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Nancy Hopkins (center) stands with Salvador Luria (left) and David Baltimore at the MIT Cancer Center in the 1980s.
Photograph courtesy of MIT Museum
New book on Nancy Hopkins speaks to women's fight for equality then—and their fight now
The human rights advocate co-founded Partners In Health in 1987.
Spanning more than 50 years, the conceptual artist’s work explores race, class, gender, and identity.
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Horsemanship appears to have played a key role in the spread of the Yamnaya people.
Photograph by istock and altered by Jennifer Carling/Harvard Magazine
New evidence on domestication of horses—and the spread of an ancient Eurasian culture
The Salata Institute has chosen five teams to pursue solutions to a variety of climate-change impacts.
Logo courtesy of Salata Institute; solar panel photograph by Unsplash
Teams of Harvard researchers will develop concrete proposals for addressing specific climate impacts.
As the ranks of the elderly swell, there are too few housing options for seniors who want to “age in place.”
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Brief life of a Harvard-educated Buddhist scholar: 1854-1899
Alexandra Petri introduces the poet to tech support for help with her keyboard.
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Spring is the perfect time to touch up your property
A glimpse of the shops and restaurants across from the town green
Photograph by Stan Tess/Alamy Stock Photo
Visiting America’s first formal law school
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Pursuing their individual brands, colleges neglect the needs of higher education.
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Spanning more than 50 years, the conceptual artist’s work explores race, class, gender, and identity.
Patricia and Edmund Michael Frederick have been collecting and restoring historical pianos since the 1970s.
Photograph by Jim Harrison
An instrument restorer’s beautiful obsession
A new novel from foreign correspondent Wendell Steavenson
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Harmoni Turner '25 had 21 points, 13 assists, and 10 rebounds, making her just the sixth player in Ivy League history to earn a triple-double.
Photograph courtesy of Harvard Athletics
Women’s basketball demolishes Towson in the first round of the WNIT.
Chris Ledlum makes a breakaway dunk after stealing the ball during a game last November against Loyola Chicago.
Photograph by Gil Talbot/Harvard Athletics
Chris Ledlum ’23 makes his mark on the hardcourt.
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Brief life of a Harvard-educated Buddhist scholar: 1854-1899
Cornhole at HBS, prayer and meditation at SEAS, minerologist’s meter, eclipse aficionado
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Re-engaging with nature alongside the director of the Arnold Arboretum
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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”
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
Photograph by Jim Harrsion
Engineering advances in surgery, mobility, and patient care
“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”
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.
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
Ukrainian flag flying at University Hall
Photograph by Jennifer Carling/Harvard Magazine
Harvard responses to the war on Ukraine
Sabrineh Ardalan
Photograph by Jessica Scranton
Sabrineh Ardalan directs Harvard’s Immigration and Refugee Clinic.
Demonstrators gathered outside the Science Center on February 14 before marching through the Yard.
Photograph by Niko Yaitanes/Harvard Magazine
Lawsuit claims the University downplayed sexual misconduct allegations against anthropology professor John Comaroff.
Clockwise from top left: Sherrilyn Ifill, Merrick B. Garland, Tracy K. Smith, Jacinda Ardern
Clockwise from top left: Photograph courtesy of NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund; United States Department of Justice; Photograph by Stephanie Mitchell/Harvard University; Photograph by the New Zealand Government/Office of the Governor-General
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
Photograph by Reuters/Kevin Lamarque/Pool/Alamy Images
Associate Justice-in-waiting Jackson, the College class of 2026, and more University news
Anna Soltys Morse (red shirt, gray pants) performing hand-to-hand acrobatics with other cast members of the outdoor show Branché
Photograph by Christopher Duggan
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.
Photograph by Javier Vela; courtesy of mariachimusic.com
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
Image Scala/Art Resource, NY
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.
Photographs by Popperfoto via Getty Images/Getty Images
A new history indicts the British imperium.
After struggling to secure a U.S. visa for an Afghan informant, Phil Caruso has helped others navigate this complex process.
Photograph courtesy of Phil Caruso
The U.S. wars in Iraq and Afghanistan are over—but promises remain unfulfilled.
The Board of Overseers and Alumni Association elected director slates