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Harvard May Avoid FY 2021 Operating Loss Despite Pandemic
Reduced expenses offset declines in revenue for FY 2021, helping Harvard avoid the layoffs that have eliminated one in eight jobs within higher education.
Harvard to Launch Quantum Science and Engineering Ph.D. Program
Renovation of 60 Oxford Street will create a quantum hub where theorists and engineers work side by side.
A Net-Zero-Energy Victorian Home Makes History
HBS alumna Betsy Harper develops the first net-zero-energy, Victorian “passive house” in the world.
Kevin Young Addresses Harvard Alumni Association
The acclaimed poet and director of the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture will speak at the annual meeting on June 4—and other graduation-week speakers are announced.
Harvard pilots in-person teaching for fall
Faculty of Arts and Sciences tests hybrid classrooms and other pandemic adaptations.
Harvard Alumni Medalists Announced
Alumni Association announces Harvard Medalists.
Where to Gift Your Grad
They've got the mortarboard—now support these worthy brick-and-mortars.
Alexander Gassel retrospective at the Museum of Russian Icons
A blend of Russian Orthodox iconography and mythical motifs
Rapid Tests, in Time for Fall Surge
Rapid COVID-19 tests, of the kind that Michael Mina has been advocating since last year, are finally approved for home use.
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