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  8.3.20
  
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  Balancing Mental Health and COVID Safety
  
  Students urge closer attention to care on campus this fall.
  
  7.30.20
  
  First-Year International Students Won't Be Allowed on Campus This Fall
  
  Federal visa restrictions will prevent freshman international students from living in the United States.
  
  7.21.20
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  Could COVID-19 Transform U.S. Education?
  
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  7.29.20
  
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  7.23.20
  
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  7.15.20
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  Harvard and MIT Sue to Overturn Order Banning International Students from Online Learning in Residence
  
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  7.8.20
  
  Harvard Single-Gender Social-Club Rules Rescinded
  
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  6.30.20
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  7.17.20
  
  Philip Caruso, J.D-M.B.A '19, helped coordinate the military's response to COVID-19 in New York.
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  Harvard affiliates aid the Defense Department's response to COVID-19 in New York.
  
  7.13.20
  
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  7.7.20
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  Greater Boston’s Season of “Social Trust”
  
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  July-August 2020
  
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  July-August 2020
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  A statue of John C. Calhoun is removed on June 24 in Charleston, South Carolina.
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  6.29.20
  
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  July-August 2020
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  7.8.20
  
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  July-August 2020
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(Click on arrow at right to view full image) No true likeness of Callimachus is known to exist, but the Libyan-born poet probably resembled the men whose faces appear on the Hellenistic coffins unearthed in Fayum, Egypt, including this one.
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The Progress of the Disciplines

Leading professors on the future of their fields

September-October 2011

Pamela Silver

Pamela Silver

Photograph by Jim Harrison

Sidebars:

Pamela Silver

Biology in This Century

An ancient science becomes the new technology.

Educating Business Leaders for a Global Century

Preparation for international practice

Helen Vendler

Reading Is Elemental

How to preserve the humanities

Cherry A. Murray

Engineering in the Twenty-First Century

A question of convergence

Edward L. Glaeser

Sciences Still Young

Better data, the rise of real experiments, and interdisciplinary advances in the social sciences

For Harvard’s 375th anniversary, leading professors predict the future of their fields:

Biology in This Century, by Pamela A. Silver

Educating Business Leaders for a Global Century, by Nitin Nohria

Reading Is Elemental, by Helen Vendler

Engineering in the Twenty-First Century, by Cherry A. Murray

Sciences Still Young, by Edward L. Glaeser

Sidebars:

Pamela Silver

Biology in This Century

An ancient science becomes the new technology.

Educating Business Leaders for a Global Century

Preparation for international practice

Helen Vendler

Reading Is Elemental

How to preserve the humanities

Cherry A. Murray

Engineering in the Twenty-First Century

A question of convergence

Edward L. Glaeser

Sciences Still Young

Better data, the rise of real experiments, and interdisciplinary advances in the social sciences

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