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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.
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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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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Readers’ views on the Supreme Court, reparations, the humanities, and more
The endowment data drought, and the FAS dean’s downsized report
President Bacow on conversations with students
The publisher and editor on changes in the magazine’s design—and its evolving service to readers in its 125th anniversary year
A salute to a writer and two artists who served readers especially well in 2022
ArtLords covered Kabul’s concrete blast walls with brightly colored murals denouncing corruption and promoting peace and human rights. This one depicted the famous handshake that followed the signing of the United States-Taliban agreement in February 2020 to end the war in Afghanistan and withdraw American troops.
Photograph courtesy of ArtLords
Harvard’s Scholars at Risk Program helps endangered artists and scholars
The rising artist as a student at Rhode Island School of Design in the 1950s
Image courtesy of Felipe Pereda
Brief life of an abstract painter: 1924-1984
Readers’ views on the Supreme Court, reparations, the humanities, and more
The endowment data drought, and the FAS dean’s downsized report
President Bacow on conversations with students
The publisher and editor on changes in the magazine’s design—and its evolving service to readers in its 125th anniversary year
A salute to a writer and two artists who served readers especially well in 2022
Romanian children in a Bucharest orphanage, circa 1995
Photograph by Romano Cagnoni/Getty Images
Neglected children’s neurodevelopmental impairments persist into young adulthood.
Illustration by Gary Neill
Pharmaceutical companies subsidize the cost of their drugs to keep prices high.
Luanda's Angolan-Cape Verdean-Portuguese food
Photograph courtesy of Luanda Restaurant & Lounge
Exploring Cape Verdean and Caribbean cuisine
A rousing game of trampoline-dodgeball
Photograph courtesy of Launch
Trampoline parks—fun for all ages
Passions ran high as the Supreme Court heard the Harvard and University of North Carolina cases on race-conscious admissions October 31. Shown here: demonstrators outside the Court
Photograph by Chip Sommadevilla/Getty Images
The Supreme Court hears the Harvard and UNC admissions cases.
Thomas J. Hollister, vice president for finance and CFO
Paige Brown, Courtesy Tufts Medical Center
A huge budget surplus, but a down year for the endowment
The dean’s annual report, plus updates on the faculty and its finances
Sara N. Bleich
Photograph by Stephanie Mitchell/HPAC
Rankled about rankings, acting on the slavery report, and more
DOUBLE TEAM Harvard’s Truman Jones (90) and Khalil Dawsey corral Yale running back Joshua Pitsenberger. Defensive lineman (and Crimson captain) Jones led the team with six sacks and was named to the All-Ivy first team.
Photograph by Juilian Giordano/The Harvard Crimson
Kings of the road, the football team struggled at home—and in The Game.
Image of plans for Ford’s Michigan Central Park
Rendering courtesy of Mikyoung Kim Design
Landscape architect Mikyoung Kim’s healing arts
Finn Bamber (left) and Clay Oxford (right) at the control boards for In the Heights.
Photograph by Stu Rosner
Theater technicians Finn Bamber and Clay Oxford bring Harvard theater to life.