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The University’s COVID-19 vaccine mandate takes effect December 8.
A 33.6 percent return on endowment investments, as expense controls and donor support buoy the budget in an unprecedented year
Group finds that tenure is not broken but can use improvements.
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A sample of Physarum polycephalum sends out slimy, finger-like tendrils to sense information about its petri dish environment.
Image courtesy of Nirosha Murugan, Levin lab, Tufts University, and Wyss Institute at Harvard University
A seemingly primitive creature’s complex ability to detect mass from a distance.
Illustration by John Tomac
Home prices are a bellwether of efficient spending in local schools
Illustration by Taylor Callery
Rather than shutting down turbines, China can harness surplus wind energy to make “green” hydrogen fuel and industrial chemicals.
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The Undergraduate returns to student life, altered by the pandemic and a year spent apart.
Fariba Mahmud and Courtney Rabb
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Enriching life at the Houses
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A recent graduate visits Harvard during a semi-normal semester
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Carolyn Gold intended her book to be a resource for other brain-injury patients.
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Alumna Carolyn Gold on finding a “new self” after West Nile encephalitis
Jason Bouldin in his studio
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Jason Bouldin makes the intangible tangible.
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Elisabeth Sharp McKetta ’01 finds truth in the border between fact and fiction.
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Evoking Horton Hears a Who
Photograph courtesy of Springfield MuseumsArt, science, sports—and fanciful holiday lights—in central Massachusetts
From left: V (formerly Eve Ensler), Idina Menzel, and Diane Paulus
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Harvard’s Diane Paulus brings climate change to center stage
The 1850 former arsenal that now houses the armory museum
Photograph by Stan Tess/Alamy Stock Photo
Springfield Armory National Historic Site
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Risky entanglements in the political arena—and the potential for major new academic investments
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Reginald Dwayne Betts performs Felon: A play; A discourse during a virtual lecture at the Harvard Graduate School of Design.
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Poet and lawyer—and MacArthur “genius”—Reginald Dwayne Betts on art and imprisonment
Emily Broad Leib at Cambridge’s Pemberton Farms
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Emily Broad Leib combats wasted food worldwide.
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First aid: Helped by the block of wideout Kym Wimberly (1) on Lafayette defensive back Shaikyi Hannah, Harvard running back Aidan Borguet churns goalward. Borguet piled up 169 yards and scored twice.
Photograph by Mairead B. Baker/The Harvard Crimson
The Crimson men overpower Lafayette.
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Over the goal: Harvard junior running back Aaron Shampklin eludes the desperate lunge of Cornell's Kenan Clarke to score the clinching touchdown. It was Shampklin's second score of the day and sixth of the season.
Photograph by Angela Dela Cruz
Harvard remains undefeated with a win over Cornell.
Big leg: A master of placement as well as power, Sot led the Ivies in punting in 2019 with a 42.3-yard average, highlighted by an almost surreal 76-yard boot against Holy Cross.
Photograph by Gil Talbot/Harvard Athletics Communications
Jon Sot “flips the field” and the Crimson excel early.
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Richard Lewontin, Richard Zeckhauser, diplomatic security, diverse inclusion, and admissions agita lampooned
(1) Carnations. (2) Gillyvors.
Perdita: The fairest flower o' the season
Are our Carnations and streaked Gillyvors,
Which some call Nature's bastards
Winter's Tale, Act IV, sc. 4
(3) Willow.
Queen: There is a Willow grows aslant a brook,
That shows his hoar leaves in the glassy stream.
There on the pendent boughs her coronet weeds
Clamoring to hang, an envious sliver broke.
Hamlet, Act IV, sc. 7Artwork by Rosa M. Towne and photograph by Edward Tabor
The discovery of Rosa M. Towne’s paintings in the Harvard Botanical Museum
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The Bits the Bible Left Out
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