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Ukrainian president urges help from students and institutional leaders.
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Retiring Harvard Corporation senior fellow William F. Lee on the University and its governance
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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.
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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.
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Amid controversy, the representative student body is replaced.
The 2022 Harvard Horzions scholars
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Ph.D. students discuss subjects from aliens to infrastructural aesthetics.
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Photograph by Stephanie Mitchell/HPACAfter more than a decade, an institutional voice departs.
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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
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Lesser-known plants with tricks up their sleeves (or, rather, stems)
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The gains and losses from changes in Commencement and “shopping week”
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Ph.D. students discuss subjects from aliens to infrastructural aesthetics.
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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.
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She succeeds Kathy Delaney-Smith, who led the Crimson for 40 seasons.
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Comprehensive modernization to begin this year
Kathy Delaney-Smith
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In her final season, the Harvard women’s basketball coach stays “in the moment."
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“Shopping week,” workplace culture, solace, and other reader views
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”
The College Pump
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Emerson’s oratory backstory, somber reunion notes, and happier days
Treasure
Blanche Calloway, in her element
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The success and struggles of a pioneering musician
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Gary Jones with the truck he learned to operate at East Mississippi Community College
Photograph by Matthew G. Wood
Most Americans earn less than their parents did. Can community colleges bridge the gap?
Portrait of Lorna Myrtle Hodgkinson, ca. 1922
Photograph courtesy of Harvard University Archives
Brief life of a dauntless educator: 1887-1951
Pierre Dupont in his pediatric surgical research lab at Boston Children’s Hospital
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Engineering advances in surgery, mobility, and patient care
After receiving her Harvard acceptance, Abigail Mack ’25 went from dozens of views per TikTok video to tens of thousands.
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How students make videos for a world fascinated by Harvard
Letters
“Shopping week,” workplace culture, solace, and other reader views
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”
Right Now
Illustration by Taylor Callery
Unfettered access to personal data may give Chinese companies an edge in artificial intelligence.
Illustration by Giovanni Da Rae
COVID-19’s toll on black patients extends to those who never got the virus.
Illustration by Davide Bonazzi
New research identifies the cellular receptors for Eastern Equine Encephalitis and two related viruses.
Harvard Squared
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)
Untitled, c.2000
Photograph ©Estate of Barkley L. Hendricks/Courtesy of the artist’s estate and Jack Shainman Gallery, New York
How the artist saw community—and the world
Deer Island’s giant steel eggs and wind turbines
Photograph by Mark Nassal/Alamy Stock Photos
The strange, haunting magic of Boston Harbor's Deer Island
Celebratory students at Commencement
Photograph by Jim Harrison
Speakers, ceremonies, and celebrations
Brattle Square Florist tulips
New businesses arrive in the neighborhood—and old ones take on new life. A Harvard2 Local Business Roundup
John Harvard's Journal
Ukrainian flag flying at University Hall
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Harvard responses to the war on Ukraine
Sabrineh Ardalan
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Sabrineh Ardalan directs Harvard’s Immigration and Refugee Clinic.
Demonstrators gathered outside the Science Center on February 14 before marching through the Yard.
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Lawsuit claims the University downplayed sexual misconduct allegations against anthropology professor John Comaroff.
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Jacinda Ardern, Merrick Garland, and other lead speakers at Commencement and alumni events
A hybrid classroom at Harvard Business School, created to enable in-person and remote instruction during the pandemic. The new task force report assesses innovations like this, and their application to residential, hybrid, and remote teaching and learning in Harvard’s future.
Photograph by Hensley Carrasco/Harvard Business School
The future of teaching and learning at Harvard—and beyond
Penny Pritzker elected senior fellow, climate-change investments, Allston expectations, undergraduate academics, and the reformed tenure track
Ketanji Brown Jackson
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Associate Justice-in-waiting Jackson, the College class of 2026, and more University news
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Exclusion and belonging in undergraduate cultural organizations
Illustration by Alice Ye Deng
Thoughts on a perennial undergraduate complaint
In a standout season, the Crimson defeated Boston College 5–4 to win its fifteenth Beanpot—and first since 2015.
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A legendary basketball coach retires, and Crimson teams excel.
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Anna Soltys Morse (red shirt, gray pants) performing hand-to-hand acrobatics with other cast members of the outdoor show Branché
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Anna Soltys Morse and the art of hand-to-hand flying
The Wexner Center for the Arts, at Ohio State University, signaled large shifts in culture—and architecture.
A comprehensive examination of avant-garde architecture
As a singer and songwriter, Claudia García performs mariachi-inspired Latin fusion music.
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How Claudia García got “mariachi fever”
Giuliano da Sangallo’s fine hand applied to both Roman ruins and his own designs: here, San Lorenzo, in Florence
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Recent books with Harvard connections
Members of the Devon Regiment and police, searching homes during the Mau Mau rebellion, round up local people for interrogation c. 1954.
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A new history indicts the British imperium.
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Danielle Allen on America’s broken social contract
Alumni
After struggling to secure a U.S. visa for an Afghan informant, Phil Caruso has helped others navigate this complex process.
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The U.S. wars in Iraq and Afghanistan are over—but promises remain unfulfilled.
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Philip Lovejoy to retire as Harvard Alumni Association executive director
The Board of Overseers and Alumni Association elected director slates
The College Pump
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Emerson’s oratory backstory, somber reunion notes, and happier days
Treasure
Blanche Calloway, in her element
Photograph courtesy of the Harvard Theater Collection
The success and struggles of a pioneering musician