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Claudine Gay, social science dean and Cowett professor of government and of African and African American studies
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The initative includes interdisciplinary conversation, annual symposia, and a postdoc program.
Nadya Okamoto
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Nadya Okamoto ’20 is juggling wider aspirations and school work.
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Growth in Harvard healthcare costs moderates.
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Oral bacteria can lodge in the gut and trigger inflammatory bowel conditions.
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Machine learning may raise the potential for predicting where—and when—an earthquake might strike.
Pakistanis eating rice, a staple crop and major source of protein in South Asia.
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How global warming can change crop nutrition
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Nadya Okamoto
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Nadya Okamoto ’20 is juggling wider aspirations and school work.
The Winthrop House library
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Undergraduates return to newly improved digs.
Rachel L. Gable
Photograph by Harvard Magazine/JCHow some colleges help first-generation and low-income students succeed
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Fellow classics concentrators Sam Beck ’16 (left) and E.E. Cummings ’15
What one undergraduate learned
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Cooking lessons at the French Cultural Center
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Greater Boston’s cultural centers offer a lot more than language classes.
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Harvard’s Houghton Library explores “Altered States: Sex, Drugs, and Transcendence.”
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A Moldovan restaurant in Newton reflects rich culinary traditions.
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Readers comment on criminal injustices, alumni who died in Vietnam, political correctness, and more.
Drew Faust
President Drew Faust describes Harvard’s efforts to evaluate how well—and what exactly—its students learn.
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Bob Dylan in 1965. Already, the classical world was starting to influence his writing.
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In a new book, classicist Richard Thomas explores Bob Dylan’s literary ties to ancient Greece and Rome.
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Anne Fadiman ’74 recalls her father, Clifton, in an excerpt from The Wine Lover’s Daughter
Maureen Freely
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Maureen Freely ’74, longtime translator of Orhan Pamuk, shares the nuances of bringing a text from one language to another.
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Freshman Harvard quarterback Jake Smith showed some moves as he slalomed through Princeton defenders on a 26-yard run.
Photograph by Tim O'Meara/The Harvard CrimsonA shellacking in the Stadium
Harvard's Charlie Booker deployed a mighty stiff arm to fend off Lafayette's Philip Parham. The Crimson junior rampaged his way to a career-high 159 yards on the ground.
Photograph by Tim O'Meara/The Harvard CrimsonThe Crimson gets back on track.
On one of his 11 tackles, Harvard senior defensive back Tim Haehl wrapped up Cornell's James Hubbard after a seven-yard gain.
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Cornell inexorably outmuscles Harvard.
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Fellow classics concentrators Sam Beck ’16 (left) and E.E. Cummings ’15
What one undergraduate learned
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“Vagabonding,” Harvard Student Agencies, and more from the Harvard Alumni Bulletin and Harvard Magazine
Massachusetts Hall
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Twenty submissions have been selected as semifinalists to replace the final line in Harvard’s alma mater.
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How market forces have made American higher education radically unequal
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April 2007: Drew Gilpin Faust at her then-office as dean of the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study
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A Scholar in the House
Tradition and the twenty-first century were tangled together in Barker Center’s Thompson Room on the afternoon of February 11, when Drew...
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