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Photograph by Jim HarrisonCongressman John Lewis spoke at Drew Faust's last afternoon exercises as Harvard president.
2018 newly elected Harvard Overseers and HAA directors
Photograph by Jim Harrison
The 367th Commencement: the student speakers, the honorary-degree recipients, and the full spectacle of Harvard’s Morning Exercises
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Tomiko Brown-Nagin
Photograph by Kris Snibbe/Harvard Public Affairs and Communications
The legal historian will become dean on July 1.
David Shumway Jones
Photograph by John Soares/Harvard Medical School
Historian David Shumway Jones warns that the cost of precision medicine might lead to higher levels of inequality in healthcare.
Dean Stanley Shaw and Dr. Deborah Schrag
From left: Courtesy of Stanley Shaw and Deborah Schrag
Physicians bring data science to bear on patient health and wellness information.
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Bill Gates
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The Microsoft co-founder talked about his life as a philanthropist—and answered myriad student questions.
Illustration by Jason Ford
Interventions that mobilize family support networks have powerful effects.
Illustration by Wenting Li
The Undergraduate chooses a concentration.
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2018 newly elected Harvard Overseers and HAA directors
From left: Penny S. Pritzker and Carolyn A. “Biddy” Martin
Photograph on right courtesy of Amherst College
New Corporation members and Overseers’ leaders
Janet Pascal ’84 crafts the new final line for “Fair Harvard,” debuting this Commencement.
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Pammy’s jewel-box interior
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Best new restaurants in and around Cambridge
Abbi of Bacabi (1978), among Cannon’s last and unfinished works
Image © 2017 Estate of T. C. Cannon.
Works by T.C. Cannon at the Peabody Essex Museum
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Alexander Solzhenitsyn on Commencement Day, 1978
Photograph copyright © 1978 by Christopher S. Johnson
Echoes of a Harvard Commencement speech 40 years on
A fellow Peace Corps volunteer took this snapshot of the author (at left) during a school visit in Africa.
Courtesy of Michael S. Knapp
A century apart, two alumni find each other in the American South.
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Wim Wenders speaking at Sanders Theatre on April 2
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Wim Wenders delivers the final installment in the 2018 Norton Lectures on Cinema.
Photograph courtesy of Jack Lueders-Booth/Gallery Kayafas
For seven years, Jack Lueders-Booth (above, left) visited the Massachusetts Correctional Institution-Framingham to teach a photography workshop several days each month. Roaming the grounds, he took women prisoners’ portraits with Polaroid, Leica, and medium-format film cameras, documenting scenes from daily life.
The portraits in Jack Lueders-Booth’s 40-year-old series feel even more vivid today.
Claire Chase
Photograph by Stu Rosner
How flutist Claire Chase signals a key change for Harvard’s music department
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Cyclists at the Harvest River Bridge, which opened last year on the newest section of the trail
Photograph by Jessica Mink
Cycling the Neponset River Greenway
Harvard sprinter Gabby Thomas ’19
Photograph courtesy of Harvard Athletic Communications
Late winter and early spring highlights
Seth Towns ’20, the Ivy League Player of the Year, scored a game-high 24 points in the Crimson’s 74-55 victory over Cornell in the Ivy tournament semifinals.
Photograph courtesy of Harvard Athletic Communications
The basketball teams fall short of the NCAAs.
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Dr. Abramson, Dr. Hawking, and the wand
Photograph courtesy of David H. Abramson
A close call on Commencement day
David Davidson
Photograph by Stu Rosner
A dining executive on Harvard’s changing food environment
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Jim and Deb Fallows in his hometown, Redlands, California
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James and Deborah Fallows explore “what the hell is happening in America.”
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