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At last, an opportunity for the coronavirus-affected classes to proceed into Tercentenary Theatre and partake of the festival rites
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The coronavirus short-circuited their Commencement. Harvard plans a do-over.
University Hall, home to the Faculty of Arts and Sciences leadership
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The Faculty of Arts and Sciences’ annual report portrays a good foundation for its academic future.
Claudine Gay, dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences
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Post-pandemic, Harvard’s core faculty embraces new paradigms to adapt academically.
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Newly elected members include a dozen Harvard faculty affiliates.
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
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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
Harvard Yard
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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
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Evoking Horton Hears a Who
Photograph courtesy of Springfield MuseumsArt, science, sports—and fanciful holiday lights—in the Connecticut River Valley
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
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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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Stuart Little, with hat and cane. The idea of a mouse being "born" into a human family proved controversial in 1945. In later additions, he merely "arrived."
Photograph courtesy of Houghton Library; Illustration by Garth Williams
“Animals Are Us” contextualizes Houghton’s new treasures.
spalding as "Iphigenia of the Open Tense" in production previews at MASS MoCA
Photograph by Jon Fine
Two jazz legends collaborate on an operatic reimagination of a Greek tragedy.
During her Norton Lectures, Laurie Anderson sometimes dances with herself or plays a violin of her own invention.
Screenshot by Lily ScherlisArtist Laurie Anderson delivers her fifth virtual Norton Lecture on Wednesday.
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The Conquering Hero: Harvard quarterback Luke Emge was only 14-for-32 passing but was at his best at crunch time, leading the Crimson to their last-minute, go-ahead score.
Photograph by Angela Dela Cruz/The Harvard CrimsonHarvard wins The Game in emphatic fashion.
Touchdown strut: Leaving Penn's Matthew McElroy in his wake, Harvard's Aaron Shampklin gambols toward the end zone on a 72-yard jaunt. Shampklin later put the game away with a 16-yard smash up the middle.
Photograph by David Dermer/courtesy of Harvard Athletic Communications
The Crimson wins, keeping title hopes alive.
Mason and McKenzie Forbes
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Mason and McKenzie Forbes work together on and off the court.
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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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