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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy speaks at the Harvard Kennedy School.
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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy speaks at the Harvard Kennedy School.
Lawrence H. Summers at the lectern next to his official portrait
Photograph by Stu Rosner
Unveiling the official portrait of the twenty-seventh president
Augustin Pajou (French, 1730–1809), Diomède assailli par les Troyens, son écuyer tué à côté de lui (Diomedes Assaulted by the Trojans, His Horseman Killed at His Side), 1756. Black ink, gray wash, black chalk, and red wash. 59.3 × 84.8 cm. Musée du Louvre, Departement des Arts graphiques, RF 40437, TL42421.2.
Image: © Musée du Louvre, Dist. RMN-Grand Palais/Martine Beck-Coppola/Art Resource, NY.
“Dare to Know” exhibition highlights nuances in the age of reason.
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Winokur Family Hall, scene of the celebratory science symposium that marked the launch of the Kempner Institute for the Study of Natural and Artificial Intelligence at Harvard University.
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Launching Harvard’s Kempner Institute
More than 5,000 years ago, Caucasus hunter-gatherers from the highlands between the Black and Caspian Seas traveled west to Anatolia and north to the steppe, splitting their Proto-Indo-European language into two branches. From the steppe, their Yamnaya horse-herder descendants spread their language and genes into daughter languages and cultures across Eurasia. Border colors indicate the geographic origins of five source populations before their migrations (shown by correspondingly colored arrows), while the pie charts show the post-migration admixtures in these regions.
Figure reprinted with permission from I. Lazaridis et al., Science 377:939(2022).
Ancient DNA sheds new light on the origins of a lingua franca.
The rewilded planter in front of Harvard's Museum of Natural History
Photograph by Kristina DeMichele/Harvard Magazine
Bringing native plant species back to campus.
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At Freshman Convocation, the class of 2026 banner is unfurled for the first time.
Photograph by Lydialyle Gibson/Harvard Magazine
Speakers’ remarks reflect the urgencies of a turbulent time.
Harvard Business School
Photograph by Niko Yaitanes/Harvard Magazine
Ten percent of MBA students to receive full tuition scholarships
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Winokur Family Hall, scene of the celebratory science symposium that marked the launch of the Kempner Institute for the Study of Natural and Artificial Intelligence at Harvard University.
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Launching Harvard’s Kempner Institute
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An athlete contends with injury and identity.
Brooks Newmark ’80 with an elderly Ukrainian woman
Photograph courtesy of Brooks Newmark
Brooks Newmark ’80 evacuates women, children, and the elderly with his “Dunkirk-like fleet” of humanitarian buses.
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Opportunities for discovery this fall
Birches Over Pine (1966)
Painting courtesy of the Shelburne Museum
Exhibit at Vermont's Shelburne Museum offers beauty and vitality
The music center, sited on a bucolic hill in Groton
© Photograph courtesy of Epstein Joslin Architects
A new regional music center opens in Groton, Massachusetts.
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An athlete contends with injury and identity.
The commercial "enterprise research campus" will begin rising on the gray parcel at the center, above—but Harvard's broader strategy is not widley known.
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The Corporation’s role in communicating University strategies—and the magazine’s 125th
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Translator William Tamplin joined the Marine Corps earlier this year.
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William Tamplin, Ph.D. ’20, on the lyricism and secrecy of an Arabic literary pioneer
Wisteria in Pebble Garden at Dumbarton Oaks
Photograph courtesy of Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection
The art of conserving an historic garden at Dumbarton Oaks
Birches Over Pine (1966)
Painting courtesy of the Shelburne Museum
Exhibit at Vermont's Shelburne Museum offers beauty and vitality
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(1/4) KYM DANDY Even while in the clutches of Brown's Harrison Ochs (5), Harvard's Kym Wimberly (1) reached over the goal for his second touchdown. The senior wideout bedeviled the Brown secondary, making a game-high eight catches.
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Strong offense, vulnerable rushing defense, and painful penalties tortured Crimson fans until the last nine seconds.
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(1/4) OPENING STRETCH. Sophomore backup quarterback Charles DiPrima and his mates got limbered up for the 148th season of Harvard football.
Photograph by Dylan Goodman Photography/courtesy of Harvard Athletic Communications
Overtime theatrics, as the Crimson defense and running back Aidan Borguet pull one out.
Breakout season: All eyes will be on the Crimson's Aidan Borguet (21 in white, breaking loose against Columbia) as he steps into the lead back role. As a sophomore in 2021, Borguet was named second-team All-Ivy.
Photograph by Owen A. Berger/The Harvard Crimson
Harvard Magazine’s gridiron guru on the Crimson’s 148th season
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Prince Charles with Francis H. Burr at the 350th
Photograph by Mike Quan
The Prince of Wales’s star turn at Harvard’s 350th anniversary gala, in 1986
Wisteria in Pebble Garden at Dumbarton Oaks
Photograph courtesy of Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection
The art of conserving an historic garden at Dumbarton Oaks
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Kallaugher’s “Dark Web” (2021), published in The Economist
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Kevin Kallaugher on the art of editorial cartooning
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Nell Painter, a professor emerita of American history at Princeton, now works as an artist in Newark, New Jersey.
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Nell Painter reflects on leaving the ivory tower for art school at age 64.
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Visit the Harvard Museum of Natural History via video for a tour of its new exhibition, The Language of Color, introduced by the museum’s executive director, Elisabeth Werby, and conducted by curator Hopi Hoekstra. Then read more about the role of color in the lives of animals and plants in “Animals Speak Color,” Harvard Magazine’s November-December 2008 cover article.
