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A winter soupmaking workshop

Bucolic Powisset Farm has a strong Community Supported Agriculture program

Bucolic Powisset Farm has a strong Community Supported Agriculture program.

by Nell Porter-Brown

Photograph © Collection of Historical Scientific Instruments, Harvard University

Harvard exhibit traces explorers from the fourteenth to the nineteenth centuries

A new exhibit traces navigation by mariners from the fourteenth to the nineteenth centuries.

by Nell Porter-Brown

William Stoughton, c. 1700. Oil on Canvas. Harvard University Portrait Collection, Gift of John Cooper to the Harvard College, 1810, H37.

Harvard’s collection of early American paintings

Harvard’s collection of early American paintings are mostly portraits, all men.

by Stephanie Garlock

Head coach Tommy Amaker says that to win Harvard’s fifth straight conference title, his players must “rely on each other.”

Harvard men's basketball season

Pursuing another Ivy championship, the men’s basketball team finds new challenges.

by David L. Tannenwald

The Currier Museum of Art

Things to do and places to go eat in Manchester, New Hampshire

Things to do and places to go eat in Manchester, New Hampshire

Manchester’s old mills still form the heart of the city.

Art, history, and eclectic restaurants in Manchester, NH

Art, history, and eclectic restaurants—less than an hour away

by Nell Porter-Brown

Globalization’s benefits flow unevenly to a garbage collector in Allahabad, India, and a call-center worker in Bangalore.

Harvard’s Eric Maskin and Michael Kremer look at globalization and inequality

Modeling how globalization leaves the least-skilled workers behind

by Stephanie Garlock

A special notice regarding Harvard Commencement procedures

Guidelines from the Commencement Office

Illustration by Mark Steele

Headlines from Harvard history, March-April 1920-2000

From the pages of the Harvard Alumni Bulletin and Harvard Magazine

Algebra, a high-wire act for math phobics, is here rendered clearly, amusingly, and memorably.

Recent books with Harvard connections

Recent books with Harvard connections

From <i>Dark Victory</i>

Schlesinger Library Movie Night is Dark Victory with Bette Davis

The pick for Schlesinger Library Movie Night is Dark Victory

by Nell Porter-Brown

&ldquo;Our main procedure in palliative care is difficult communication,&rdquo; says professor of psychiatry and medicine Susan Block.

A brief status report on palliative care

A brief status report on palliative care