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The co-director of the quantum science and engineering initiative receives Harvard's highest faculty honor.
The actor and filmmaker will be Harvard’s guest speaker on May 25.
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Horsemanship appears to have played a key role in the spread of the Yamnaya people.
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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.
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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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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.
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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.
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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.
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Chris Ledlum ’23 makes his mark on the hardcourt.
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Brief life of a Harvard-educated Buddhist scholar: 1854-1899
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President Bacow on critics constructive and otherwise
The Supreme Court case, and articulating Harvard’s core values
Justice Elena Kagan
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Ebbing trust in the Supreme Court, and what to do about it
Allison Feaster at the Celtics’ Auerbach Center
Photograph by Stu Rosner
A basketball star's journey from the Harvard hardwood to the Celtics front office
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President Bacow on critics constructive and otherwise
The Supreme Court case, and articulating Harvard’s core values
At Freshman Convocation, above, Dean Rakesh Khurana said, “Veritas is more than just a slogan,”
Photograph by Stephanie Mitchell/HPAC
Convocation and Morning Prayers messages about free speech and fruitful airing of differences
Giang Nguyen
Photograph by Jim Harrison
The HUHS executive director’s public health background prepared him well for the pandemic.
The official portrait captures its subject’s “intensity and even restlessness.”
Photograph by Jon Chase/HPAC
Celebrating the twenty-seventh president—and assessing his legacy
Archon Fung and Meredith Weenick
Photograph by Jon Chase/HPAC and courtesy of Meredith Weenick
Presidential search, boat house rebuilding, giant telescope, M.B.A. aid, and more
At the Kempner debut, Mark Zuckerberg and Priscilla Chan extolled cooperation among the disciplines.
Photograph by John Deputy
Fostering businesses within enginnering and applied sciences, Amazon’s quantum support, and changing concentrations
THE MIGHTY THOR: Junior Thor Griffith, who had two sacks and a game-high nine tackles against Merrimack, was one of the mainstays of a defensive line that routinely stifled opponents’ runners and harassed quarterbacks.
Photograph by Dylan Goodman/courtesy of Harvard Athletic Communications
Picked to win the 2022 Ivy championship, the football team got off to a solid start.
Seligson’s “gallery” above her sofa at home
Photograph courtesy of Judith Seligson
Painter Judith Seligson’s creative juxtapositions
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A revealing new biography of John Singer Sargent
A thunderstorm atop late-winter snow in New England, February 2014: just the thing to delight “weather nerd” Matthew Cappucci
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Recent books with Harvard connections
Kapwani Kiwanga
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Installation artist Kapwani Kiwanga on power, resistance, and plants
Torbert at work, San Francisco 49ers vs. Jacksonville Jaguars, TIAA Bank Field, Jacksonville, November 2021
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