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  Harvard prepares for yet another pandemic-influenced spring term.
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  The Omicron Semester
  
  Harvard prepares for a pandemic-influenced spring term.
  
  1.18.22
  
  Srikant M. Datar, HBS’s eleventh dean
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  Harvard Business School’s Bold Agenda
  
  Dean Datar on the future of business and society in a digital era
  
  1.12.22
  
  Overseer and Elected Director Slates Announced
  
  Harvard alumni can vote on governing-board nominees beginning April 1.
  
  1.10.22
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  Conceptual illustration of neural networks in the human brain.
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  Epstein-Barr Virus Implicated as Cause of Multiple Sclerosis
  
  Harvard researchers uncover powerful association between EBV and MS, raising hopes for prevention or a cure.
  
  1.13.22
  
  Illustration by Blair Kelly
  
  Thank the Rich for Low Rates?
  
  High savings rates among the wealthiest U.S. earners may represent a macroeconomic risk
  
  January-February 2022
  
  Illustration by Eva Vazquez
  
  Will Cities Survive Another Pandemic?
  
  Inequities threaten the long-term health of cities
  
  January-February 2022
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  Noah Kirkwood
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  Harvard Basketball Star Noah Kirkwood’s Mid-Season Pivot
  
  In an injury-filled season, Harvard’s best player assumes a new role.
  
  1.11.22
  
  Jason Bateman and Jennifer Garner
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  Jason Bateman and Jennifer Garner Named Hasty Pudding Man and Woman of the Year
  
  The parade, roasts, and performances return to Harvard Square.
  
  1.6.22
  
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  Campus, Interrupted
  
  The Undergraduate returns to student life, altered by the pandemic and a year spent apart.
  
  November-December 2021
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  Overseer and Elected Director Slates Announced
  
  Harvard alumni can vote on governing-board nominees beginning April 1.
  
  1.10.22
  
  Harvard Forward Won’t Contest 2022 Overseers’ Election
  
  A “pause” after winning four seats in recent elections
  
  12.14.21
  
  Drew Faust chaired the committee on principles for de- or renaming.
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  Harvard Articulates Principles for “Denaming”
  
  Faust-led committee addresses building and professorship naming decisions “profoundly antithetical” to present values.
  
  12.9.21
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  January-February 2022
  
  The impressive two-tiered modern interior of the Armenian Museum of America
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  “Armenian creativity, culture, and survival”
  
  A museum reflects an ancient civilization and the modern global diaspora.
  
  January-February 2022
  
  View of the exhibit “Candice Lin: Seeping, Rotting, Resting, Weeping”
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  A Post-Plague Outpost
  
  Candice Lin’s otherworldly refuge
  
  January-February 2022
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  Robert E. Lee in repose at Washington & Lee University
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  Harvard and the Cult of Robert E. Lee
  
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  1.5.22
  
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  12.8.21
  
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  January-February 2022
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  12.8.21
  
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  Border Crossing
  
  Author Rudy Ruiz carries on his Mexican-American family’s storytelling tradition.
  
  January-February 2022
  
  Graphic illustrations helped sensationalize the case.
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  January-February 2022
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  Harvard Basketball Star Noah Kirkwood’s Mid-Season Pivot
  
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  1.11.22
  
  Bulldog Backbreaker: Wideout Kym Wimberly hauls in Luke Emge’s third-down, last-seconds, no-timeouts pass to secure Harvard’s thrilling 31-27 victory in The Game.
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  Harvard Football's Stolen Ivy Title
  
  The Crimson's final win should have clinched an Ivy championship.
  
  January-February 2022
  
  The Conquering Hero: Harvard quarterback Luke Emge was only 14-for-32 passing but was at his best at crunch time, leading the Crimson to their last-minute, go-ahead score.
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  Football 2021: Harvard 34, Yale 31
  
  Harvard wins The Game in emphatic fashion.
  
  11.21.21
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  1.5.22
  
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  January-February 2022
  
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  January-February 2022
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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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