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Astrophysicist Kareem El-Badry challenges scientific mistakes.
How much intervention is too much, or not enough, when addressing a politically and socially diverse population?
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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
Photograph ©Millicent Harvery/Courtesy of the Blue Garden
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.
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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From the archives
Image courtesy of Baker Library, Harvard Business School
Edwin H. Land and the shaping of entrepreneurship in Greater Boston
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Imposter syndrome, AI and authoritarianism, shopping week
Thinking about how Harvard conducts admissions, as the Supreme Court prepares to weigh in
After feeling down during the early months of the pandemic, high schooler Ibrahim Barry found inspiration and support from his family.
Photograph by Stu Rosner
Addressing the complexities of children’s mental health
Schultes at Chiribiquete
Photograph courtesy of the Schultes Family and the Amazon Conservation team
Brief life of a pioneering ethnobotanist and conservationist: 1915-2001
Illustration by Gwen Keraval
Why (and how) to help undergraduates make the most of their extracurriculars
Imposter syndrome, AI and authoritarianism, shopping week
Thinking about how Harvard conducts admissions, as the Supreme Court prepares to weigh in
Illustration by Matt Chinworth
Harvard researchers find that fracking shortens the lives of elderly Americans living downwind of unconventional oil and gas wells.
Illustration by Jungyeon Roh
Why cutting jobless aid during the pandemic didn’t send workers scrambling for work
Design renderings for the East Side Coastal Resiliency Project highlight its goals of physical and social resiliency: to protect citizens from floods and provide spaces to gather.
Project rendering by BIGNYC/Bjarke Ingels Group
A Design School class suggests how “social infrastructure” can meet societal needs.
Cruising on the schooner Argia
Photograph courtesy of Argia Mystic Cruises
Visiting Mystic, Connecticut
Helio-Centric III, 1993
Painting ©Mildred Thompson/Courtesy of the New Britain Museum of American Art
Mildred Thompson's abstract vision
Crow’s Nest (1984), by Lanford Monroe
Images courtesy of the Museum of American Bird Art/Mass Audubon
A Concord Museum and Mass Audubon exhibit on William Brewster celebrates a new wildlife sanctuary
Law graduates wield their gavels
Photograph by Jim Harrison
Harvard’s 371st Commencement, and a celebration for the classes of 2020-2021
Urbanist William Julius Wilson and the ever-activist Gloria Steinem
Photograph by Jim Harrison
Harvard’s 2022 honorary-degree recipients
Absent a printed Harvard Gazette, the Commencement crowd devoured The Crimson.
Photograph by Jim Harrison
Tidbits from a memorable, celebratory Harvard week
President Lawrence S. Bacow at the 371st Commencement, May 26
President Bacow on humility, Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern on democracy and social media, and Attorney General Merrick Garland on civic engagement and threats to U.S. democracy
This plaque, placed on Wadsworth House in 2016, began Harvard’s public recognition of its legacy of slavery. A report issued in April significantly deepens and broadens that understanding.
Photograph by Niko Yaitanes/Harvard Magazine
A long-awaited, unsparing picture
President Bacow and Senior Fellow Lee on Harvard today
Katie Lapp
Photograph by Stephanie Mitchell/Harvard Public Affairs and Communications
The EVP retires, new Overseers leaders, Stanford’s sustainability school, and more
After much debate, the Faculty of Arts and Sciences votes to replace shopping week with previous-term registration.
Aerial view of the San Juan and Colorado Rivers (2016)Photograph by Stephen Strom
Photographer Stephen Strom explores otherworldly landscapes
Emily Carmichael
Photograph by Art Streiber for Universal Pictures and Amblin Entertainment
Jurassic World Dominion screenwriter Emily Carmichael on scripting Hollywood sci-fi epics
From left, Megan Moten, Caress Russell, and Keisha Coleman practice debate, and civil discourse, at Wiley College.
Photograph by Donna McWilliam/Associated Press Images
Harvard debater Bo Seo writes about productive differences of opinion.