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Ukrainian president urges help from students and institutional leaders.
The annual report on leaders’ compensation
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This image of Sagittarius A*, captured by the Event Horizon Telescope, is the first direct visual evidence of the presence of this supermassive black hole at the center of our galaxy.
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Scientists affiliated with the Event Horizon Telescope publish the first image of Sagittarius A*, the black hole at the center of the Milky Way Galaxy.
Steven Goldstein, emeritus professor of government at Smith College, with moderator Christopher Li, director of research at the Indo-Pacific Security Project and fellow at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs
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The East Asian implications of the Russia-Ukraine War
This plaque, placed on Wadsworth House in 2016, began Harvard’s public recognition of its legacy of slavery. The report issued today significantly deepens and broadens that understanding.
Photograph by Niko Yaitanes/Harvard Magazine
A searching examination of the places kept “outside history,” and steps to come to terms with the University’s past
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After much debate, the Faculty of Arts and Sciences votes to adopt a system of previous-term registration for classes.
Amid controversy, the representative student body is replaced.
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After more than a decade, an institutional voice departs.
Erin Kelly and Salamishah Tillet honored for “searing” and “stylish” writing in biography and criticism
After much debate, the Faculty of Arts and Sciences votes to adopt a system of previous-term registration for classes.
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The strange, haunting magic of Boston Harbor's Deer Island
Ruby Red horsechestnut (Aesculus x carnea ‘Briotii’)
Photograph by William “Ned” Friedman/The Harvard Arnold Arboretum
Lesser-known plants with tricks up their sleeves (or, rather, stems)
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President Bacow on maintaining University values while adopting the best lessons learned during the pandemic
The gains and losses from changes in Commencement and “shopping week”
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Erin Kelly and Salamishah Tillet honored for “searing” and “stylish” writing in biography and criticism
The 2022 Harvard Horzions scholars
Photograph courtesy of Harvard Graduate School of Arts and Sciences
Ph.D. students discuss subjects from aliens to infrastructural aesthetics.
Actor and producer Alex Molina on filming a feature-length thriller in a single take
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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.
Photograph by Michigan Athletics/courtesy of Harvard Athletic Communications
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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Brief life of a dauntless educator: 1887-1951
Emerson’s oratory backstory, somber reunion notes, and happier days
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Legacies, football, knitting
President Bacow on the Arnold Arboretum as a place for plants and people
Harvard’s post-pandemic workplace culture
(Click on arrow to view full image) A sparse Bussey Hill in 1890
Photograph courtesy of the Arnold Arboretum Archives/ ©President and Fellows of Harvard College
A look back at the Arboretum's history—and the millennia to come
Jarvis Givens
Photograph by Stu Rosner
Jarvis Givens rediscovers the underground history of black schooling.
Right: Earl Brown from his Harvard transcript, c.1920.
Left: Team photo, captioned “Harvard Baseball Squad,” 1924, with Brown seated on ground far left.
Photographs courtesy of the Harvard University Archives
Brief life of Harvard’s latest major league baseball player: 1903-1980
Legacies, football, knitting
President Bacow on the Arnold Arboretum as a place for plants and people
Harvard’s post-pandemic workplace culture
Gothic Revival front gate, 1865, designed by Charles Panter
Photograph by M.A. Kleen
Boston’s Forest Hills Cemetery is a welcome respite from the world.
Blue Trees, 1945
Collection Neuberger Museum of art, purchase College, State University of New York. Gift of roy r. Neuberger, 1971.02.05. ©2021 Milton avery Trust/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. Photograph by Jim Frank
The American painter’s "playful use of color and diverse stylistic repertoire" on display in Hartford
President Lawrence S. Bacow
Photograph by Rose Lincoln/Harvard Public Affairs and Communications
President Bacow on pandemic and academic Harvard
Staving off the surge
Emily Oken
Photograph courtesy of Harvard Medical School
Oken's path from archaeology to epidemiology
Photograph by Johnny Louis/Getty Images
ARTS FIRST, Supreme Court affirmative-action review, fading role for standardized texts, and more
A natural- and artificial-intelligence initiative, Allston agita, shopping week, reckonings on visual culture and “denaming”
Kitch competing in a mass-start (classic) 20k in Craftsbury, Vermont.
Photograph courtesy of Harvard Athletic Communications
James Kitch on his competitive mindset
Bradley Scott Davis in his studio with his collection of Daily Frogs
Portrait by Jeff Bukowski
Bradley Scott Davis's conservation-minded artwork
Like no other leader, Lincoln “created the space for mercy.”
Photograph by Steve Allen/Alamy Stock Photo
Michael Ignatieff on Abraham Lincoln on solace
(Click on arrow to view full image) Utagawa Kunisada I (Toyokuni III) (Japanese, 1786–1864), from the series The Color Print Contest of a Modern Genji, 1852. Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.
William Sturgis Bigelow Collection, 11.20821. Courtesy of Museum of Fine Arts
Recent books with Harvard connections
Mike Schur’s How to Be Perfect, a humorous meditation on ethics, grew out of his work on the TV show The Good Place. Above: Schur on the show’s set
Photograph by Colleen Hayes/NBC
A humorous guide to ethics and philosophy, from the sitcom creator
Phillip Golub, performing with Layale Chaker’s band, believes collaboration is integral to his compositions.
Photograph by Little Olive Photography
Jazz composer Phillip Golub and the art of making magic
Abraham Riesman, at home in Providence with his cat, Barbara, writes about pop culture’s overlooked depths.
Photograph by Jim Harrison
Biographer Abraham Riesman plumbs the dark mysteries of the Marvel auteur
Top row, from left to right: Monica Bharel, Sangu J. Delle, Scott Mead, Lauren Ancel Meyers, Cesar Conde; bottom row, from left to right: Todd Y. Park, Kim M. Rivera, Vikas P. Sukhatme, The Hon. Wilhelmina “Mimi” Wright
Photographs of the candidates were provided by Harvard Alumni Association.
Overseer and HAA elected-director nominees—and their views