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How much intervention is too much, or not enough, when addressing a politically and socially diverse population?
Jean Eric Salata, Melanie Salata, Adele Fleet Bacow, Lawrence S. Bacow
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Vice provost James Stock to direct Harvard’s new Salata Institute
How the search for Lawrence S. Bacow’s successor might be structured
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Jean Eric Salata, Melanie Salata, Adele Fleet Bacow, Lawrence S. Bacow
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Vice provost James Stock to direct Harvard’s new Salata Institute
Geneticist David Reich rewrites the ancient human past.
Harvard researchers find that fracking shortens the lives of elderly Americans living downwind of unconventional oil and gas wells.
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Coming to terms with personal and pandemic grief
Why (and how) to help undergraduates make the most of their extracurriculars
New books by Harvard experts on college preparation, rankings, student experiences, and institutional strategies
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Visiting Mystic, Connecticut
Jurassic World Dominion screenwriter Emily Carmichael on scripting Hollywood sci-fi epics
The revered literary magazine editor discusses the writing (and reading) life.
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Gazing across symmetrical reflecting pools of the restored Blue Garden
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Newport's restored landscape
Visiting Mystic, Connecticut
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Thinking about how Harvard conducts admissions, as the Supreme Court prepares to weigh in
Coming to terms with personal and pandemic grief
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Jurassic World Dominion screenwriter Emily Carmichael on scripting Hollywood sci-fi epics
The revered literary magazine editor discusses the writing (and reading) life.
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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.
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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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From the archives
The flowers of Rafflesia arnoldii are the largest in the world.
Photograph by Jeremy Holden
Exploring the genetic mysteries of a gigantic parasite
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Endowment litigation, food waste, western Massachusetts
President Bacow on Harvard Divinity School
Recognizing writers and artists for distinguished work during 2021
Time for greater Harvard transparency
From the inconic Selma-Montgomery voting-rights marches, 1965: Bloody Sunday, as state police attack marchers at the Edmund Pettus Bridge, beating John Lewis, LL.D. ’12 (on ground)
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Tomiko Brown-Nagin’s bifocal view of the civil-rights movement
Portrait of Adamantios Korais, classicist and supporter of political liberalism, on a 100 drachmas banknote, 1978
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Brief life of a leader of the Greek Enlightenment: 1748-1833
Charles Duhigg at home.
Photograph of Charles Duhigg by Glenn Matsumura
Charles Duhigg unpacks how individuals and organizations work at war, on Wall Street, and in Silicon Valley
Endowment litigation, food waste, western Massachusetts
President Bacow on Harvard Divinity School
Recognizing writers and artists for distinguished work during 2021
Time for greater Harvard transparency
Illustration by Blair Kelly
High savings rates among the wealthiest U.S. earners may represent a macroeconomic risk
The impressive two-tiered modern interior of the Armenian Museum of America
Photograph courtesy of the Armenian Museum of America
A museum reflects an ancient civilization and the modern global diaspora.
Bulldog Backbreaker: Wideout Kym Wimberly hauls in Luke Emge’s third-down, last-seconds, no-timeouts pass to secure Harvard’s thrilling 31-27 victory in The Game.
Photograph by Nathan Klima
The Crimson's final win should have clinched an Ivy championship.
Lauren Williams
Photograph by Jim Harrison
Williams feels at home researching underexplored subjects.
Legacies challenged, campus sustainability, affirmative-action litigation, and honored scientists
Image courtesy of the Giant Magellan Telescope/GMTO Corporation
No more Harvard Teacher Fellows, universities and slavery, and more
Celia Pym at work in her studio
Portrait by Michele Panzeri
Textile artist Celia Pym knits meaning into mended clothes.
October 12, 2021: protesting the Los Angeles Unified School District’s COVID-19 vaccination mandate
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Steven Pinker on rationality
As domestic posters suggest, civilian compliance with World War II constraints was neither automatic nor universal.
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Elizabeth Samet, of West Point, reinterprets the American understanding of World War II.
Rudy Ruiz
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Author Rudy Ruiz carries on his Mexican-American family’s storytelling tradition.
Randall Kennedy’s essays address “complex and messy” social and racial issues.
Photograph by Atephanie Nitchel/HPAC
Recent books with Harvard connections