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Harvard Professor on Printmaking

An art historian analyzes an overlooked medium.

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Newly elected Overseers and Harvard Alumni Association directors

Harvard Philosophy Professor Alison Simmons on "Being a Minded Thing"

A philosopher on perception, the canon, and being “a minded thing” 

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How Schizophrenia Resembles the Aging Brain

The search for schizophrenia’s biological basis reveals an unexpected link to cellular changes seen in aging brains.

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MAD Magazine at the Norman Rockwell Museum

An illustrative retrospective at the Norman Rockwell Museum 

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Harvard Crimson Fencers at Paris 2024 Olympics

Eight Olympics-bound Harvard fencers

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Six Decades of Computer Science at Harvard

Reflections on six decades of relations with computers

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