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A better way to reduce gun violence

David Hemenway advocates a pragmatic, public-health-based solution to gun homicides and suicides.

by David Hemenway

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Sexual-misconduct survey results, athletics director to retire

Sexual-misconduct survey results, and the athletics director to retire

by Jonathan Shaw

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Harvard graduate students go on strike

HGSU-UAW members go out on strike two days before reading period. 

by Marina N. Bolotnikova

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Harvard Squared Roundup

Opportunities for self-improvement, and fun, at and around Harvard

by Kara Baskin

Photograph of Peter Ashton and field team in Borneo

Dipterocarp and shuttle derring-do, and more

Trekking, shuttling, and semi-friending

by Primus VI

Historic photograph of President Lyndon Johnson meeting with impoverished Fletcher family in Kentucky in 1964

Excerpt from Jeff Madrick, “Invisible Americans”

The world’s richest nation tolerates “basically the highest child poverty rates in the developed world.”

Photograph: With Yale’s Melvin Rouse II in vain pursuit, Harvard’s Aidan Borguet heads for the goal line.

Harvard football season wrap-up

Dreadful defeats—and a heartbreaking Game—produced the Crimson’s first losing season of the century.

by Dick Friedman

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Headlines from Harvard’s history

Headlines from Harvard’s history

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Systems biology helps develop a promising diagnostic

A potential “paradigm shift” in developing new diagnostic tests in mental health

by Erin O’Donnell

Harvard Mount Washington cabin in the snow

The Harvard Cabin on Mount Washington

The Harvard Mountaineering Club’s Mount Washington cabin

by Nell Porter-Brown

Portrait photograph of mathematician and author Francis Su

Francis Su, “Mathematics for Human Flourishing,” review by Jacob Barandes

Teaching and learning math as a human endeavor

by Jacob Barandes

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Harvard alumni pioneer new journalism models

New models for newspaper journalism in the Internet era

by Mark Travis