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Harvard endowment investment returns more subdued than previous two fiscal years

Early reports may preview more subdued Harvard investment returns

Drew Faust

Harvard President Drew Faust's 2012-2013 beginning of year message

Agenda for an important academic year

During ISS, students work in teams to find innovative solutions to problems faced by their communities and implement their projects in real life at the end of the program.

Harvard-run NGO develops a new generation of leaders in the Republic of Georgia

A Harvard-run NGO develops a new generation of post-Soviet leaders.

Holding their blue-trimmed class banner, sophomore class Undergraduate Council representatives Chris Smiles (at left) and Ryley Reynolds flank Catherine Katz ’13 and associate dean of Harvard College Joan Rouse. Katz first proposed a sophomore class event to administrators. Smiles and Reynolds are also members of the Harvard Alumni Association’s Building Community Committee.

Passing of color to sophomore class revived as a Harvard tradition

A Harvard tradition of passing colors down from graduating seniors to rising sophomores is revived.

Marc Hauser

Research misconduct by former Harvard professor Marc Hauser reported

Federal investigative agency reports on former Harvard psychology professor’s work

Harvard Alumni Association president Carl Muller ’73, J.D.-M.B.A. ’76 (at left), presents the Class of 2016 with its official banner during the Sanders Theatre portion of Freshman Convocation.

The Harvard College class of 2016 celebrates convocation

The Harvard College class of 2016 celebrates convocation with addresses by deans and President Drew Faust

President Faust (standing at upper right, during the singing of Hymn 27) spoke at the first Morning Prayers of the new academic year.

Harvard Memorial Church Morning Prayers

President Faust welcomes new Pusey Minister Jonathan L. Walton to Harvard’s Memorial Church.

Harvard undergraduate academic misconduct investigated

More than 100 undergraduates are under investigation for exam collaboration or plagiarism.

A Harvard undergraduate ponders "the most precious of resources"—time

An undergraduate gives herself some thinking room.

by Cherone Duggan

Photograph (c. 1935) of a fragment from a 12th–14th century Thai bodhisattva statue, along with the plasticene copy made by a pupil at the Perkins Institute who manually explored, and then copied, the hand.

Grants make Harvard Art Museums collections more accessible

The funds enabled creation of in-depth finding aids for historical materials.

Ethan Lasser

Ethan Lasser appointed curator at Harvard Art Museums

New curator brings in-gallery teaching experience to American art collection

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A Harvard undergraduate spans 2000 miles in search of a small wildflower

An undergraduate spans 2,000 miles in search of a small wildflower.

by Katherine Xue