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At Home with Harvard: Health and Fitness

At Home with Harvard: Health and Fitness

Read some of our extensive coverage on breakthrough health and wellness research.

Harvard Will Guarantee Staff Pay and Benefits Past June 28

“[W]e will not be pursuing any furloughs or layoffs of our employees at this time,” executive vice president Katie Lapp wrote in an email. 

by Marina N. Bolotnikova

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2020 Harvard Medalists

For extraordinary service to the University

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Excerpt from Marjorie Garber, “Character: The History of a Cultural Obsession”

Marjorie Garber explores the word’s complexity and history.

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The Undergraduate faces life without handrails

The Undergraduate faces up to a postgraduate life without handrails.

by Julie Chung

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Harvard Commencement 2020

Details of the virtual degree-conferral ceremonies

by John S. Rosenberg

Letters from our readers

Health care, St. Louis, pioneering astronomer

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A World War II love story from the Schlesinger Library archives

A wartime life together—cut short

by Blythe Grossberg

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Profile of comedian Karen Chee

Comedian Karen Chee finds her voice.

by Jacob Sweet

Bill Clinton with Yasser Arafat, King Hussein, and Benjamin Netanyahu, October 1, 1996, at the White House

Nicholas Burns on diplomacy’s role in fostering U.S. standing in the world

On restoring American leadership through diplomacy

by Nicholas Burns

Harvard “net-zero” climate-change policy

The University adopts a new goal for managing the endowment.

by Marina N. Bolotnikova , John S. Rosenberg