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A flier for Heat Week
Students, faculty, and alumni urge the ditching of corporations linked to climate change.
Photograph by Tommy LaVergne/Rice University
Currently dean of the Rice University School of Architecture, Whiting will assume her new post on July 1.
Alan Gilbert ’65, Ph.D. ’74 (twice suspended, separated, and readmitted in 1973 by a two-thirds faculty vote) speaks at a gathering of current and former student activists three days before Friday’s conference.
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A conference looks back at Harvard’s 1969 student strike.
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Illustration by Robert Neubecker
What the rare bright spots in American high-school education teach
Illustration by Dave Cutler
Corporate reports contain clues to predicting a firm’s future performance.
Illustration by David Plunkert
Ben Green warns against simple technological solutions for complex problems.
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After missing the first few games of the 2019 season with a concussion, Skinner has been among the Ivy League leaders in on-base percentage.
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For speedy center fielder Ben Skinner, slowing down is key.
Red Rocks Conservation Area, in Gloucester, Massachusetts
Photograph by Vladislav Sevostianov
Rock climbing in Greater Boston—and beyond
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A flier for Heat Week
Students, faculty, and alumni urge the ditching of corporations linked to climate change.
The author’s father, Noah Gibson, playing fiddle with friends at an Irish music session
Photoraph courtesy of Lydialyle Gibson
A personal story about caregiving and empathy
Alan Gilbert ’65, Ph.D. ’74 (twice suspended, separated, and readmitted in 1973 by a two-thirds faculty vote) speaks at a gathering of current and former student activists three days before Friday’s conference.
Photograph by Lydia S.C. Rosenberg/Harvard Magazine
A conference looks back at Harvard’s 1969 student strike.
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Seafood ceviche at Celeste, in Somerville
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An eclectic array of favored restaurants in Greater Boston
Red Rocks Conservation Area, in Gloucester, Massachusetts
Photograph by Vladislav Sevostianov
Rock climbing in Greater Boston—and beyond
Woman Running to Escape a Sudden Shower, c. 1765-70, by Suzuki Harunobu
Image courtesy of the Harvard Art Museums ©President and Fellows of Harvard College.Harvard’s enticing Japanese woodblock prints
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Lawrence S. Bacow
President Bacow on friendships formed among and between scholars and students
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Her book Amity and Prosperity: One Family and the Fracturing of America is the choice in general nonfiction.
Jocelyn and Chris Arndt, siblings from Fort Plain, New York, balanced a full-time tour schedule and undergraduate life.
Photograph courtesy of Shore Fire Media
For two Harvard siblings, studying and songwriting went hand in hand.
Accidental comics writer Amy Chu
Image courtesy of Amy ChuGraphic novelist Amy Chu
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Red Rocks Conservation Area, in Gloucester, Massachusetts
Photograph by Vladislav Sevostianov
Rock climbing in Greater Boston—and beyond
Noah Kirkwood ’22, the Ivy League Rookie of the Year, emerged as one of Harvard’s top offensive threats.
Photograph by Gavin Baker/Sideline Photos
Basketball teams fall short of NCAAs again.
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Illustration by Mark Steele
Demonstrating for equality…and other headlines from Harvard’s history
After graduating from the College in 1861, Holmes obtained a commission as first lieutenant in the Twentieth Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry, known as the “Harvard Regiment.”
Photograph courtesy of the Harvard Law School Library, Historical & Special Collections
A new biography of Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. illuminates the Supreme Court during the centennial of his most momentous dissent.
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Poster courtesy of Dumbarton Oaks Archives Ephemera Collection (AR.EP.PS.0669)Resesarchers’ lengthy labors, “Diploma Riots,” supporting young scholars
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May-June 2019
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Could inflammation be the cause of myriad chronic conditions?
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The Watchers
Assaults on privacy and security in America threaten democracy itself.
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Lessons from an Unexpected Life
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Undergoing a PET scan: the photograph of Ken that accompanied a New York Times article on new anticancer drugs
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Ken’s Story
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