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Protesters march holding signs in a public square with buildings and trees in the background.

Harvard Graduate Workers Begin Strike

In the second walkout in six months, union leaders call for better pay and benefits and a stronger grievance process.

by Lydialyle Gibson

Humans lack a mouse’s high tolerance for bacteria in the bloodstream, a clue that the two species have evolved very different responses to inflammatory disease.

Mouse model doesn't work for human inflammatory diseases

Mice don't work as model organisms for human burns, blunt trauma and infection.

by Elizabeth Gudrais

Scientists Test Effect of Human Gene in Mouse

Scientists probe the function of a human gene by observing its effects in a mouse.

This posthumous 2007 portrait, by Stephen Coit ’71, M.B.A. ’77, was commissioned by the Harvard Foundation four decades after Monro left Harvard for Miles College.

John U. Monro, activist educator, by Toni-Lee Capossela

Brief life of an uncommon educator: 1912-2002

by Toni-Lee Capossela

Harvard's William Julius Wilson and others on long-term unemployed

Paths toward employment for low-income blacks and Latinos

by James M. Quane , William Julius ... , Jackelyn Hwang

Randall Kennedy at the table where he does his research in the reading room of Harvard Law School’s Langdell Library

Harvard Law School professor Randall Kennedy studies race

Randall Kennedy probes the “variousness” of charged racial issues.

by Craig Lambert

A rendering of the Giant Magellan Telescope in operation in Chile, deploying the lasers for its adaptive-optics system

The Big Science of Building a Giant Telescope

Harvard professors are among those building the Giant Magellan Telescope, with hope for new discoveries. 

by John S. Rosenberg

Annie Ryu, Jenny Ye, and Dalumuzi Happy Mhlanga

Harvard class of 2013: stellar seniors

A glimpse into the class of 2013

by Nell Porter-Brown

Nancy Sinsabaugh and Salmagundi proprietor Jessen Fitzpatrick display the “ladies top hat.”

New top hats for ladies at Harvard Commencement

New top hats for women appear at Commencement

by Nell Porter-Brown

Photograph by Jon Chase/Harvard News Office

Commencement and reunion week 2013 at Harvard

Commencement and reunion week 2013 at Harvard

Harvard 2013 Commencement details

Instructions for degree candidates and others