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fencers celebrate a championship win

Harvard fencing squad update

How Harvard fencers won an Ivy championship

by Jacob Sweet

Photograph of Susan Murphy

Susan Murphy

Portrait of a hockey-playing statistician—from Louisiana

by Lydialyle Gibson

Photograph of Lawrence S. Bacow

The View from Mass Hall

President Bacow on encountering—and coming to terms with—COVID-19

by Lawrence S. Bacow

Margaret Mee painting of yellow trumpet tree

Rainforest flora images by Margaret Mee

Botanical bounty at Dumbarton Oaks

by John S. Rosenberg

The Chelsea Theatre building

Artistic director Joshua McTaggart and the redesigned Chelsea Theatre

Joshua McTaggart leads London’s Chelsea Theatre into a new era.

by Olivia Munk

Posthumous portrait of astronomer Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin looking up and through a window, echoing Vermeer’s painting “The Astronomer”

Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin

Brief life of a breakthrough astronomer: 1900-1979

by Donovan Moore

Photographs of Harvard and Radcliffe would-be honorands Martin Baron and Melinda Gates

Baron and Gates at Commencement, a lawsuit renewed,

Baron and Gates planned at Commencement, new Corporation member, a lawsuit renewed, and more

Children play outside while a homeschooled child watches through a window

What rights do children have in homeschooling?

Elizabeth Bartholet highlights risks when parents have 24/7 authoritarian control over their children.

by Erin O’Donnell

Harvard students in caps and gowns enjoying Commencement

Harvard’s Virtual Commencement

Harvard’s 369th Commencement goes virtual.

Birder David Barrett pictured at Central Park

David Barrett reports on New York City’s birds

A quest to chronicle New York City’s avian community

by Nell Porter-Brown

Photograph of swimming hole cut in ice

Rebecca Henderson, “Reimagining Capitalism” to save the planet

The Business School’s Rebecca Henderson reimagines capitalism to save the planet.

Harvard athletic season canceled

A necessary but brutal blow