate School of Design
The position will oversee the visual culture and signage of the University.
Harvard Law students, and others, critique legal practice.
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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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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.
From the archives
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“Fine-tuning” an ancient practice to heal, not harm
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"Shoddy," maskupmanship, American exceptionalism
President Bacow on the principles by which to steer the University
Balancing past obligations, the pandemic, and the future of Harvard’s core mission
“I really had to talk to people about their experiences,” says Sandra Susan Smith about her revealing research.
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Sandra Susan Smith studies work and incarceration in an unequal, atomized America.
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An illuminated page showing Abu Zayd and his friend al-Harith, narrator of the Impostures, arriving in a village, from a copy of the Maqamat (“Impostures”) created in Baghdad in 1237 by Yahya ibn Mahmud al-Wasiti. No portrait of al-Hariri is known to exist.
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Brief life of a master storyteller
The moderator in the middle, as Donald Trump defines “debate” to mean “brawl” in his first face-off with Joe Biden, Cleveland, last September 29.
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Chris Wallace has “the toughest job of any television journalist.”
"Shoddy," maskupmanship, American exceptionalism
President Bacow on the principles by which to steer the University
Balancing past obligations, the pandemic, and the future of Harvard’s core mission
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(1 of 5) Highfield Hall and the sunken garden
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The renewed community life of a grand Cape Cod estate
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The evocative Love Potion
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A blend of Russian Orthodox iconography and mythical motifs
Bridget Terry Long
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Harvard Graduate School of Education introduces core courses and a restructured professional curriculum.
Ruth J. Simmons
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The spring semester, coronavirus KO’s in-person Commencement, and fall prospects
A withering investigation of sexual harassment
The Harvard home page highlighted work on climate change.
Harvard Management Company issues its first “Climate Report,” and an update on divestment advocacy, and other institutions’ progress
Tishman Speyer unveiled its vision for a second, post-2024 phase of development (outside the blue dotted line delineating the phase-one project perimeter)—encompassing an additional million square feet of office/lab and residential space.
Credit: Henning Larsen, Studio Gang, Utile, and Scape.
Bigger Allston ambitions, an admissions-lawsuit appeal, and a new center for cities
A renovated Claverly Hall shines at the center of this aerial view of Adams House, as work continues in other parts of the complex.
Photograph by Peter Vanderwarker
Less construction in prospect, quantum science and engineering, and more
The team with mentors (from left): Kale Catchings, Percy Green, Saul Glist, Robin McDowell, Catie Barr, Jamala Rogers, and the author.
Photograph courtesy of Che R. Applewhaite
The Undergraduate learns about making knowledge mutual.
Johnson performs “What a Wonderful World” with the Boston Pops at his twenty-fifth reunion.
Photograph by Pierce Harman
Scott Albert Johnson finds his path.
Juneteenth pride: commemorating June 19 in 2020, in Greenwood, the site of the Tulsa, Oklahoma, race massacre of 1921
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Annette Gordon-Reed on the real history of Texas, and Juneteenth
Marilyn Booth
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Marilyn Booth translates Arabic literature for Anglophone readers.
An orator dictating to a scribe, Roman, 4th century, Temple of Hercules at Ostia Antica
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From a huge new book on the history of information, an excerpt on the role of secretaries
Maggie Shipstead
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Maggie Shipstead’s time-spanning, globe-circling new novel
Knoll in the field
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Andrew Knoll on the planet’s past—and fraught future
Correspondence on not-so-famous lost words