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Maksim Korolev running last fall in the NCAA Cross-Country Regionals at Van Cortlandt Park in the Bronx

Distance runner Maksim Korolev has set Harvard and Ivy records.

Distance runner Maksim Korolev has set Harvard and Ivy League records in cross-country and track.

Melissa Franklin and Logan McCarty in the SciBox, an experimental learning space they designed

Harvard instructors experiment with hands-on learning

Instructors experiment with hands-on learning.

In his Cambridge studio, Childs makes about six violins a year.

Bob Childs makes world-class violins

Bob Childs makes world-class violins.

by Laura Levis

Class notes and obituaries for May-June 2014

Harvard alumni may sign in to view class notes and obituaries.

Joseph Conrad in 1916. In the background, ships entering the Suez Canal, circa 1888-90: harbingers of globalization

Maya Jasanoff sees uses of fiction in study of history

Historian Maya Jasanoff says fiction can capture the subjective experience of the past.

by Craig Lambert

Shared Interest Group events during Commencement week

Shared Interest Group events during Commencement week

Karen Gordon Mills and Kenneth I. Chenault

New Harvard Corporation members, College tuition and admission, more

Two new Corporation members, College tuition and admissions, Allston teaching spaces, and more

The inscription below this bust of Vidyasagar quotes Rabindranath Tagore: “The chief glories of [his] character were neither his compassion nor his learning, but his invincible manliness and imperishable humanity.” The presence of a garland speaks to the reverence many still feel for the man.

Brief life of Indian reformer Ishvarchandra Vidyasagar, by Brian A. Hatcher

Brief life of an Indian reformer: 1820-1891

by Brian A. Hatcher

Photograph by Jim Harrison

Commencement week calendar

Commencement week calendar

Photograph by Christopher S. Johnson

What mortarboards hide, and news of centenarian Clarence M. Agress

On the uses of mortarboards, and a centenarian’s update

President Drew Faust

Harvard president Drew Gilpin Faust on the value of basic research

A letter from President Faust